ECRE | European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

ECRE Comments Paper: Schengen Borders Code

10th March 2025 | News

ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation amending the Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders, commonly known as the Schengen Borders Code (SBC). This comments paper includes ECRE’s analysis of the changes that were...

EDITORIAL: Weaponisation of refugees in the Trump era – you ain’t seen nothing yet

27th February 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard The talk among security analysts is of the US “decoupling” from Europe but what we’ve seen goes far beyond this. It is about open hostility, and the threat of coercion, conquest, and destruction in the pursuit of an ideological agenda. Yes, there...

ECRE Comments Paper: Screening Regulation

6th February 2025 | News

ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders, commonly known as the Screening Regulation. The Screening Regulation was adopted in May 2024 as one of the central pillars of the...

OP-ED: The Christian Democrats’ Dangerous Gamble with the Far Right in Germany

6th February 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Karl Kopp and Wiebke Judith By aligning itself with the far right, so-called Alternative for Germany (AfD), to push through brazenly unlawful asylum and migration policies, Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) under Friedrich Merz are not merely undermining legal...

EDITORIAL: Europe tested or what to do when the world’s most powerful country goes rogue…

30th January 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard Before the inauguration of Trump, there was a lot of discussion both inside and outside the US of strategies for managing his pending arrival. It already looks very naïve after the blitz of measures unleashed, many of them truly alarming in terms...