EU EASTERN BORDERS: Significant Increase in Arrivals via EU Eastern Borders Despite Overall Decrease in EU ― Finland Adopts Controversial ‘Pushback’ Law ― Asylum Seekers File Lawsuit Against Lithuania for Unlawful Detention ― NGO Calls for Urgent Action to Help People Trapped in ‘Death Zone’ Along Poland-Belarus Border ― Poland Asks France and Germany for Support to Secure Belarus Border

EU EASTERN BORDERS: Significant Increase in Arrivals via EU Eastern Borders Despite Overall Decrease in EU ― Finland Adopts Controversial ‘Pushback’ Law ― Asylum Seekers File Lawsuit Against Lithuania for Unlawful Detention ― NGO Calls for Urgent Action to Help People Trapped in ‘Death Zone’ Along Poland-Belarus Border ― Poland Asks France and Germany for Support to Secure Belarus Border

Preliminary data from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has revealed a 148% increase in irregular crossings of the EU’s eastern borders between January and June 2024 despite an overall decrease of 30% for the EU as a whole. The Finnish Parliament...
AIDA Country Report on Croatia – 2023 Update

AIDA Country Report on Croatia – 2023 Update

The updated AIDA Country Report on Croatia provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
AIDA Country Report on Portugal – 2023 Update

AIDA Country Report on Portugal – 2023 Update

The updated AIDA Country Report on Portugal provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
AIDA Country Report on Switzerland – 2023 Update

AIDA Country Report on Switzerland – 2023 Update

The updated AIDA Country Report on Switzerland provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an...
MEDITERRANEAN: UN Offers Condolences for Victims of Migrant Shipwrecks in Ionian Sea ― Cyprus Rejects ‘Buffer Zone Migrants’ Amid Rising Tensions Between Republic and UN ― Hellenic Coast Guard Accused of Throwing Migrants Overboard to Their Deaths ― Italian Cabinet Upholds NGO Request to Stop Sending Patrol Boats to Tunisia ― Frontex Internal Review System Actively Undermined

MEDITERRANEAN: UN Offers Condolences for Victims of Migrant Shipwrecks in Ionian Sea ― Cyprus Rejects ‘Buffer Zone Migrants’ Amid Rising Tensions Between Republic and UN ― Hellenic Coast Guard Accused of Throwing Migrants Overboard to Their Deaths ― Italian Cabinet Upholds NGO Request to Stop Sending Patrol Boats to Tunisia ― Frontex Internal Review System Actively Undermined

The International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have issued a joint statement in which they offered condolences for the victims of two recent migrant shipwrecks in the Ionian Sea....