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Hungary: Government Extends the “State of Crisis due to Mass Migration”*

13th September 2019 | News

On 6 September 2019, the Hungarian Government announced it would extend the “state of crisis due to mass migration” until 7 March 2020 to protect the country’s security and borders. To justify this extension, the Government referred to the 7,000 irregular border...

Asylum Decisions in the First Half of 2019: Unlocking Statistics*

13th September 2019 | News

As EU-wide figures on first instance decisions on asylum applications during the first half of 2019 are expected to be made available soon by Eurostat, national statistics on first instance decisions from selected countries covered by AIDA, managed by ECRE, illustrate...

Weekly Editorial: A Fork in the Road

30th August 2019 | News

There are changes aplenty in the EU political scene this year, some confirmed, some under negotiation. A new European Parliament and new governments in 10 Member States, meaning new players (and new games) in the Council. A common theme is the removal of the far right...

The Dublin System in the First Half of 2019*

30th August 2019 | News

The implementation of the Dublin III Regulation continues to be fraught by inefficiency and questionable compliance with legal standards, according to statistics on 15 European countries published by AIDA, managed by ECRE. Germany and France continue to be the main...

Germany: Court Finds German-Greek Bilateral Agreement Violates European Law

30th August 2019 | News

One year after Germany concluded bilateral agreements to facilitate the direct return of asylum seekers to Greece and Spain, an administrative Court ruled that the policy is in violation of European law. Although the court ordered the immediate return of an Afghan...