ECRE | European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

EDITORIAL: EU changing of the guard: Winter (may be) coming

19th July 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds

By Catherine Woollard This week, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as President of the European Commission, following a strong showing by the EPP in the European Parliament elections last month. This completes the first and most important stages in the changeover of...

ECRE Annual General Conference 2024

17th June 2024 | News

The 2024 ECRE Annual General Conference (AGC) will take place 09.00-18.00 on Thursday 20 June 2024 in Brussels. Participation is open to both ECRE member organisations and representatives of other organisations (e.g. other NGOs, think tanks, academics, EU...

Op-ed: The EU is stretching the limits of the Temporary Protection Directive beyond 2025, but is it enough?

14th June 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Viktoryia Vaitovich Following the unprecedented EU response to the displacement from Ukraine with the triggering of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for the first time in March 2022, the generally very positive approach to a refugee crisis has now taken a...

ECRE Comments Paper: Regulation on Addressing Situations of Crisis and Force Majeure in the Field of Migration and Asylum

17th May 2024 | News

ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation on Addressing Situations of Crisis and Force Majeure in the Field of Migration and Asylum, commonly known as the Crisis Regulation. It is the second in the series of ECRE analyses of the legislation that...

ECRE Comments Paper: Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management

10th May 2024 | News

ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management. The aim of the comments paper is to highlight both the major changes from the current (Dublin) system, potential areas of legal uncertainty and legal challenges. It also includes...