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 (...)
Publications
This section brings together the network’s publications and tools, such as the various editions of the “Atlas of Migration in Europe”, the cartographic work or the collection of Briefs to inform and raise awareness as widely as possible on the network’s major themes or geographical areas of interest.
Articles in this section
Closing of the 2014-2015 mobilization
The third mobilization – launched in the framework of the Open Access Nowcampaign on October 15 2014 and aimed at denouncing migrants’ detention and the violations of their rights – ends.
Civil society organizations, journalists and parliamentarians visited six-teen camps in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
The right to access camps remains subject to the discretion of the authorities: journalists were left at the door thirteen times out of sixteen. Partial access to these places confirms (...)Fatal shipwrecks in the Mediterranean CAN be avoided!
On Sunday 12 April 2015, 400 people lost their lives in a shipwreck off the Italian coasts. The number of victims outnumbers by far the tragic events of October 2013, when 366 migrants drowned near Lampedusa.
How come that such horror may happen again, 18 months after a tragedy which had aroused indignation among the European Union (EU), the heads of state and governments? Why is it, that,in 2014, more migrants lost their lives in the Mediterranean than ever before? Over 3,500 people died (...)Frontex, poison or antidote to the tragedies in the Mediterranean?
Brussels, 23 February 2015
As Malta receives millions of Euros to fund maritime border control operations in collaboration with Frontex, members of the FRONTEXIT campaign denounce the security obsession blinding Europe and leading to increasing numbers of deaths.
On 4 February, the European Union announced that more than 12 million Euros had been granted to the Maltese armed forces in order to finance the purchase of equipment to be used for operations coordinated by Frontex (the European (...)1995 – 2015: Thousands of deaths off the coast of Mayotte. The ‘Balladur visa’ kills!
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. (...)