Since its creation, the Migreurop network has highlighted the harmful effects of the European Union’s border management policy placed in the way of people’s freedom of movement.
Yet, this freedom exists for a part of the world’s citizens who, by chance resulting from their place of birth, have a passport or obtain visas without difficulty that allow them to easily cross borders. Accepting that others should be denied this means approving the existence of a world with two tracks, entailing (...)

The devastating shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in April 2015 and the European Union’s "unwillingness to take action" in response have highlighted the failure of European asylum and reception policies. Faced with the crisis of humanity and solidarity, the EU should have opened its borders and fulfilled its responsibilities for sea rescue operations. Instead, however, the EU has opted to further strengthen its external borders by adopting the hotspot approach with a frame-work that gives (...)