Etiket: asylum
Associations to Council of State against stop asylum reception single men
On Wednesday, eight associations submitted a request for suspension in case of urgency to the Council of State against the decision of State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de…
EU Asylum Agency: more than a quarter more asylum applications in the first half of the year, the highest number since 2015
The number of asylum applications in the first half of this year in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland has increased by more than a quarter compared to the same…
Justice Department investigation: no evidence of ‘pucking effect’ asylum policy
There is no scientific evidence that Dutch rules and reception facilities have a ‘pull effect’ on asylum seekers, as is often claimed in the social debate on asylum policy. That’s…
Handball team from Burundi disappears without a trace at the World Cup: three weeks later, players apply for asylum in Belgium
There is a good chance that the almost entire national handball team from Burundi that disappeared without a trace during the World Cup in Croatia is in our country to…
Vivaldi parties look to Europe for a solution to the asylum problem | Interior
The parties in the federal government are looking to Europe to solve the pressing asylum problem in Belgium. This became apparent on Sunday during a debate in De Zevende Dag.…
ANALYSIS. “A vote for Vlaams Belang is often discouraged because it would pursue an illegal or discriminatory asylum policy. Vivaldi is now doing that himself”
“With a State Secretary for Asylum and Migration announcing an illegal policy and a Minister of the Interior without guts or vision on security policy, the bed of Vlaams Belang…
Shelter for minor asylum seekers and status holders in Eindhoven
Eindhoven will temporarily receive 65 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers and forty status holders. The groups will live in Hotel Glow and hotel-restaurant Dirven on the Keizersgracht in the center of…
‘Men’s ban’ in Belgian asylum centers is against the law, but the government is persevering anyway
What Belgium wants, says Shila Hadji Heydari Anaraki, “is not allowed at all”. Anaraki, a German anthropologist from the Catholic University of Leuven, is clear about this: there is no…
Asylum crisis back: left-wing Vivaldi parties call State Secretary de Moor’s plan “extremely problematic” | Interior
PoliticsBy denying asylum to single men, CD&V is targeting the symbolic group of the asylum crisis. Left-wing Vivaldi parties see it as an electoral strategy and may put counterproposals on…
State Secretary De Moor takes a drastic decision: single men will no longer receive asylum reception in the near future | Interior
Single men who apply for asylum in Belgium will no longer receive shelter in our country in the near future. This has been decided by State Secretary for Asylum and…