The updated AIDA Country Report on Slovenia tracks recent developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. It shows that the access to the territory and to the asylum...
On 20 March the prosecutor’s office in Palermo formally called for the trial of former interior minister Matteo Salvini for kidnapping over his decision to prevent the disembarkation of more than 100 people on board the Open Arms NGO vessel in 2019. On 21 March the...
Five years after publication of the EU-Turkey statement, ECRE maintains its position that the Deal that lies behind it was unethical, illegal and unnecessary. There were alternatives at the time, such as rapid installation of a temporary protection regime, expanded...
The updated AIDA country report on France documents the most recent developments in the French asylum system, i.e. legislative and practice-related changes in the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention and content of international protection. It...
A new Council of Europe report highlights Europe’s failure to respect human rights and to save lives in the Mediterranean. This year’s death toll in the Mediterranean increases to almost 300 people, including 39 deaths following two shipwrecks off Tunisia earlier this...
