Asylum adjourned – the situation of applicants for international protection in 2020
The Asylum Information Database (AIDA) is a database managed by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) containing detailed information on asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention and the content of international protection in 23 European...
Editorial: World Refugee Day – Prevention and Perspective, Please!
UNHCR has just published its annual flagship report, Global Trends, with its analysis of global displacement. Unsurprisingly, like every year, the headline is that there are record levels of forced displacement, now at 82.4 million people, the majority internally...
Editorial: EU Asylum Agency Moving Forward and the End of the “Package Approach”?
News broke this week of an unexpected success for the Portuguese Presidency. Making progress where the Germans failed, they have persuaded the southern Member States to allow elements of the asylum reform proposals to move forward. The so-called Mediterranean 5 (soon...