More than 200 organizations collectively speak out against the “Return Regulation,” announced by the European Commission in March 2025, denouncing the EU’s punitive, discriminatory, and security-driven logic—dictated by racism—and, ultimately, the erosion of European law that undermines the fundamental rights of exiled persons.
On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, (…)

Available in bookstores from 2 September 2025 - Launch event on 18th of December 2025

Migreurop renews its partnership with the second edition of Sophie-Anne Bisiaux’s book ‘En finir avec les idées fausses sur les migrations’ (Ending Misconceptions About Migration, in French).
About the book
The book, produced in partnership with 21 associations and organisations involved in migration issues, takes into account all the events that have occurred since its first edition in 2021 (the war in Ukraine, Giorgia Meloni’s rise to power, the election of Donald Trump, the European (…)

Open letter from Sea-Watch e.V.

Dear Mr. Leijtens,
Frontex is once again obstructing democratic scrutiny.
Your agency is demanding that we — a civil society organisation — pay €11,093.32 in court costs, for a legal case that arose because Frontex refused to release documents related to a clear human rights violation. This demand is an act of institutional intimidation designed to deter public oversight and silence accountability efforts.
In 2021, we filed a Freedom of Information request for documents and footage (…)

Crossborder Forum statement

We, organisations and individuals standing in solidarity with migrants across the French-Belgian-British border, condemn unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation of borders, as proposed by Starmer and Macron.
As the French government risks bowing to pressure from the UK government to modify their maritime law to allow these police interventions, they have now requested a proposal from the Interministerial Committee of the Ocean, with the intention to authorise the dangerous (…)

Joint press release and Infosheets

On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, on 20 June, EuroMed Rights is publishing three fact-sheets highlighting the alarming conditions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey, where the security and rights of citizens and people on the move alike are under serious threat. On this symbolic day, we salute and pay tribute to the resilience of all those forced to flee their country, their family, their environment, to escape conflicts, precariousness, political persecution, or climate disasters. But (…)