Legal Centre Lesvos

Legal Centre Lesvos, a Migreurop member, published a report on the situation in Lesvos during the first six months of the year. You can find the report below.
The first half of 2025 has seen an intensification of anti-migrant rhetoric and policy in Lesvos and across Greece, marked by the appointment of Makis Voridis as Migration Minister on 15 March. Voridis, with a long history of far-right affiliations including leadership in the youth wing of the neo-fascist EPEN party, quickly (…)

The consequences of the "hotspot approach" on the fundamental rights of people on the move

This 7-episode podcast, produced with the "studio son" of la Parole errante demain in the Greek islands of Kos and Leros, lends the voices of migrant people stranded on these islands, as well as of the people working or volunteering alongside them. It highlights and denounces the hotspot approach which only serves to sort, lock up and deport migrant people.
The implementation of the "hotspot approach" by the European Union (EU) in 2015, and the signing of the EU-Turkey migration agreement (…)

Public webinar organised by Migreurop

On December 9, 2022, Migreurop organised a webinar on criminalisation of solidarity with a focus on migrants in solidarity. While the issue of the crime of solidarity is now increasingly highlighted within Euro-African civil societies, little is said about the criminalisation of migrants in solidarity with their own cause, yet prosecuted for much more serious offences and sentenced to much heavier prison terms.
Programme:
Presentation of the webinar: Claudia Charles, Gisti
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Informal and illegal detention in Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany

The report of Migreurop “Locked up and excluded": Informal and illegal detention in Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany” looks back at how four EU member states practiced the administrative detention of non- nationals in 2019. The report shows how, in both first arrival countries such as Italy, Greece and Spain and in a presumed destination country, Germany, the detention of non-nationals is evolving, taking new forms and based on new grounds. In particular, this report argues that, in 2019, (…)

Mission Report Gisti - Migreurop 2019

On Friday 28th February 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided unilaterally to suspend the EU-Turkey deal of 2016, which, over the past four years, transformed five Greek islands in the Aegean sea into open prisons for migrants, the infamous ‘hotspots’. Already, Turkey had repeatedly used this agreement as a blackmailing device, threatening to re-open its borders with the EU. Finally, this threat was carried out in response to criticism from European leaders following a Turkish (…)