The British duo Massive Attack, pioneers of the trip hop genre in the 1990s who have always been sensitive to social issues, have recently started a new tour which will lead them to several cities in Europe. For the new show, the band has decided to collaborate with photographer Giles Duley, who has worked […]
On Tuesday January 26th the Danish Parliament passed a bill which aims to alter the whole Danish asylum system. The reform has sparked great criticism in Europe and the United States because it includes a provision which allows the Danish State to confiscate assets from the asylum seekers hosted in the country as a payment […]
At the end of the year 2015 the European common migration policy has been dominated by the stiff conviction that, in order to solve the so called “migration crisis”, the Union should prevent them from crossing the European borders. From this perspective, the agreement signed last November 29th 2015 between the European Union and Turkey, […]
Written by our partner Migszol, the Migrant Group Solidarity of Hungary In late October, European leaders met to discuss the crisis that EU countries are facing due to their incapacity to provide the most basic human rights to people who are seeking international protection in their territory. They agreed on a 17 points […]
Malin Björk has been a Swedish Member of the European Parliament since 2014. She belongs to the European United Left/Nordic Green Left parliamentary group and is a very active member of the Civil Liberty, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) in Parliament. A few months ago she featured in many newspaper articles for successfully […]
A photo exhibition of broken families. This is what the project “Siriani in Transito” has sought to be since the beginning. Because a broken family is the most common type of household a Syrian migrant can belong to these days. Relatives scattered all over Europe for a very simple reason, which goes by the name […]
Country of Origin Information reports are a great support for the legal experts, both lawyers and judges, dealing with asylum seekers applications – but in several cases they are not sufficient to prove and assess the truthfulness of specific claims. What happens if, for example, a Nigerian martial arts champion seeks refuge abroad because […]
Asylum Corner: As co-rapporteur of the Initiative Report for Migrations in the Mediterranean Sea at the European Parliament, what do you think about the 10 points plan presented by Commissioner Avramopoulos during the Foreign Affairs Ministries meeting in Luxembourg last April? Cécile Kyenge: It is important to point out that Commissioner Avramopoulos’ agenda looks […]
Last March, Syria entered the fifth year of the conflict that has been relentlessly tearing the whole country apart. With some four million refugees outside the Syrian borders the “Syrian Refugee Crisis” is becoming a more and more compelling issue to tackle. In spite of the continuous evolution of the conflict, which does not […]
