Spotlight: EU Asylum Reform

CEAS: With the Pact in its final stages, the focus needs to shift to implementation and alternatives, says Catherine Woollard from ECRE.

"Now it is important to ensure that EU law is always respected at our external borders and that the CEAS reform is implemented quickly and...

Safeguarding human rights must be at the core of any discussion when talking about managing migration and its challenges.

EU’s externalisation policy is benefitting smugglers, has adverse effect for Africa’s economic and social prosperity and overlooks that 96% of African...

The Spanish presidency of the Council played an important role in the negotiations of the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum. A matter at the heart...

How the EU and its Member States are hindering civilian sea rescues and exacerbating the humanitarian disaster in the Mediterranean

The EU is preparing a new asylum compromise. But it does not really bring anything new to the table. The disappointed expectations of the citizens...

Ensuring an end to child immigration detention in Europe and globally.

The EU aims to externalise its borders and repel migrants deemed undesirable — a new deal with Tunisia assigns them a key role.

MEP Birgit Sippel on why a compromise on the new EU asylum reform is still pending and Parliament will face difficult negotiations with the Council