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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.
Estonia is a Finnish eight-part drama television series.The series tells about the sinking of the MS Estonia ferry in 1994. [1] Based on the actual investigation reports, the story follows the accident investigation in Finland, Sweden and Estonia through several people, in connection with which we also see events on the car ferry, the sinking and its rescue efforts.
The most pro-Israeli countries in July were France and Sweden, where 21% of their population identified as pro-Israel; but in Sweden a higher share said they are pro-Palestinian (25%) and in France the two sides were equal in size. Sympathy for Israel fell sharply to 19% in Germany, although the rise in the pro-Palestinian population was only ...
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Cover of a biometric Estonian travel document for refugees (old version) 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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...