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...

EDITORIAL: Europe tested or what to do when the world’s most powerful country goes rogue…

30th January 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard Before the inauguration of Trump, there was a lot of discussion both inside and outside the US of strategies for managing his pending arrival. It already looks very naïve after the blitz of measures unleashed, many of them truly alarming in terms...

Training Seminar on Pact on Migration and Asylum

23rd January 2025 | News

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is organising an in-person training seminar on the legislative instruments of the Pact on Migration and Asylum on 5-6 March 2025 in Brussels. Objective The aim of this 1.5 day training seminar is to provide an...

OP-ED: The fall of the Assad regime: A time for hope but tinged with uncertainty

13th December 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Tareq Alaows, Refugee Policy Spokesperson at ECRE member organisation PRO ASYL The fall of the Assad regime in Syria is undoubtedly a historic event – one that many people in Syria and around the world experienced with mixed emotions: full of hope yet tinged with...