EuroMed Rights - 25/07/2025

As reported by euobserver on 12 September 2025, the EU will hold a bilateral summit with Egypt on 22 October in Brussels. Officials have said the summit will serve to improve the institution’s relationship with Egypt, which has become a central partner of the EU in migration control. Already in March, 2024, the EU signed an agreement to provide Egypt with €7.4bn in budget support and investment, in return for enhanced border control and migration policy cooperation.
On 18 August 2025, the Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE) and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) published a joint report titled ‘The Collapse of Egypt’s Protection for Refugees’ which exposes Egyptian authorities’ systematic commitment of violations of refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt. It highlights Egypt’s breach of the principle of non-refoulment, the lack of legal safeguards for refugees and asylum seekers, and an increased use of force in state security measures.
On July 29 2025, Reuters reported on the growing number of Sudanese returning to their country from Cairo. Since relative calm has returned to the capital Khartoum, which has been ravaged by civil war since 2023, refugees have been taking a weekly train from Cairo to Aswan to return to their country of origin.

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