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The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is an alliance of 127 NGOs across 40 European countries established in 1974. [1] ECRE’s mission is to protect and advance the rights of refugees , asylum seekers , and other forcibly displaced persons in Europe and in Europe’s external policies.
However, despite the statements of cooperation the differing approaches of members states was made apparent when former French president Nicolas Sarkozy criticized the EU Migrant plan [7] as well as the welcoming of migrants policy, indicating a fear that migrants would end up in France due to the freedom of movement and the strong welfare. [8]
An Estonian travel document for refugees is an internationally recognised travel document issued to refugees by the Police and Border Guard Board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Estonia in accordance to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
In the 1990s, refugees from the Yugoslav Wars sought asylum in Europe in large numbers. [97] In the 2010s, millions fled to Europe from wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 34,000 migrants and refugees have died trying to get to Europe since 1993, most often due to capsizing while trying to cross the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. [98]
News organisations and academic sources use both migrant crisis and refugee crisis to refer to the 2015 events, sometimes interchangeably. Some argued that the word migrant was pejorative or inaccurate in the context of people fleeing war and persecution because it implies most are emigrating voluntarily rather than being forced to leave their homes.
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A map of the European migrant crisis in 2015. This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, [1] there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 ...
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