ECRE | European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

EDITORIAL: Do’s and really just Don’ts on Asylum and Migration

5th December 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard As the new Commission takes office, and the politics suggests darker days for asylum in Europe, ECRE suggests some Do’s and Don’ts on asylum and migration. Do… implement the law Should go without saying but in this area of law it doesn’t. The...

ECRE Comments Paper: Regulation establishing a Common Procedure for International Protection in the EU

14th November 2024 | News

ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation establishing a Common Procedure for International Protection in the EU, commonly known as the Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR). The APR was adopted in June 2024 as one of the central pillars of the reformed...

Op-ed: Does the Rome court’s refusal to validate the detention order of the first asylum seekers brought to Albania mark the end of the Italy-Albania deal?

24th October 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Andreina De Leo, member of ECRE member organisation the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) On 18 October, the Civil Court of Rome blocked the detention of 12 asylum seekers from Bangladesh and Egypt, who had been transferred to Albania under a...

Working Paper 21 – The EU-Mauritania Partnership: Whose Priorities?

17th October 2024 | News

ECRE has published a working paper on the EU-Mauritania migration partnership agreement (the ‘Partnership’) which was signed by the European Commission and the Government of Mauritania in March 2024. The working paper, entitled ‘The EU-Mauritania Partnership: Whose...

EDITORIAL: Irony Overload: Turning against the Pact

10th October 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard In a strange reversal, the most ardent proponents of the Pact are now arguing against it, while those who opposed it – ECRE included – are focusing on implementation. Chief amongst the Pact repenters is the Netherlands, futilely proposing an...