ECRE Policy Note: Maintaining International Protection in Europe during Syria’s Transition

20th March 2025 | News

ECRE has published a policy note which provides analysis of the EU’s role in supporting transition in Syria while maintaining international protection in Europe. It supports EU coordination and guidance on the treatment of refugees from Syria in Europe and sets out...

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...