Deciphering European migration policies
In an urgent stay order of 14 June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights reminded the UK that it is still subject to international asylum law. Whether in the United Kingdom or in the Member States of the European Union, it is no longer the time to welcome people and the race to return them is in full swing.
Externalising asylum to Rwanda was one of the main measures of the UK’s "immigration plan", presented on 14 April 2022, and it was supposed to dissuade "irregular" crossings of the (...)
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It is not enough to change the Director, Frontex must be abolished!
The EU and its member states must sanction Frontex’s illegal practices and put an end to impunity!
On 29 April 2022, the Executive Director of the European border and coast guard agency, Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri (in office since 2015), resigned.
Since October 2020 , Frontex has faced numerous accusations of complacency or complicity in push back operations in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Europe, but also of serious dysfunction and bad governance. So much so that numerous investigations have been carried out by the European institutions (European Parliament, European Ombudsman, EU Court of (...)Spain and Morocco renew security cooperation agreement linking organised crime and "irregular" immigration
The cooperation agreement on security and the fight against crime, drawn up between the two countries in February 2019, will enter into force on 30 April 2022.
New stage in Moroccan-Spanish bilateral relations at the expense of exiles
This agreement, based on the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Morocco, signed in Rabat on 4 July 1991, represents a new stage in bilateral relations between the two countries.
After (...)Differential reception at European borders: on the racism of migration policies
Statement on the situation in Ukraine
"Today, the [interior] ministers of the European Union unanimously agreed to establish a temporary protection mechanism in response to the influx of displaced people arriving from Ukraine". With these words voiced by its interior minister, France, which currently presides over the EU Council, greeted the historical agreement to implement the 2001 European Directive on temporary protection for the very first time at the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 3 March. "This decision reflects (...)
When the UNHCR in Tunisia throws refugees on the streets like rubbish
Collective action
For seven nights and eight days now, refugees and asylum seekers have been demonstrating in front of the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Zarzis and Medenine, in the south of Tunisia. As more and more of them are being expelled from the accommodation centers, they have started to denounce their abandonment by the UN agency, which is supposed to provide protection.
Nearly 200 individuals – women, men and children – dare to make their suffering and their (...)