Editorial: Displaced Responsibilities: Finding a Wider Approach to Displacement in EU External Policies

12th March 2021 | News

When it comes to asylum in Europe, major implementation gaps remain, and violations remain unaddressed. At the same time, it is full steam ahead on the external dimension of asylum and migration policy, as ECRE’s analysis published this week shows. The publication of...

Frontex: One Investigation Closes as Another Begins and the Agency’s Role in Return and Ability to Purchase Firearms Under Scrutiny

5th March 2021 | News

European Parliament Scrutiny Working Group on Frontex starts work in the same week as the internal investigation of the Management Board delivers its report. Information of attempts to circumvent legal problems related to the purchase of firearms by relabelling them...

Editorial: Matter of Pact: Speculating on the Fate of the Pact

19th February 2021 | News

After a short initial flurry of media coverage and debate, the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum has disappeared from view, with public and political attention focused on COVID, recovery, Brexit, government changes and so on. Most independent commentators,...

Frontex Faces Another Investigation by the European Ombudsman and Legal Action for Not Suspending Operations on the Aegean

19th February 2021 | News

Following months of controversy, scrutiny and complaints over the conduct of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), the European Ombudsman has opened another investigation, this time into access to information concerning the location of agency vessels...

MEPs Vote for Respect for Human Rights at the EUs External Borders Amid Continued Revelations and Increased Scrutiny of Frontex

12th February 2021 | News

Members of the European Parliament approved a report  calling for respect for human rights at the EU’s external borders. The approval comes amid continued revelations of mismanagement and misconduct by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex and...