March 2026 - This first 2026 monitoring update from the Aegean NGO Network (ANN) examines conditions in the EU-funded Closed Controlled Access Centres (C.C.A.C) on Lesvos, Samos , Chios, Kos and...
Members of the Aegean NGO Network urgently call on the EU institutions, policy makers and experts to recognise the suppression of civil society space, including restrictions on (legal) support and...
October 2025 - This first monitoring update from the Aegean NGO Network (ANN) examines conditions in the EU-funded Closed Controlled Access Centres (C.C.A.C) on Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Kos and Leros...
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, the proposal outlines coercive,...
Brussels, Belgium, 1 July 2025 – The EU’s recent proposals in the area of migration and asylum risk seriously undermining people’s access to fair and full asylum procedures in Europe. The European...
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INTRODUCTION This report provides a non-exhaustive overview of publications about the conditions on the Greek islands Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos from EU and UN bodies and nongovernmental...
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INTRODUCTION This report visualises data from the Greek hotspots between 2016-2023. The visualisations have been rendered from a dataset based on an open-source literature review which provides the...
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After Europe’s biggest and most notorious refugee camp burned down in September 2020, promises were made never to let Moria happen again. Authorities guaranteed that state-of-the-art facilities in...
The Member States and European Parliament, the EU’s co-legislators, are moving forward with a reform of EU asylum law in the form of the Pact on Migration and Asylum which reduces protection...
In December 2021, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum. The proposal introduces a mechanism...
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Our Call to Action We, the undersigned organizations, jointly call on the governments of European Union (EU) Member States to immediately commit to the emergency relocation of unaccompanied children...
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Action is all the more urgent in light of the escalating violence on Lesbos, and as increased arrivals to the islands could lead to further deterioration of the dangerous conditions in the camps.
