European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

The updated AIDA Country Report on Spain provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2025. It is accompanied by an annex which provides an overview of temporary protection. A number of key developments drawn from the overview of ...

A new NGO report has highlighted the impacts of Belgium’s “non-reception” policy for asylum applicants in 2025 The European Court of Human Rights has once again condemned Belgium for failing to meet the basic needs of asylum applicants.  An NGO is calling for the regularisation of undocumented people in Luxembourg. The upper house of the […]

The UK has signed a new agreement with France to prevent people from crossing the Channel in small boats. An Afghan national has become the first person to be convicted of endangering others during a sea crossing to the UK. The government has announced the closure of 11 hotels that were being used as asylum […]

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has pledged to amend a draft security law following widespread opposition to a controversial ‘repatriation bonus scheme’ for asylum lawyers. Participants in a far-right rally have repeated calls for the “remigration” of people out of Europe. An Italian employment agency has signed an agreement with two agencies in Tunisia to facilitate […]

In autumn 2025, ECRE and its partners from across Europe conducted a study visit to Luxembourg in order to examine national practices in safeguarding the rights of self-identified asylum-seeking and refugee women and girls. Organised under the ‘Empowerment and Protection of Migrant Women’ (AMAL) project between 30 September and 2 October, the visit explored the […]