The Administrative Council of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) approved 7 new lending projects on 17 March. In particular, one of the projects is a €100 million loan to the German Development Bank Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), of which around €32 million will part-finance investments to construct shelters and housing for refugees and migrants under the sector of action “Aid to refugees, migrants, displaced persons and other vulnerable groups”.
Newsletter on migration and refugees - April 2017
- SRSG publishes thematic report on migrant and refugee children
- Detention of asylum-seekers and migrants in border zones, migrants subjected to human trafficking and forced labour
- Commissioner concerned about detention and lack of integration of migrants and asylum seekers
- CPT publishes factsheet on immigration detention
- Congress adopted resolution and recommendation on migration
- Migration, refugees and displaced persons at the upcoming PACE session
- Guardianship, age assessment and prevention of sexual exploitation in focus
- First European qualifications passports for refugees issued in Greece
- CEB approves new lending projects
- Reducing migrants’ exposure to risks