EU must provide legal avenues for asylum seekers to reach the EU territory The Red Cross and Red Crescent EU office (ICRC) has published a position paper entitled ‘Legal Avenues to Access International Protection in the EU’. ICRC recommends the creation of a uniform and easily accessible legal mechanism to appeal against denial of entry to EU territory, […]

German civil society: Asylum seekers must be able to decide in which EU country they wish to apply for international protection A coalition of seven German organisations- Pro Asyl, Diakonie, the Paritärische Welfare Association,AWO, the Jesuit Refugee Service, the German Bar Association and the Neue Richtervereinigung – issued yesterday a memorandum criticising the current system for identifying the Member State responsible for examining an asylum […]

M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece: Greek authorities need to step up efforts to improve asylum system This week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe supervised the execution of the M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece judgement��and stated in its decision that the Greek authorities still need to intensify their efforts in order to execute the […]

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: Supervision of the execution Hirsi Jamaa case must continue The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe reviewed this week the steps taken by Italy to execute the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy. In this judgment, the ECtHR […]

Frontex to focus on implementation of new Eurosur border surveillance system in 2013 The Work Programme for Frontex for 2013, made public this week, outlines a number of issues that will imply changes to the allocation of the resources of the EU Borders Agency such as the implementation of the Eurosur system and the support to Greece for […]