. The Atlantis project (400,000 euros), of which start has been brought forward because of the mass landings of migrants in the canaries islands in recent weeks, plans to create joined naval patrols near the Mauritanian coast, to send a liaison officer and to train the Mauritanian authorities. The Sea Horse project (2 million euros on the AENEAS funds) regroups Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Cape Verde Islands, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and Portugal. It is coordinated by Spain and will last three years. The aim is to reinforce cooperation between departure, transit and arrival countries, in order to stop illegal immigration.
There are more than 4,000 Moroccan minors in Spain. An “entente memorandum” has been signed between Spain and Morocco to ensure the respect and the dignity of the minor treatment.
. He asked Nicolas Sarkozy to open dialogue with Senegal and criticised the unilateral behaviour of France about im/emigration. Exchanges with the Spanish government are taken as an example for the cooperative management of the migratory phenomenon.
: the fight against illegal immigration thanks to information exchange, illegal immigration and coordination development. Algeria will not attend the conference.
. Liaison officers supervise and offer a technical assistance to the local officers.
. It thinks that the migration issue should be debated with the African Union and not only a few countries.
, in particular Atlantis and Sea Horse.
. Funds have been granted to Mauritania for the management of the migratory flows and the development.
Member States/ Third states
Algeria broke up an Asian illegal immigration network.
: xenophobia and racism, centres overcrowding, difficulties created by the Dublin regulation on the asylum requests.
. This might be the occasion to start a partnership for the immigration issues between France and Senegal (maybe to define later a legal immigration rate).
Camps
, called by CIMADE, because of the opening of a camp bigger than ever before (280 places in Vincennes).
Asylum
[Asylum claims have decreased in Europe. It is probably linked to the speeding up of the procedures and therefore to the access restrictions to the refugees status.
. The imprisonment of asylum seekers is particularly criticised.
, underlining that the examination of the claims is too inadequate and the eviction of the rejected seekers send them to a very dangerous situation.
. A letter, that have been signed by organisations, have been sent to the commissioner Frattini, in order to point out the inefficiency and injustice of the system for the asylum seekers, as well as its inequality of the responsibility share.
Appeal and mobilisation
, following the non-governmental conference June 30 and July 1, 2006. This conference is to link to the Euro-African governmental conference of July 10-11th, 2006.
. This appeal was first made by the European social forum in Athens.
Fifty demonstrators have been arrested.
Manifesto, proposed by the European Caravan for the freedom to circulate, asking to close imprisonment places for aliens and to stop the legal action started after the movement that began in Barcelona on the 24th of June in the Zona Franca detention center
(which was held on June 22-24, 2006) in Spanish
Migreurop
Article published in Libération, on June 13, 2006, by Claire Rodier, president of Migreurop:
Deciphering European migration policies