Written by our partner Migszol, the Migrant Group Solidarity of Hungary Many people are still passing through Hungary every day, and recently the importance of Hungary as a transit country has been increasing again: there are many things happening at both the Serbian and the Austrian borders and the situation is changing quickly. Even […]
Written by the Greek Forum of Refugees, member of the Asylum Corner Network. “Crossing the Border is forcing people to pay for smugglers.” says a young woman from Syria, who has been in Idomeni for weeks now. “I am stuck in a place where people used to spend a few hours or one day […]
Written by the Greek Forum of Refugees, member of the Asylum Corner Network. The Greek Forum of Refugees considers refugees at its very centre and seeks to give voice to those forgotten. Children, women and men, human beings like the rest of us who wish to integrate into their host society and live peaceful lives. […]
In 2015, 29,925 Nigerian nationals applied for asylum in the European Union according to Eurostat figures. But “Nigeria is a democracy”, many claim, stressing it as an excuse to dismiss the need to grant the right to asylum to the Nigerians who make it to Europe. But is Nigeria really the democracy that many Europeans […]
The current European migration crisis has not left any country unscathed. Today we will focus on Belgium and in order to acquire a complete overview of the situation we interviewed Nicolas Jacobs, Deputy Director of the Legal Service of Fedasil. Fedasil represents a quite unique feature of the Belgium asylum system among the other Member […]
On Tuesday January 26th the Danish Parliament passed a bill which aims to alter the whole Danish asylum system. The reform has sparked great criticism in Europe and the United States because it includes a provision which allows the Danish State to confiscate assets from the asylum seekers hosted in the country as a payment […]
At the end of the year 2015 the European common migration policy has been dominated by the stiff conviction that, in order to solve the so called “migration crisis”, the Union should prevent them from crossing the European borders. From this perspective, the agreement signed last November 29th 2015 between the European Union and Turkey, […]
Written by Liedewij de Ruijter de Wildt, member of staff of our partner Nidos, the Dutch national organization for unaccompanied minors. Unaccompanied minors in the EU find themselves in a variety of different situations, ranging from seeking asylum or protection to being victim of trafficking, looking for a better life or in search of family […]
