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ECRE Policy Note: Tightening the Screw: Use of EU External Policies and Funding for Asylum and Migration

12th March 2021 | News

ECRE published a Policy Note which analyses the substantive changes to EU external affairs proposed by the Pact and related EU policy developments. A significant part of the not so fresh start heralded in the Pact on Migration and Asylum published last year is the...

Editorial: An Offer You Can’t Refuse: The External Dimension

20th November 2020 | News

As the Member States’ reaction to the Pact – hundreds if not thousands of requests for clarification and a redrawing of battle-lines in the two old conflicts East v West and South v North – demonstrates, any agreement on the future of asylum in Europe will be a long...

Op-ed: Externalizing brutality to Libya is not an answer to displacement

1st December 2017 | News

By Dr. Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Assistant professor, Global Refugee Studies, Aalborg University In 2015, the political meltdown that defined the European response to the global refugee crises, laid bare dilemmas long in the making. Since then, European citizens have...

EU externalisation efforts set the scene for escalation of rights violations by Libyan and Turkish Coast Guard

17th November 2017 | News

Turkish and Libyan coast guards representing key-partners for the EU on the European Agenda on Migration, are accused by search and rescue conducting NGOs of attacking refugees in distress on the Mediterranean Sea and conducting illegal pushbacks in violation of...

Commission praises progress under EU Partnership Framework– human rights organisations raise concern

23rd June 2017 | News

The Commission report published last Tuesday congratulates the progress achieved within the first year of the EU Partnership Framework on Migration. Meanwhile, a number of human rights organizations have raised strong concern. The Commission states that cooperation in...