Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi

More proposals for the next multi-year EU budget

immigration and asylum policy funding commission.europa.eu/document/dow...

Schengen (visas/border control) - commission.europa.eu/document/dow...

Instrumentalisation of migration: Europe needs a strong and lawful response Several EU Member States refer to alleged attempts at instrumentalisation by Russia and Belarus to undermine refugee protection at the eastern external borders - even though the number of asylum seeke...

In a new policy brief for @delorsberlin.bsky.social, @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social, @pzlotnik.bsky.social, @llaube.bsky.social, @dansaracino.bsky.social and I look into how the EU has been dealing with what it calls "instrumentalised" migration. 🧵 (1/3) www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

Legal Legacies of Co‐ordinative Europeanisation – EU Crisis Governance Between Political Expedience and Normative Credence This article examines the phenomenon of ‘co-ordinative Europeanisation’, a mode of governance characterised by close collaboration between European Union (EU) institutions and national executives. It...

📘 New article now out with @jcms-eu.bsky.social!

“Legal Legacies of Co-ordinative Europeanisation – EU Crisis Governance Between Political Expedience and Normative Credence”

Read early view here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@groningeneulaw.bsky.social @rechten050.bsky.social

The EU’s quiet shift toward an ‘(un)safe fourth country’ asylum policy The European Commission has proposed letting member states drop the ‘connection requirement’ from the ‘safe third country’ concept in asylum cases. Gaia Romeo and Frowin Rausis argue this seemingly te...

The #EU Commission has proposed letting member states drop the ‘connection requirement’ from the ‘safe third country’ concept in #asylum cases.

@gaiaromeo.bsky.social and I argue this seemingly technical tweak marks a major shift — toward an ‘(un)safe fourth country’

@ecprtheloop.bsky.social 👇️

Marking 20 years since Commission v France (C-304/02) 🎉

In 2005, the #ECJ ordered a Member State to pay both a lump sum fine and a periodic penalty payment for failing to comply with #EUlaw – the first time that the two sanctions were applied together 🇪🇺
Read here 👉 curia.europa.eu/en/actu/comm...

The latest #RuleOfLaw Report on #Greece released on Tuesday 8 July by the @ec.europa.eu fails yet again to highlight chronic problems and structural deficiencies underlying Greek institutions: rsaegean.org/en/eu-rule-o...

It remains strikingly ‘out of touch’ with the reality in the country. (1/6)

🎓🌍 It's the last day of the ENSURED Summer School!

Over the last week, students & researchers have grappled with the challenges and future of effective, robust & democratic global governance.

A huge 🙏 to the participants for their ideas!

📝 Read the summary: www.ensuredeurope.eu/news-events/...

I have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org

The @echr.coe.int has granted interim measures ordering #Greece to urgently improve conditions and transfer nine unaccompanied minors detained in the “Safe Area” of the #Kos CCAC in #Greece.

Decision after application by Equal Rights Beyond Borders.👏

equal-rights.org/articles/154

Directory of Migration Research Institutions - Migration Policy Centre About The Directory of Migration Research Institutions is a comprehensive database that maps migration research centres across the globe that: covers institutions established between 1945 and 2024 and...

Last week, #IMISCOE gathered 1,000+ scholars in Paris to “decenter migration studies".

Where is the center of migration research? Our Directory shows that 75% of institutes are in Europe & North America, shaping which stories are told.

migrationpolicycentre.eu/directory-of...

We also warmly thank the previous E-i-C, @profjmcadam.bsky.social, @profgsgilbert.bsky.social & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill for marvellously steering the journal & all EB members, past & current for rich contributions! @myrmek.bsky.social @catbriddick.bsky.social @ndftan.bsky.social @yuliaioffe.bsky.social

In our free inaugural editorial as E-i-C w/Sarah Singer @rli-sas.bsky.social we trace 40 years of scholarship @ the #International_Journal_of_Refugee_Law (OUP) & reflect on new directions: academic.oup.com/ijrl/article...
@profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

CJEU, asylum law

New judgment - Greek rule that asylum seekers must appear in person for their appeal against refusal of their application is a breach of EU law - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

Save the date: Am 25. September präsentiere ich mein neues Buch "Migrationspanik" im wunderbaren Wien Museum. Eintritt frei!

www.wienmuseum.at/event/2007

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨

Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍

Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more.

Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚

Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

Italy's attempt to offshore asylum processing to Albania has made its way to the ECJ with a preliminary reference by the Italian Court of Cassation.

ANDREINA DE LEO examines the fictions and future of Italy's model of externalization.

verfassungsblog.de/managing-mig...

1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying The rush for ‘climate visas’ to escape Tuvalu shows the extraordinary need for schemes that enable people to migrate in a warmer world.

In just four days, one-third of the population of Tuvalu entered a ballot for a new permanent visa to Australia. I explain how the visa came about and why it's so popular theconversation.com/1-in-3-tuval...

Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges Abstract. This article seeks to conceptualise evacuations as a form of human mobility. Although evacuations represent a large proportion of annual global “

I'm pleased to say that the published version of my article 'Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges' is now out in the latest issue of the Refugee Survey Quarterly academic.oup.com/rsq/article-...

Hungary breached ECHR re collective expulsions, risk of torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment, and effective remedies with its "embassy procedure" limiting the ability to apply for asylum - CJEU had already ruled this was also a breach of EU law

SS and Others v Italy – or doubling down on Banković I am still in shock. The publication of S.S. and Others v Italy on 12 June 2025 was long awaited.  After months of work along with the applicants, seven years later, this is a disgruntling result – no...

SS and Others v Italy – or doubling down on Banković | by Violeta Moreno-Lax

www.ejiltalk.org/ss-and-other...

CJEU, asylum law

New Advocate General's opinion on when benefits can be withdrawn from asylum-seekers
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

CJEU, immigration law

New judgment - on the effectiveness of judicial review of a Member State (Belgium) decision refusing a non-EU student visa - curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

🚨 The full MigFund database is now publicly available.
It covers EU funding for migration and asylum from 2000 to 2023, across both internal and external programmes.
1,700+ funding measures.
All major instruments, from AMIF to EUTF.
You can download it here: zenodo.org/records/1568...

The impact of Trump's cuts to humanitarian aid, by the numbers Brooke Nichols, a professor of global health who models infectious diseases and used to work on a USAID-funded program herself, is crunching the numbers to quantify the impact of the pullback on U.S. ...

A Boston University professor of global health has done the math and created a website to visualize and track the effects of the Trump/DOGE dismantling of USAID.

"As of June 15, the death toll for adults and children from aid funding cuts topped 340,000 and came out to 103 deaths per hour."

Visa policy: Council and European Parliament secure a deal on rules about the suspension of visa-free travel for third countries The Council and the European Parliament reach a provisional agreement on an EU law to revise the bloc’s visa suspension mechanism.

EU Member States and European Parliament agree on revised law on fast track reimposition of visa requirements
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Advocate General Ćapeta’s Opinion in WS and Others v Frontex before the Grand Chamber: The End of Frontex’s Shielding? Joint Liability of Frontex and Member States in Return Operations Antje Kunst * * Antje Kunst is an international lawyer and barrister of Garden Court North Chambers, admitted to the Bar of England and ...

A new CJEU Advocate-General's opinion argues that EU border agency Frontex can effectively be held liable for participating in unlawful returns by Member States.

Analysis by @kunsta.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

Integration as Exclusion: The Keren Case Revisited Dr Sarah Ganty , LL.M. (Yale), Ph.D. (ULB); J.S.D. candidate, Yale Law School; F.N.R.S. Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLouvain; Research Visitor, ...

Critical analysis of a recent CJEU ruling on compulsory integration courses for refugees, by @sarahganty.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/inte...

💡 New blog post — A Better Group Protection for Refugee Women — by Jean-Yves Carlier and Eleonora Frasca (UCLouvain)

(EN) 👉 eumigrationlawblog.eu/a-better-gro...

(FR) 👉 eumigrationlawblog.eu/une-meilleur...

🔈Join the conversation—drop your comments and questions for the authors and the community!

A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by  Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...

The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.

My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

Screenshot from part of tomorrow's Commission agenda

Confirmed for tomorrow - proposal for another year of temporary protection for those fleeing the invasion of Ukraine, alongside transitioning out of it