16 May 2014 Most people detected trying to cross irregularly an EU border in 2013 were Syrian nationals, according to the latest report by the EU border agency Frontex. 25,500 Syrians were detected trying to enter the EU irregularly, accounting for almost a quarter of...
28 March 2014 Syria is now the main country of origin of asylum seekers in the 44 industrialised countries addressed in UNHCR’s Asylum Trends 2013 report. Around 56,400 Syrians sought protection in these 44 states in 2013, which is more than double the number of...
28 March 2014 435,000 asylum applicants were registered in the EU28 last year, nearly 100,000 more asylum seekers than in 2012, according to a Eurostat report published this week. Germany, France, Sweden, Italy and the UK registered 70% of all applicants registered in...
“For asylum seekers not coming from former Yugoslavia, in Macedonia the recognition rate of refugee status is zero” Since 2001, only three people from outside of former Yugoslavia have been granted international protection in FYR Macedonia. ECRE has talked to the...
17 January 2014 On 16 January, the Belgian Constitutional Court partially annulled Belgian asylum law, in the context of an appeal brought by an alliance of Belgian refugee and human rights organisations – among others the Flemish Refugee Action, Ligue des Droits de...