Testimonies from the survivors and from different social Moroccan organizations confirm that the nights of the 28th and 29th of April, a boat with more than seventy people that tried to reach the Spanish coast was hit by security Moroccan forces. At least 36 people drown, babies included. A few months before a complaint for the death of a Senegalese citizen thrown to the sea by the civil guard had arrived. In the frame of the International Committee of the III WSFM (…)

This ad hoc briefing paper offers an up to date account of the implications of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in justice and home affairs. It does so in three ways: First, it provides a comprehensive presentation of the provisions on common management of borders, control of illegal migration and visa policy. Second, the paper discusses the content and effects of EU policies and tools as they related to border controls. Third, and finally, the paper weights the power of the European (…)

CEPS Working Document No. 290/April 2008

With the Eastern Enlargement successfully completed, the EU is searching for a proper
balance between internal security and external stabilisation that is acceptable to all sides.

In Cyprus immigration and asylum laws do not respect European Union standards, putting migrants and refugees in a position of extreme insecurity, especially those that are kept prisoner in detention centers. In Nicosia, the latter are held in premises that are absolutely inappropriate to detention (lack of privacy, overcrowding), while Cypriot law does not stipulate a time limit for the administrative detention of foreigners . There are those who have been waiting two or even three years (…)

Testimonies of the movements in the Retention Centres of Vincennes and elsewhere