SOLIDAR has been following the new Facilitation Directive to advocate for a text that does not lead to criminalising migrants, CSOs and HRDs. Below is a joint statement from over 100 organisations calling to end criminalisation. EU: Stop criminalising migration in the Facilitator’s Package law Civil society condemns Facilitation Directive’s failure to protect migrants and…
SOLIDAR has joined over 360 organisations in calling on the European Parliament and EU Council to act to block the Omnibus proposal. This proposal risks jeopardising the very objectives of crucial corporate sustainability laws and undermines not only the EU’s commitment towards its green ambitions and protection of human rights, but also its credibility as…
The Polish Presidency of the EU Council runs from 1 January – 30 June. With the new institutions getting down to business, what does the Polish Presidency have in store for us? Its slogan alone (‘Security, Europe!’) raises questions about its potential to advance a sustainable and just future for all. We have analysed…
Brussels, Belgium, 4 March 2025 – Today marks three years since the EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), which provided a safe pathway to protection for millions[1] of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. It was a powerful demonstration of the EU’s unity and solidarity in the face of a humanitarian crisis, and proved…
By Anne Van Lancker (President of SOLIDAR) and Julie Martinaud (SOLIDAR Policy Officer for migration and inclusion) This article was originally written in English, but published in Spanish in the Autumn 2024 edition of Tiempo de Paz, an investigative and analytical quarterly publication funded in 1984 by SOLIDAR member Movimiento Por La Paz – MPDL….
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum was adopted by EU co-legislators in April this year. Member States have two years to make the adaptations necessary and start implementing the Pact. In particular, each must submit to the European Commission, by 12 December 2024, a national implementation plan. SOLIDAR, as many of its member organisations,…
The Sabir Festival SOLIDAR and a delegation of members were present at the 10th edition of the Sabir festival in Rome, in October. Sabir is the festival of Mediterranean cultures, named after a lingua franca mixing Arabic, French, Italian, Greek and Spanish spoken in North Africa and the Levant. It was founded in 2014, one…
At the European Parliament’s constituent plenary session in July 2024, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected President of the European Commission. She then got to present her new Political Guidelines, a document based on the European Council’s Strategic Agenda that sets out the priority areas on which the Commission will focus and, in broad terms,…
The first weeks of October 2024 saw a sharp turn to the right in EU migration and asylum policy. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s letter to member states and the European Council’s conclusions contain various aspects that will accelerate a race to the bottom to dismantle what is left of the right to seek…
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