As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies. Here are the EU updates for the period from March to May 2026.
Toward the imminent adoption of the “return” regulation
On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament confirmed in plenary session the negotiating mandate on the reform of the 2008 “Return” Directive (…)

Tunisia Business News, Taking the streets to break the silence: citizen mobilisation against racism in Tunis, 11 April 2026
Following a citizens’ petition launched on 7 April and shared on social media, a solidarity march against racism took place in Tunis on Saturday 11 April. Slogans were chanted to denounce racist online discourse, discriminatory remarks by certain Tunisian MPs, and the crackdown on migrants and human rights defenders in Tunisia.
Racism against migrants from (…)

Update to the Migreurop map, by Nicolas Lambert.

Between January 1, 1993, and April 3, 2026, 76,000 people died while migrating in an attempt to reach Europe. Drowning, suffocation, accidents, being crushed, poisoning, explosions in minefields, death from hunger, thirst, exhaustion, lack of medical care, or police violence—these are all human tragedies resulting from repressive migration policies.
In this article published on the “Neocarto” website on April 3, 2026 (in French), geographer and cartographer Nicolas Lambert offers a (…)

Libya InfoMigrants, ‘Mediterranean: 2,500 migrants intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to Libya since the start of 2026’, 12 March 2026
Since the beginning of 2026, more than 2,500 migrants have been intercepted in the Mediterranean by the Libyan coastguard and forcibly returned to Libya. These interceptions are carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded in 2017 between Italy and Libya, which provides for logistical and financial support from Italy and the European Union to (…)

Migreurop’s analysis

ℹ️Read the summary of the analysis here.
On 26 March 2026, following on from the recent rights-violating legislative reforms (the European Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Schengen Code reform, the redefinition of the concept of ‘safe countries’...), MEPs approved a new instrument that effectively annihilates the rights of migrant people and continues to dismantle EU law, and, by extension, international law.
In the blink of an eye, the hard-right’s repressive agenda has prevailed. And (…)