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Majority in Dutch Parliament for Criminalising Humanitarian Missions at Sea

July 09, 2019 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the largest party in the Netherlands, wants to criminalise marine refugee and migrant rescue missions. After a call by the VVD, a small majority of parliamentarians (77 out of 150) showed support for ...
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Italy's Salvini Renews Attacks on Humanitarian Workers

March 19, 2019 • by LibertiesEU

Italy's interior minister on Monday renewed his efforts to handicap charity ships that rescue migrants off Libya and bring them to the safety of Italy. Matteo Salvini wrote on Twitter, "The ports have been, and remain, CLOSED" and his office released a...
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- Italy
- migration
EU Asylum Applications Dropped to 580,800 in 2018

March 15, 2019 • by LibertiesEU

There were 580,800 first-time asylum seekers in EU countries in 2018, a drop of 11 percent from the year before, according to figures published by Eurostat on Thursday. The majority of applicants were Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi citizens. In 2017, a total...
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Illegal Entries to EU Drop to Lowest Level in Five Years

January 07, 2019 • by LibertiesEU

The number people caught trying to enter the EU illegally has dropped to its lowest level in five years, according to the EU border agency Frontex. The agency said it registered some 150,000 illegal crossings last year, the smallest number since 2013. ...
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- Italy
- refugees
- migration
- Mediterranean
Belgium Introduces Asylum Application Quota

December 18, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The Belgian Aliens Office has introduced an asylum application quota, capping applications at 50 a day. Every day since the decision was made, queues outside the registration location have numbered more than a hundred. The most vulnerable people, such ...
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- Belgium
- migration
- quota
Bulgaria Criticized for Its Treatment of Asylum Seekers

June 29, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

A group of French lawyers will file a complaint against Bulgaria and ask the European Commission to start an infringement procedure because of the government's treatment of asylum seekers. The move was announced on 26 June by the Green/EFA group.The la...
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- migrants
- Bulgaria
- refugees
- migration
Top EU Court Says Torture Victims May Have Right to Asylum

April 25, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 24 April ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights affords protection if an asylum seeker with severe effects from past torture would be "significantly and irreversibly worsened" by the lack...
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- torture
- UK
- Court of Justice
- ECJ
France Passes Controversial Immigration Bill Passed

April 24, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

A new immigration law that tightens the rules around asylum has been approved by the French National Assembly. With the new legislation, shorter asylum application deadlines will be introduced, the time for which illegal migrants can be detained is dou...
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- immigration
- France
- law
Experts Question Belgium's Decision to Cut Refugee Reception

April 03, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organisation that defends the interests of refugees, has questioned the asylum and migration secretary's decision to continue to reduce the number of reception places for refugees. Last month, Secretary Theo F...
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EU States in New Push to Reform Migration Rules

March 09, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

A new 'zero paper' by experts working under Bulgaria's EU Presidency suggests to solve EU member states' disagreements over migration by doing away with quotas and giving more decision-making power to national governments. Reform of the Dublin Regulati...
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- EU
- migration
- Dublin