Internal documents from the European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) indicate that Bulgaria pressured Frontex officers into ignoring migrants’ rights abuses in exchange for experiencing “how border guarding works” in practice. Hungary has declared that...
A Dutch MEP and a Bulgarian NGO have renewed their concerns about migrant pushbacks on the Bulgarian-Turkish border and questioned the use of the EU’s funding to Bulgaria. Two Serbian NGOs have claimed that the Hungarian government’s migration policy has...
A recent investigative report by EUobserver has revealed that migrants on the Balkan route are getting addicted to tranquillisers due to over-prescription and unbearable living conditions. The number of officers from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency...
The EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) is preparing to deploy an additional 500 to 600 officers to guard the Bulgaria-Türkiye Border despite evidence showing that it previously ignored evidence of pushbacks committed by Bulgarian border guards. The European...
The fence along the Hungary-Serbia border continues to be seen effective by the government but locals and activists say that it “makes no sense”. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Hungary arbitrarily detained two children who applied for asylum...
