The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum represents a complex set of rules on migration and asylum that, taken together, restrict access to asylum in Europe, lower fundamental rights guarantees for people applying for asylum in the EU and keep people in need of protection...
The ECRE Annual General Conference (AGC) 2026 will take place 09.00-18.00 on Thursday 4 June 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. Final Agenda Please see below the agendas for the six workshops: Preparing for the EU Return Regulation: Implementation challenges, legal avenues...
In autumn 2025, ECRE and its partners from across Europe conducted a study visit to Luxembourg in order to examine national practices in safeguarding the rights of self-identified asylum-seeking and refugee women and girls. Organised under the ‘Empowerment and...
ECRE expresses profound disappointment and alarm at the position adopted today (26 March) by the European Parliament on the mandate for the Return Regulation. The outcome of the vote represents a clear regression from fundamental rights standards and risks undermining...
ECRE has co-operated with the Brussels School of Governance at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) to produce a series of working papers on the possible scenarios that will follow the end of the EU Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) protection regime and its...
