Europe gave 1 million Syrians fleeing war international protection. Some countries want to deport them.

Italy and Austria are pushing to recast Syria as a “safe” country, even as the bloc welcomes thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing war each year.

Michel Barnier: Everything you need to know about the new French PMโ€™s conservative politics

The new French prime minister has embraced conservative stances at home which could net him tacit support from the far right.

From โ€˜open heartsโ€™ to closed borders: behind Swedenโ€™s negative net immigration figures

Record low asylum applications โ€˜surprisingโ€™ when global displacement is at all-time high, with aid agencies blaming fear and far-right rhetoric Ten years ago the then prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt asked Swedes to โ€œopen your heartsโ€ to refugees. Now …

A Dilemma of Two Communities: How the Portuguese-speaking Countries Mobility Agreement Might be Conflicting with EU Law

  

Ana Rita Gil*, Aylin Yildiz
Noorda** & Lucas Ricardo***

 

* Professor, Law Faculty of the
University of Lisbon, Portugal. Researcher at the Lisbon Public Law. Email:
anaritagil@fd.ulisboa.pt.

** Postdoctoral Researcher at the

Russians in exile in Turkeyโ€™s Antalya face uncertain future

Some 50,000 Russians flocked to Antalya, a beach resort town in southern Turkey, since the war in Ukraine started in February 2022. But Turkish authorities have recently stopped renewing residence permits to Russians living in the country, leaving man…

Legal landmine: the risky proposition of extending the application of the EU Temporary Protection Directive beyond March 2025

  

Dr Meltem
Ineli-Ciger, Associate
Professor, Suleyman Demirel University Faculty of Law; Migration Policy
Centre Associate, European University Institute

 

Photo credit: Falin, on Wikimedia
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What should follow
once t…

Hope is like the sun: Court of Justice ruling extends right to family reunification for refugee minors

Chiara De Capitani (PhD)
is a linguist agent at the European Commission and member of Amnesty
International Belgique francophoneโ€™s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
(OSIG) coordination. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this paper
are …

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 1: the Qualification Regulation

 

Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London*

Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia
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*sentences with an asterisk have been corrected or updated since the original publication of this post. Most recently updated 14 May 2024.&n…

Take this job and shove it: the revised EU law on non-EU migrant workers

 

Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London*Text updated Dec 22 2023, to add a link to the agreed text of the Directive, and April 12 2024, on its final adoption 

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