The EU’s border force Frontex is getting overhauled next Tuesday by a European Commission determined to give the Warsaw-based agency a larger role in deportations, more resources, and more agility to deploy.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen lashed out again at Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez on migration during a summit debate in Brussels on Friday.
Over a dozen EU member states, along with the EU Commission, discussed migration at a pre-summit breakfast on Friday.
EU is bankrolling border drones while starving the watchdogs meant to stop abusesMillions of euros of EU funds are being pumped into shoring-up border surveillance while legally-required national human-rights monitors struggle with funding. Some EU states still don’t have any monitors – despite a June deadline.
There is a jarring disconnect between EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s insistence on European values and the rules-based order – and the bloc’s willingness to throw the right to asylum out the window.
Disappeared Moroccan migrants are likely “in the thousands” after a sudden wave of arrivals hit Ceuta. But despite the human tragedy, the EU leaders’ main focus this week will be how to fortify borders.
They fled genocide in Sudan to find persecution in Egypt so they moved on to Libya, but von der Leyen aims to pay Cairo and Tripoli to keep Sudanese refugees out of Fortress EU.
This WEEK: Leaders to focus on economy at EU summit, in shadow of Russia threat and Middle East turmoilThe EU summit dominates the agenda this week, as 27 heads of state and government gather in Brussels for a two-day meeting.
The 19 June incident saw the Libyans once again attacking people fleeing the country on boats after having first been informed of their location by Frontex, an EU agency based in Warsaw.
Broken promise of ‘European solution’ on migration overshadows next week’s summitEU leaders have run out of ideas as they keep rehashing the same solutions on migration.
A trawl through 52 sets of summit conclusions reveals how EU leaders keep quietly copy‑pasting calls for tougher returns and externalised border control, while largely sidelining legal migration and resettlement schemes that could save lives.
Norwegian activist Tommy Olsen says he is facing enormous personal and financial costs over Greek allegations that he belongs to a criminal organisation, in a trial that starts on Tuesday in Rhodes.
Syria’s regime collapsed in December 2024, over 22 months ago. The country was the largest source of irregular arrivals in 2023. Today, the EU disingenuously attributes its migration policies for the drop of arrivals.
We went to Ceuta to see how Europe treats people who arrive at its borders. We came back asking how Europe can still call itself a continent governed by law. What we saw there was the often abstract failure of migration policy made brutally concrete: the daily humiliation of human beings.
In Poland, student status has become a sought-after commodity that employment agencies exploit for gains. Many foreign workers were unaware they were enrolled in fake schools associated with pro-Kremlin figures.
The EU’s ‘return regulation’ makes your home fair game for police — and Belgium is racing to use itThe EU’s return regulation is being formally adopted on Thursday, setting a new precedent for police raids. The Belgians are pressing ahead with their own national version, putting civil liberties of everyone at risk.
By outsourcing border control to Morocco, Turkey or Albania and then panicking when they “open the gates,” German lawyer Lena Riemer says EU capitals have handed hostile regimes a cheap, reliable way to divide and humiliate Europe.
Political pressure for allowing EU asylum opt-outs continues to increase, as commission drafts vague new emergency rules in the wake of this summer’s Ceuta episode.
Irregular arrivals to the EU are falling, but the infrastructure of its militarised borders is only getting started. Interior ministers from various member states met in Munich to advance plans to offshore migration processing to third countries.
Deporting humans becomes big business, as Brussels and Washington race to pay African countries to take themThe Americans have secured some 35 deals to deport people, often with no strings attached. The multi-million US dollar business appears to have turned into a race with the Europeans, who are hoping to secure their first deal with the Rwandans.
