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...

Joint Statement: Call on the EU: Restore Rights and Values at Europe’s Borders

26th November 2021 | News

As European civil society and professional organisations working on asylum, migration, humanitarian assistance and human rights, we are shocked by the continuing humanitarian crisis at the borders between the EU and Belarus which causes immense suffering and has led...

ECRE Policy Note: A Seamless Link?

8th November 2021 | News

ECRE has published a Policy Note that demonstrates that linking asylum and return procedures generates serious human rights concerns while failing to meet the objectives stated by the European Commission. It draws on experience from national practice in Member States...

ECRE Annual General Conference 2021

2nd September 2021 | News

Annual General Conference of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) takes place on 8 and 9 December 2021 in Brussels, Belgium (Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels, Belgium). You can register for the AGC21 here  Deadline for...