ECRE is criticizing the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), after the EASO published their overview of asylum trends in 2018. The main complaints are related to:
- The EASO struck a rather celebratory tone when announcing the number of asylum applications declined. ECRE pointed out this doesn`t mean less refugees and migrants, only less of those who opted for safer legal channels. In addition, ECRE pointed out Europe should be hosting more people taking into account the high level of forced displacement globally. Compared with African countries that opted for open and welcoming tone, developed European societies are choosing to close their borders for people in need.
- The protection rate has decreased, but ECRE pointed out “the rate is still high from a historical perspective. In addition, these are first instance decisions and many people are granted protection after an appeal or review (although accurate statistics are not available).”
- The wildly divergent protection rates across the EU where “similar caseloads are being treated differently from country to country, with the same person having a 6% probability of their protection needs being recognised in one country compared to a 98% probability in another.”
- Political influence on the judicial decision making
- The report claims the figures are back to ‘pre-crisis level’, hoping to show the emergency has passed, but ECRE warns this is dangerous, since for countries like Greece this is not true, but putting forward data like this can give false impression the “crisis” is over, while in fact it may have just been starting – for example the rise of populist in Europe
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