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Venue: European Parliament, room A5E3 Date: 15 November 2016 Time: 12:00-14:30 The roundtable is full for participants that do not already have access to the Parliament Co-hosted by: Carlos Coelho (EPP), Elly Schlein (S&D), Cecilia Wikström (ALDE), Judith Sargentini (Greens/EFA), and Social Platform The EU Facilitation Directive states that anyone who intentionally assists an undocumented migrant […]
On 12 July I participated in European Policy Centre’s meeting on immigration, national identity and integration. Bruce Stokes, Director of Global Economic Attitudes at Pew Research Center in the United States presented their latest study titled “Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs”. I was invited to comment on the study, […]
A European Economic and Social committee (EESC) has released a report following its delegation meeting with 180+ authorities, non-governmental organisations, refugee centres and civil society alliances actively working with refugees and migrants. It includes recommendations for regional, national and EU-level policies. The report covers eleven fact-finding country visits in European Union Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, […]
The gravest migration and humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II and other serious challenges migrants are facing all over the world have urged cooperatives in industry and services, -which are people-centred enterprises based on principles of equity and solidarity where all human beings are equal in rights-, to express their commitment to fight […]
Caritas Europa launched yesterday its report “Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection”. For the first time, this report brings together all aspects of migration. It looks at access to international protection, non-refoulement, family reunification, labour migration and irregular migration from a humane perspective. “The stench in the camps is […]
On 17 March Caritas Europa launch their report ‘Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection’ in the European Parliament. MEP Cecilia Wikström hosted the event and remarked on the timeliness of the report, as Head of States at the same time negotiated a deal with Turkey that is about ‘outsourcing […]
Ahead of a meeting of the European Council, five European ecumenical organisations have written to EU political leaders urging action on the refugee and migrant crisis. Eurodiaconia, the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), the Conference of European Churches (CEC), EU-CORD, and ACT Alliance EU call on European governments to fulfill their promises and […]
International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) statement | World Social Work Day March 15th 2016 | Vienna Social workers from 26 countries and refugee representatives met today to formulate plans that strengthen the social work response to the political crisis forcing people into displacement and refugee status. The participants formulated a five point working plan […]
In the weekend of 12-13 March, European Disability Forum’s (EDF) Board meeting took place in Amsterdam hosted by its Dutch member, Ieder(in), and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports. Representatives of organisations of persons with disabilities from all over Europe discussed, among others, the role of municipalities in implementing the United […]
Today, the 28 EU Heads of State are meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss the “shipping back of irregular migrants” from the EU to Turkey and support to Syrians under temporary protection and their host communities in Turkey. When I consider the refugee situation in Turkey I get upset at the EU’s […]
