EU Member States have now adopted the Union Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Plan (URP) – a welcome step towards anchoring refugee resettlement at the heart of the EU’s new approach to asylum and migration. Despite this positive development, the …
ECRE and a number of its partner organisations from across Europe carried out a study visit to Stockholm, Sweden in June 2025 as part of an analysis of national practices in the protection of self-identified asylum-seeking and refugee women and girls. The …
|Published on: 23rd December 2025|Categories: News| The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is looking to recruit a Communications Assistant to assist its Communications Team for six months starting in January 2026 with the possibility of a four …
|Published on: 18th December 2025|Categories: News| The construction of fencing along Finland’s eastern border is almost complete in Lapland. The Hungarian government has filed a lawsuit against the Court of Justice of the EU over its ruling on the country …
EU and Western Balkan leaders held a high-level summit on 17 December in Brussels. The UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has hosted a meeting with her counterparts from the Western Balkans. State authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are preparing …
How would you describe yourselves and your organisation? We are young people with lived migration experience. Too often, we are (only) labelled as Young Refugees, Exiled, Migrants, Asylum Seekers, or Undocumented (YREMASUD). But before anything else, we …
ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation on standards for the qualification of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary …
How would you describe yourself and your organisation? I see myself as a candle that goes around looking for other candles that are extinguished or about to go out, to give them back the flame that will illuminate not only their path but also that of …
A recent media investigation has revealed a sharp rise in the deportation of Sudanese refugees from Egypt and highlighted criticism of the United Nations Refugee Agency’s perceived lack of action on it. The Libyan government has announced plans to step up …
By Julie Lejeune Taking stock of recent European policy developments in the field of asylum and migration, most prominently the recent Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council meeting, requires a clear head as new lows have been reached in terms of respect …
How would you describe yourself and your organisation? I’m a queer Afghan refugee and the Executive Director of the Afghanistan LGBTIQ+ Organisation (ALO), an LGBTIQ+ refugee-led organisation committed to supporting LGBTIQ+ refugees and people seeking …
The Pact for the Mediterranean has been launched at a high-level event in Barcelona. Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides has unveiled the priorities of his country’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU. A new investigation has revealed how …
ECRE and three of its member organisations have submitted a joint shadow report as a contribution to the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) baseline evaluation procedure in respect of the EU. This …
We, the undersigned civil society organisations across Europe, express deepest concern regarding the direction that discussions on the proposal for a Return Regulation are currently taking in the Council of the European Union. The compromise text prepared …
|Published on: 27th November 2025|Categories: Vacancies| The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is looking to recruit a Legal Assistant to assist its Legal Support and Litigation (LSL) Team with tasks related to the European Legal Network on …
We are proud to announce the publication of the first Caring to Include toolkit, developed to strengthen the well-being of staff and volunteers who support refugees and people seeking protection. This toolkit marks an important milestone in the project, …
The Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR) which will be applicable from July 2026 significantly reforms the procedural architecture of EU asylum law. Among its more controversial features is the mainstreaming of “safe country” concepts (i.e. safe country of …
The Handbook for Setting Up a Community of Practice is now available. It was developed within the Erasmus+ project Caring to Include and gives civil society organisations supporting refugees across Europe a clear, practical roadmap, guiding them through …
Hundreds of people have been rescued from small boats trying to reach Europe via the Atlantic migration route in recent weeks. A media investigation has accused the EU of being complicit in a crackdown on people trying to leave Senegal in order to travel …
On 11 November, the European Parliament’s (EP) rapporteur on the proposal for a Regulation establishing a common system for the return of third country nationals (TCNs) staying illegally in the Union (commonly referred to as the Return Regulation) …
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