On Thursday (25 June) our political leaders will meet in Brussels to adopt the new European Agenda on Migration. In our statement to the European Council we ask for the agenda to reflect a human rights-based approach which includes solidarity to “protect those in need”, improving safe and legal routes to enter the EU and […]
Caritas Europa calls on the European Union (EU) to stand up to its values and show the rest of the world that Europe takes human rights seriously. The European Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA Council) is meeting today [16 June] to discuss the EU Migration Agenda and to follow up from the extraordinary meeting […]
What is the Facilitation Directive? In 2002 the EU adopted a Directive to identify what is meant by facilitation of the entry, transit and residence of undocumented migrants in the EU. The Facilitation Directive (2002/90/EC) states that anyone who intentionally assists an undocumented migrant to enter or transit across the EU is breaking the law, […]
On 26-27 January the European Migration Forum took place in Brussels on the topic of ‘Safe routes, safe futures: How to manage the mixed flows of migrants across the Mediterranean’. Social Platform played an active role as moderator of one of the workshops discussing ‘A comprehensive approach to counter migrant smuggling’. Participants agreed on conclusions […]
On the occasion of International Migrants’ Day, migrants’ rights advocates from across Europe urge media, policymakers and others who have a key role in influencing public views on migration to stop using ‘illegal migrant’ and adopt accurate and neutral terms in reference to undocumented migrants. The widespread use of criminalising language impacts the daily realities […]
On November 10-11 Social Platform attended the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Conference in Rome on ‘Fundamental Rights and Migration to the EU’. Here are a few points of particular interest to Social Platform’s work on migrants’ rights in the EU: Laura Boldrini, President of the Chamber of Deputies in Italy, opened the conference with […]
A two-week EU-wide police operation, dubbed ‘Mos Maiorum’, was launched on 13 October to detect, detain and possibly deport irregular migrants. This massive control operation is extremely worrying both in terms of discriminatory stop and search practices and protecting the basic rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) condemns […]
On May 15 Social Platform participated in the European Youth Forum's (YFJ) sucessful event on multiple discrimination at the YO! Fest in Strasbourg. Here you can read the YFJ news article: 'The roundtable proved popular with around 150 people attending. It was opened with the presentation of the main findings of the survey on youth […]
Last week the Council confirmed the agreement found with the Parliament on the directive on basic payment account. This is a remarkable step in the fight against financial exclusion and in ensuring that people are not discriminated when they access services in the internal market. In particular we would like to point out four main […]
On December 11 Social Platform organized a Conference on the social dimension of the Greek EU presidency priorities that brought together a wide range of almost 100 key stakeholders including governmental representatives and Greek and EU civil society. The key messages were based on the outcomes of a Networking meeting between EU and Greek social NGOs on […]
