As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies.
Adoption of the concept of "safe third countries" and the European list of "safe countries of origin": facilitation of deportations and infringement of the right to asylum
On 10 February 2026, the European Parliament approved a legislative text extendingthe (…)

In this collective statement launched on the initiative of the PICUM network and co-signed by Migreurop, more than 80 European organizations protest against the return regulation that is currently being negociated, warning that it could expand and normalize immigration raids and surveillance measures across our communities.
The EU is currently negotiating a Deportation (“Return”) Regulation to expand and normalise immigration raids and surveillance measures across our communities. They (…)

As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies.
October-December 2025 period: On December 10, 2025, the European Commission will host the 2025 International Conference of the Global Alliance to Combat "Migrant Smuggling" in Brussels, reports Politico. More than 80 delegations from European agencies, partner (…)

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Statewatch is publishing a handbook that explains how data protection law can be used to seek remedies and redress for people in the EU’s immigration and asylum systems. Aimed at lawyers, case workers, volunteers and others working on immigration and asylum cases, it offers an overview of key digital technologies, and privacy and data protection concepts and cases.
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More than 200 organizations collectively speak out against the “Return Regulation,” announced by the European Commission in March 2025, denouncing the EU’s punitive, discriminatory, and security-driven logic—dictated by racism—and, ultimately, the erosion of European law that undermines the fundamental rights of exiled persons.
On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, (…)