Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Webinar: Ukraine’s fight for its people: What’s next for the Ukrainian diaspora across Europe?, 22 May 2025 [info]

Panel discussion: The reception of Ukrainian refugees in Europe: Temporary protection, welfare regimes and practices, Online, 25 May 2025 [info]

Job announcement: Director, European Council on Refugees and Exiles [info]

- Submit application by 27 May 2025.

Short pieces:

The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: implications for Ireland (Research Matters, April 2025) [text]

Human Rights or Security? Poland's Controversial Asylum Suspension at Belarus Border (NOVA Asylum Policy Lab Blog, April 2025) [text via SSRN]

Nothing ‘voluntary, safe or dignified’ about returns of Syrians from Cyprus (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2025) [text]

Runaway Boats and Risky Rescues: How EU Policy Endangers Rescue (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2025) [text]

Safe for whom? The Advocate General’s Opinion in LC and LP v Commissione Territoriale per il riconoscimento della Protezione Internazionale di Roma (Verfassungsblog, May 2025) [text]

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

Reports:

"Beyond Derogation: Context-Driven Interpretation of Migrants' Rights and the Risks of Circumventing Article 15 ECHR, MPIL Research Paper, no. 6 (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law, May 2025) [text via SSRN]

The Cessation of International Protection and Review of Protection Statuses in Europe, Legal Note, no. 17 (ECRE, May 2025) [text]

Country Report: Cyprus (PRIO et al., 2025) [text]

- See also related snapshot.

Country Report: Greece (PRIO et al., 2025) [text]

- See also related snapshot.

Country Reports (AIDA, May 2025) 

- See updated profiles for Sweden and Switzerland.

"A Lonely Place: How Wethersfield is harming people seeking asylum - one year documenting medical harms at the mass containment site (Médecins du Monde & Médecins Sans Frontières, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on the UK.

*Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean: Commonalities and differences among Egypt, Lebanon, Greece and Cyprus (PRIO et al., 2025) [text]

Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper (Govt. of the UK, May 2025) [text via EIN]

- See also related blog posts here and here on EIN and on Free Movement. 

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 1 (8 May 2025)

- Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2 (8 May 2025)