European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

The updated AIDA Country Report on Portugal provides a detailed overview of 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 providing an overview of temporary protection. A number of key developments drawn from the overview of th...

On 26 June, the European Commission (EC) published a proposal for another extension of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for people fleeing from Ukraine. If it is approved by the Council of the EU, the TPD, which was first activated in March 2022 and is currently applicable until March 2027, would be extended for a […]

European Parliament approval of the Return Regulation On 1 June, the Council of the EU (Council) and the European Parliament (EP) reached a political agreement on the ‘Regulation establishing a common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union’ (commonly known as the ‘Return Regulation’). The agreed text was approved by […]

The updated AIDA Country Report on Poland provides a detailed overview of 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 providing an overview of temporary protection. A number of key developments drawn from the overview of the ...

EU heads of state and government have held an exchange of views on the next long-term EU budget (officially called the ‘Multiannual Financial Framework’ (MFF)) 2028-2034). The discussions, which took place during the European Council (EUCO) meeting on 19-20 June, were focused on a proposal from the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU. […]