Migreurop communication

On 24 and 29 January 2024 respectively, the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Albanian Constitutional Court approved the memorandum of understanding on migration concluded in November 2023. The Migreurop network condemns these manoeuvres, which are in line with the policies of the European Union (EU) and its Member States to externalise the processing of applications for international protection.
On 6 November 2023, Italy concluded an "agreement" with Albania with a view to relocating (…)

At a time when the European Council is meeting in Brussels on 26 and 27 October 2023 to discuss the strengthening of Europe’s borders in a world in upheaval, the Migreurop network points out the exorbitant cost of this escalation in security and the overwhelming responsibility of European States in the constant endangerment of migrants, who are trying to exercise their right to mobility at the cost of their lives.
For more than 30 years, the fight against so-called "illegal" immigration (…)

On 23 September 2020, the European Commission proposed a "New Pact on Migration and Asylum" which was supposed to renew European migration policies. Far from representing a new deal, the orientation and the measures advocated in this Pact are in reality a continuation of the repressive and security-oriented policies implemented by European institutions and their member states since the late 1990s. More than thirty years later, the objective remains the same: to see as few exiles as possible (…)

Sophie-Anne Bisiaux (Migreurop) and Lorenz Naegeli (independent researcher)

The development of a system for collecting data on people on the move in the Balkans highlights the overall orientation of the EU’s migration policies: outsourcing migration management at all costs, to the detriment of provisions for reception. In order to keep those considered as "undesirable" at a distance, would the European Union go so far as to extend beyond its borders the ‘Dublin’ mechanism for allocating state responsibility for asylum claims, at the risk of further aggravating the (…)