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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.
Refugees moving westwards in 1945. During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by ...
The vast majority pledged to work peacefully towards that goal while rebuilding post-war Germany and Europe. The expellees are still highly active in German politics, and are one of the major social groups of the nation, with around 2 million members. A president of the Federation of Expellees was a member of the Bundestag.
According to a population census in 1950, around 12.5 million refugees and exiles from the eastern territories formerly occupied by the Nazi regime fled after the end of the Second World War, to the Allied [excluding Russia?] occupation zones of Germany and Berlin. 3 million refugees came to Germany from Czechoslovakia, 1.4 million from Poland, roughly 300,000 from the former Free City of ...
He gained refugee status, now holds British citizenship, and has set up London’s Syria Solidarity Campaign (SSC). “Both my grandmothers passed away while I’ve been (in London),” he said ...
In the 1990s, refugees from the Yugoslav Wars sought asylum in Europe in large numbers. [100] 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. [101]
Since the 1980s, Europe has been home to a significant population of Iraqi exiles, a result of the Iran-Iraq War. The UK, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, in particular, have witnessed a notable presence of the Iraqi diaspora (with the Netherlands hosting refugees since the Gulf War of 1991).
In his expansion plan, he suggested to annex a large part of northwestern Germany. All the land west of the line Wilhelmshaven-Osnabrück-Hamm-Wesel would be added to the Netherlands, as well as the land east of Limburg, where the border followed the Rhine until close to Cologne, then diverging towards Aachen in the west.