Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Forced Migration" produced 144 items.
| 1. Ministers to discuss asylum relocation plan | January 26, 2012 |
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Malmström says scheme will ease asylum burden; family reunification also on the agenda. A possible relocation scheme for asylum-seekers is among the controversial... |
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| 2. EU triples aid to Libyan refugees | March 3, 2011 |
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Georgieva pledges €30 million to deal with refugee crisis at Libyan border. Kristalina Georgieva, the European commissioner for humanitarian aid, announced during a... |
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| 3. EU asylum system fails those who need it the most | January 27, 2011 |
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Court ruling shows that the EU is doing too little to help vulnerable people. Greece's asylum system is in such disarray that migrants seeking protection in the European... | |
| 4. Greek asylum system in disarray | January 27, 2011 |
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Court says Belgium was wrong to return asylym-seekers to Greece. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Belgium was wrong to deport an asylum-seeker back to... |
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| 5. Lost homes and legal battles: Ethnic unmixing | November 5, 2009 |
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A look at the European experience of forced displacement since 1945. The massive 'ethnic unmixing' in Europe at the end of the Second World War left a few pockets of ethnic... |
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| 6. Lost homes and legal battles: Beneš Decrees | November 5, 2009 |
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Why have the Beneš Decrees, which legitimated the post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, surfaced so persistently as a political problem? A Czech president once... |
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| 7. Commission wants EU-wide laws on asylum process | October 15, 2009 |
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Rule changes would affect refugee claims but some member states want to water down proposals. The European Commission is expected to announce on Wednesday (21 October)... |
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| 8. Frontex 'involved' in return of migrants | September 21, 2009 |
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EU border agency denies claims by Human Rights Watch; Malta also said to have sent migrants back to Libya. The EU's border agency, Frontex, has been involved in a number of... | |
| 9. Commission wants EU-wide scheme to resettle refugees | August 27, 2009 |
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Low number of refugees accepted by EU member states prompts Commission plans for resettlement scheme. The European Commission is to call next week for the creation of an EU... |
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| 10. Moving the migrant issue is no solution | July 30, 2009 |
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Pushing the migrant situation to Libya does not solve the problem. The European Commission's pressure on Italy to report on its forced – and reportedly brutal – return... | |
| 11. Sweden must handle with care | July 16, 2009 |
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Tobias Billström, Sweden's minister for migration and asylum policy, speaks of his plans and concerns. Migration is one of the most delicate policy areas handled... |
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| 12. The long road to a common standard | July 16, 2009 |
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A common asylum system for the EU should be in place next year but is nowhere near ready. The EU's common asylum system has its roots in the war in the former Yugoslavia and... |
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| 13. UN criticises Italian, Greek asylum policies | July 14, 2009 |
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Refugee agency warns of maltreatment, failure to accept asylum applications and changes to legal system. The UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR, today (14 July) criticised... | |
| 14. No privacy, no rights, no hope? | June 11, 2009 |
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The EU faces the daunting task of trying to get Libya to take responsibility for asylum-seekers, who are forced into crowded detention centres. The dormitories in the... |
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| 15. EU set for thorny talks on asylum | June 3, 2009 |
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Commission will make new attempt to convince member states to help Italy and Malta handle claims for asylum. Immigration and asylum will top the agenda when EU interior... | |
| 16. Needed: A resettlement programme | June 3, 2009 |
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A proper resettlement programme would be good for refugees – and for the EU. Last September, the EU's member states agreed to resettle 10,000 Iraqis from Syria and Jordan... | |
| 17. Sweden wants better EU co-operation on refugees | April 16, 2009 |
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Sweden ask for other EU member states to take a greater share of refugees. | |
| 18. Call to improve rules on detaining asylum-seekers | March 14, 2009 |
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Parliament's civil liberties committee to discuss recommendations EU member states should be allowed fewer grounds for detaining asylum-seekers and should conduct faster... | |
| 19. Call for collective thinking on asylum applications | February 12, 2009 |
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Commission to proposea new support centre; campaign groups call fornational audits. The European Commission will next week propose setting up a European Asylum Support... | |
| 20. EU migration policy tested on Italian island | February 5, 2009 |
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Italians stop transferring new arrivals to mainland; human rights groups say rules are being broken. The Italian island of Lampedusa has become a symbol of the challenges... | |
