The updated Country Report on the United Kingdom provides a detailed account of developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention and content of protection. Two new policies were introduced in relation to unaccompanied children brought by...
The news from Italy this week is of the destruction of an informal settlement, housing 1500 people and in place since 2010. There are many troubling elements of the story, and not least the nexus between migration and labour exploitation (those of us eating Italian...
An Interview with Liza Pflaum, a representative of the civil society organisation SEEBRÜCKE, which demands ‘safe harbours’ all over Europe. What is SEEBRÜCKE and how did it come about? What are your key objectives? SEEBRÜCKE, which means literally “sea bridge”,...
According to leaked internal reports of the European External Action Service (EEAS), obtained by POLITICO, EU officials were aware that some of the policies applied in the context of Operation ‘Sophia’ exacerbated the dangers of crossing the Mediterranean. While...
In a leaked African Union (AU) position paper, African States reinforce their unwillingness to host regional disembarkation platforms. The paper that was leaked during the European Union (EU) – Arab League of States (ALS) gathering in Egypt, where many of its...
