ECRE Weekly Bulletin – 21 August 2025

The ECRE Weekly Bulletin is a reliable source of information on the latest updates relating to migration and asylum in Europe.

📰🔍Each issue includes:

• News and views from different European countries
• Recent reports
• Upcoming events
• Open job vacancies
• Ongoing campaigns
• Calls for papers, project proposals, courses etc.

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EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENTS

• There has been an increase in the number of irregular crossings on both the Central- and Western Mediterranean migration routes.
• The International Organization for Migration has recorded at least 1,011 deaths in the Mediterranean so far in 2025.
• The Italian government has grounded a civilian rescue aircraft in the first use of a new law.
• The Greek government has submitted a legislative proposal aimed at tightening migration rules in line with the new EU Return Regulation and announced that people who are awaiting deportation will be required to wear electronic ankle tags.
• The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has blocked Greece from deporting a group of people who were detained following the recent asylum.

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NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

• The High Court has ruled that asylum applicants who are being accommodated in a hotel in Essex have to be moved out.
• The number of people who have crossed the Channel in small boats since the change of government in July 2024 has exceeded 50,000.
• One person has died trying to cross the Channel and two others have died in and around camps in northern France in recent weeks.
• The first people to be returned to France as part of the government’s ‘One in, one out’ deal have been detained.
• A large group of NGOs has signed an open letter calling on politicians to use more responsible language when discussing the recent protests outside asylum hotels.

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📑RECENT REPORTS

ECRE

• AIDA Country Report on Italy – Update on 2024
• AIDA Country Report on Malta – Update on 2024
• AIDA Country Report on Slovenia – Update on 2024
• AIDA Country Report on Türkiye – Update on 2024
• Policy Note: A Gender-sensitive Approach to Combating Human Trafficking and Support Asylum-seeking Survivors in the EU

OTHERS

• Asylum and Migration Board (TAI), Ferite di confine: La nuova fase del modello Albania
• EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA), Situational Update No 22: Overview of the Implementation of Safe Country Concepts
• EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Countering the instrumentalisation of migrants and refugees and respecting fundamental rights
• European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), 2024 Annual Report of the Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer
• Political Prisoners – Memorial, Political Prisoners and Political Repression in Russia in 2024
• Refugees Platform in Egypt and Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, The Collapse of Egypt’s Protection for Refugees: Systematic and widespread Violations of the Non-Refoulement Principle and the Right to Asylum
• Sea-Watch, Airborne Annual Report 2024
• UNICEF France, Victimes avant tout : Protéger les enfants contre l’exploitation criminelle
• United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Sea Arrivals Overview – Europe Region
• UNHCR, On the brink: The devastating toll of aid cuts on people forced to flee
• University of Oradea, Journal of Identity and Migration Studies Volume 19, Number 1 – Spring/Summer 2025
• University of Oxford, Returns of unauthorised migrants from the UK

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📅UPCOMING EVENTS

• 2 September, Brussels and Online, The EU Charter and Migration: A Joint Exploration of Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
• 10 September, Milan and Online, Training the EU Health Workforce to Improve Migrant and Refugee Mental Health Care, Zadig
• 16 September, Berlin and Online, EU-MiCare Symposium: Toward inclusive mental health care for migrants and refugees, Ethno-Medical Center (EMZ)
• 25-26 September, Rome, Mapping Irresponsibility: Externalization Policies and the Rule of Law, Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI)
• 9-10 October, Trier and  Online, Annual Conference on European Asylum and Migration Law 2025, Academy of European Law (ERA)

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📢ONGOING CAMPAIGNS

• aditus Foundation, There Are Alternatives to administrative detention
• Conversation Over Borders, Safe Homes, Not Hotels

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📝CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROJECT PROPOSALS, UNIVERSITY COURSES etc.

Call for Experts

• Share your knowledge and amplify your voice in European media!, MigraVoice

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