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Solidarity among Member States – a numbers game

2nd February 2018 | News

Four months after the expiry of the 2015 relocation scheme organising transfers of applicants for international protection from Italy and Greece to other Member States, Germany’s Interior Ministry announced that relocations from Greece are at the final stage as almost...

OPed: Cooperation with Morocco in the EU’s African Border – a laboratory of externalization

12th January 2018 | News

By Jon Sebastian Rodriguez Forrest, Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, who visited Melilla and Nador with a parliamentary delegation at the end of 2017 The fences encircling the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only...

OPed: Israel’s plan to deport Eritreans and Sudanese to Rwanda is a wake-up call for Europeans

15th December 2017 | News

By Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD student, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program “Human Rights under Pressure: Ethics, Law and Politics”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Three weeks ago the Israeli government revealed its plan to forcibly deport Eritreans and Sudanese to a “safe...

EASO strengthens efforts to harmonize country of origin reports

15th December 2017 | News

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has extended its portfolio of Country of Origin Information (COI) with the release of two reports on Afghanistan and one on the Gambia as part of the announced intention to develop reports on “important countries of origin”...

Greek judges recommend legal restrictions to accelerate procedure on the islands

24th November 2017 | News

On 14 November 2017 the General Commission of the Greek Administrative Courts published a letter to the Ministers of Justice and Migration Policy and Directors of the Asylum Service and the Appeals Authority, containing proposals to accelerate the processing of asylum...