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 (…)

A publication by Statewatch

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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From immigration and asylum, to privacy and data protection
The EU’s immigration and asylum system (…)

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, (…)

Conference proceedings October 11th 2024

As the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex celebrates its 20th anniversary on 26 October 2024, the Migreurop network, in conjunction with its members, organised a public conference on the occasion of the 10th edition of the Festival Sabir(Rome) to take stock of the activities and excesses of the Frontex agency, and of 20 years of war on migrants with no regard for their rights.

Info sheets

EuroMed Rights, together with its members and partners, ARCI, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, CNCD-11.11.11, Foundation for the Promotion of Rights (Algeria), the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), KISA, La Cimade, LDH France, and Migreurop, publish two infosheets on the EU proposal for a regulation that will revise the EU return system (so-called Return Regulation), replacing the 2008 Return Directive, highlighting its adverse impact and risks of human rights violations.
The publication follows the (…)