In Cyprus, migrants are often at the bottom of the government’s list of priorities, suffering great hardship, social exclusion and are well below the poverty line. However, one in five of the population in Cyprus is a migrant. Out of them, most of the asylum seekers are coming from African and Arab countries, Syria in […]
This month, Volonteurope joined Social Platform and its members to develop an open letter to the College of Commissioners, arguing that Europe’s economic and political future depends on its social policy. With Europe’s ‘social emergency’ and refugee crisis as a backdrop, the Commission’s second orientation debate on social policy (which was due to take place […]
What will the President of the Commission say in his State of the Union to the European Parliament on 9 September? How is he going to steer European leadership on the current humanitarian crisis and on the social emergency in the EU? If the EU is truly to be big on big things and small […]
Having seen the inhumane way in which refugees and migrants seeking safety in Europe are being treated, EDF wrote an open letter to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker , the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, and the Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs […]
We mourn the loss of 50 lives of asylum seekers in Austria and over 200 off Libyan shore in the last 48 hours. It is a tragedy. Mainly considering that their death would have been avoided if a common European safe and legal access pathway were in place. “Fortress Europe” is steadily transforming into “Undertaker […]
As Greek authorities have no means to adequately address the needs of the tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers that keep arriving in the Greek islands of Kos, Lesvos and Chios, Caritas sounds the alarm about the bad conditions in which these people are living while waiting for the permission to move on to […]
Caritas Europa calls on the Justice and Home Affairs Council, meeting today [20 July 2015], to take a strong stand on refugees in need and approve the European Commission’s proposal to resettle 20,000 people in clear need of protection in the next two years. Resettlement is a concrete measure to efficiently diminish the numbers of people […]
Last week at the European Council on migration, European Union (EU) leaders found an agreement as their reply to tackle the crisis in the Mediterranean. The measures agreed foresee: The relocation over two years of 40,000 in clear need of international protection arriving in Italy and Greece to other member states; contrary to what was […]
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) was invited to an in camera stakeholders meeting at the European Parliament concerning the European Ombudsman’s special report on the EU Borders Agency (Frontex) regarding the implementation of a complaints mechanism in relation to fundamental rights. FRA was one of the stakeholders that attended the meeting in […]
This morning (June 24) at a press conference SOLIDAR together with the European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH), Emmaüs Europe, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Networks, European Alternatives, FEANTSA, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Doctors of the World & Migreurop launched an appeal to call upon the European institutions to put solidarity and […]
