UNHCR has released this week a report on asylum claims submitted in 44 industrialised countries during the first six months of 2014. Syrians remain the main applicants for asylum in industrialised countries with 48,400 claims, up from 18,900 in the same period for...
4 July 2014 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the return of an Afghan asylum seeker from Austria to Hungary under the Dublin Regulation would not violate Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on...
06 June 2014 A draft bill, presented to both chambers of the German Parliament at the end of May, aims to give asylum seekers earlier access to the labour market. If the proposal is adopted, asylum seekers will be allowed to take up employment after three months of...
06 June 2014 An amending law on appeal procedures in asylum cases entered into force in Belgium on 1 June, following a decision of the Constitutional Court of 16 January 2014 that annulled some provisions of the Belgian asylum law contained in the Aliens Act. The new...
23 May 2014 The European Commission has published its fifth Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum providing an overview of migration in the EU in 2013. Recalling the tragic events that took place off the Italian island of Lampedusa on 3 October 2013, in which more...