The Tunisian coast guard has recovered 16 bodies of people attempting to reach Europe. Civilian rescuers have saved at least 899 lives in the Mediterranean but survivors are forced to be stranded at sea due to delayed permissions for disembarkation. NGOs have...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants calls pushbacks “de facto general policy in many States” and warns against state “attempts to dismiss or cover up” wrongdoing. Meanwhile, EU member states continue to apply doubtful tactics. On 10 June, UN Special...
According to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) irregular arrivals through the Western Balkan route has seen a significant increase in the first part of 2022. Meanwhile, a recent report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants...
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council is meeting today. ECRE expects the French EU Presidency to attempt to make progress on the “gradual approach” to the reform of EU asylum law that it launched at the start of its six-month Presidency and conclude an agreement...
The Interior ministers from Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Spain (Med5) fear potential increase of arrivals due to hunger sparked by food crisis and urges the European Union for “adequate mechanism of distributing migrants” rejecting solidarity can be voluntary....