Executive director for the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), Hans Leijtens, visited Athens amid speculations of a decrease in the agency’s engagement in Greece. The situation for refugees and asylum seekers remains dire according to new NGO reports. ...
People continue taking dangerous journeys to Europe despite expanded partnerships with third countries and tactics to delay or prevent assistance to people in distress. Search and rescue efforts continue on the Atlantic Route as well as the Mediterranean route, the...
EU’s signing of an agreement for a “strategic and comprehensive partnership” with the Tunisian regime has sparked severe critique from MEPs, experts and human rights organisations. Meanwhile, violence and crackdown on Sub-Saharan Africans continue including purges to...
Despite criminal links and continued abuse against civilian rescue operators and migrants the EU is offering new assets to so-called Libyan Coast Guard. Desert deportations and incited violence against Sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia puts EU-Tunisia migration deal...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for a new EU-wide search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean. People continue to take dangerous journeys to Europe as rescue efforts resume. The European Parliament adopted a resolution requesting a new and...
