EU politics
Reuters: Poland passes legislation allowing migrant pushbacks at border
This is the sort of stuff Donald Trump dreamed of. Now in the EU. Read here
Racism
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – After Corbyn, Israel lobby turns its guns on UK academia
The Jewish Chronicle warns that the dismissal of Prof David Miller is ‘just the beginning’ Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website To read […]
EU politics
DW: Is Europe ready for a post-COVID migration wave?
Unauthorized immigration to Europe went down at the peak of the pandemic. As EU countries reopen, migrant flows are back up. Read here
EU politics
Aleks Szczerbiak – How is the Belarusian border refugee crisis affecting Polish politics?
The EU and otherwise decried Polish party PIS seem to find themselves united against refugees and their call of “Build the wall” Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University […]
EU politics
Medecins Sans Frontieres: Samos: Where Europe lost its values and moral responsibility
A new prison-like camp on the Greek island of Samos marks a dangerous turn of European migration policy. Read here A Greek national flag and a European Union flag flutter at a newly inaugurated closed-type […]
EU politics
ecre: Geopolitics and Death in a Field
People continue to die at the border between Poland and Belarus and the silence from the EU is getting deafening. Commissioners Johansson and Schinas were pressed repeatedly on the topic but answer came there none. […]
Climate Crisis
Klaus Dodds – Conflict, Borders, and Division: The Fallout from the Climate Crisis
From uncontrollable fires in southern Europe to unprecedented flooding in Belgium and Germany, the summer of 2021 witnessed a string of environmental disasters. In his latest book, The New Border Wars, Klaus Dodds predicts that […]
EU politics
Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov, Barbara Grabowska-Moroz – EU Refugee Laws in Disarray
Inhuman Treatment of Afghan Hostages at the Polish-Belarusian Border and the shambolic Promise of EU Values Dimitry V. Kochenov leads the Rule of Law Research Group at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest and teaches at […]
EU politics
EU: “Build the wall. Build the wall”
Greece completes border wall extension to Turkey to deter potential Afghan migrants Read here
EU politics
Reuters: Austria calls for ‘deportation centres’ to host Afghans near Afghanistan
What a moral beacon the EU has become! Read here