Series of articles on the Balkans by Morgane Dujmovic

The European Migration and Asylum Pact adopted this spring could lead to an increase in police tracking of people exiled in the Balkans. For some twenty years now, the EU and Frontex have been developing surveillance systems with lethal effects. By going up the rivers which separate several countries in the region, this portfolio goes back to the sources of this cycle of violence.
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Episode #1
In the spring of 2024, Morgane (…)

Migreurop communication

On 24 and 29 January 2024 respectively, the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Albanian Constitutional Court approved the memorandum of understanding on migration concluded in November 2023. The Migreurop network condemns these manoeuvres, which are in line with the policies of the European Union (EU) and its Member States to externalise the processing of applications for international protection.
On 6 November 2023, Italy concluded an "agreement" with Albania with a view to relocating (…)

Mission Report 2021

For more than 20 years, the EU has been developing cooperation with non-member countries (so-called "third countries") to outsource its border control. Identified as departure countries and then as transit countries for migration to the EU, the Balkan countries have been rapidly integrated into the core of this externalisation strategy. This has been particularly the case since the so-called "migration crisis" of 2015, when almost one million persons, mainly from the Middle East, were (…)