Editorial: Calm Down, Mate: Asylum in 2022
The publication of year-end statistics on asylum and migration in 2022 is creating something of a panic – and like most migration panics it’s largely manufactured for political ends. Some key figures are higher than in 2020 and 2021. The headline is that there were...
ECRE Policy Paper: Solidarity: The Eternal Problem – Recent Developments on Solidarity in EU Asylum Policies
ECRE has published a policy paper analysing developments over the last two years in the solidarity debate at the EU level. It presents the existing rules on solidarity and responsibility sharing on asylum and migration at the EU level, recent legislative proposal...
Editorial: the TPD Proved Highly Efficient in Ukraine Response – Time to Repeal it?
There is widespread consensus that the EU has responded well to the massive displacement from Ukraine and that this is thanks in no small part to the activation for the first time of the Temporary Protection Directive. Why, then, is the proposal to repeal the TPD...