The refugee camps on the Greek islands have long been overcrowded; residents are subject to precarious and insecure living conditions and lack basic services. Asylum and return procedures in the so-called hotspots are slow. The Policy Brief by the Sc (...)
This document is based on key figures from various reports published by International, European and national institutions and agencies. It is obviously not exhaustive and its main objective is to offer an overview of the migration phenomenon on a glo (...)
Over the past years, political pressure to detain and deport more migrants has led to more case law that challenges the legality of various aspects in the forced removal procedure, including the legality of detention decisions. Civil society has a si (...)
Speech given by Paris Aristotle during the "1st Australia and New Zealand Refugee Trauma and Recovery Conference - 29/31 March 2017 - Sydney (Australia)
The free movement of persons within the European Union is often the subject of debate. Preconceived ideas are deeply rooted in the collective imagination, such as the Polish plumber exploiting the directive on posted workers, or poor citizens who exe (...)
The European Union (EU) needs a bold, imaginative and workable approach to overcome fragmentation and manage refugee movements effectively in accordance with international law. This paper from the UNHCR provides a vision for how this could be achieve (...)
In the framework of the Vision Europe Summit on "Improving the Responses to the Migration and Refugee Crisis in Europe", several authors have contributed to the debate in proposing responses and solutions to address the current migratory and refugee (...)
For the Schengen cooperation 2015 was to herald its 30th anniversary, a symbolic stage in its development. As a sign of history this anniversary coincided, give or take a few days, with the start of Luxembourg's six-monthly presidency of the Council (...)
This report, entitled ‘Measures and rules developed in the EU Member States regarding integration of third county nationals’ provides a detailed comparative analysis of integration measures and schemes established in 27 member states and Norway, in t (...)
This Policy paper of Yves Pascouau, associate senior research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute and director at the EPC, proposes to create a jobseeker’s visa, based on the freedom of movement of European citizens and on the legal and technologi (...)