Brussels, 22 April 2015
The signatory organisations are dismayed to learn of the decisions adopted on Monday 20 April by the EU Council of Ministers.
Other than restating a commitment to facilitate the resettlement of refugees and develop relocation initiatives, the Council confines itself to a rhetoric that has not only demonstrated its ineffectiveness, but has led to growing human tragedies at Europe’s maritime borders.
As migrants strive valiantly to save both their lives and their (...)

On 18th January 1995, the Balladur government decided to curtail circulation in the Comoros archipelago by imposing an entry visa upon inhabitants of the three other Comoran islands (Mohéli, Anjouan, Grande Comore) wishing to enter Mayotte. In this way, the isolation of the island of Mayotte, which broke away from the independent state of the Union of the Comoros twenty years previously following a unilateral decision by France which was contested by the United Nations, became a reality. (...)

The report of the international meeting organised by Migreurop on the 27th of November 2009

Since its foundation, Migreurop has denounced the consequences of the EU policies that use detention of migrants as the main tool to control migratory flows. Deprivation of liberty for someone whose crime is to try to live or survive in another country is highly questionable. Moreover, detention places are places of dehumanization where many abuses, human rights violations and acts of violence take place. The recent riots in detention centers for migrants in Malta, Italy and France since (...)

Far from being a solution for refugees, resettlement, in the context of a European asylum policy characterized by the bypassing of international obligations, is a supplementary weapon against the circulation of migrants.