Policy Note: EU Support to Afghanistan: Scoring High on Humanitarian Assistance and Low on Protection in Europe?

22nd December 2021 | News

ECRE has published a Policy Note that analyses the European countries’ practices and policy reactions to the situation in Afghanistan, with focus on access to protection in Europe, evacuations, resettlement and safe pathways to Europe. After the fall of the Afghan...

Overview of Status Quo Regarding Evacuations, Pathways to Protection and Access to Asylum for Afghans in Europe – December 2021

17th December 2021 | News

ECRE has published a document on past and current evacuation schemes available for Afghans; other pathways to protection; and the treatment of Afghan international protection applicants. The document compiles information collected from ECRE member organisations, the...

ECRE Publishes Working Paper on National Recovery and Resilience Programmes

16th December 2021 | News

This working paper is a comparative analysis of the EU Member States’ allocations of the financial resources, mix of grants and loans, they receive from the European Commission to support the COVID-19 recovery (via the so-called Next Generation EU). While the European...

ECRE Comments: EC Proposal on Emergency Measures Latvia, Lithuania and Poland

14th December 2021 | News

ECRE published its Comments on the European Commission Proposal for a Council Decision on provisional emergency measures for the benefit of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. ECRE does not support the measures proposed, which will have an adverse effect on the right to...

Editorial: Commission Proposal Leaves Little Solutions but Plenty of Contradictions

3rd December 2021 | News

As its President forewarned, the European Commission this week launched a proposal to respond to events at the EU border with Belarus. It was met with exacerbation and bafflement by journalists and fury by political groups in the European Parliament. For civil society...