EU politics
Al Jazeera: More than 160 migrants drown in shipwrecks off Libya, UN says
At least 102 migrants died when a boat capsized on Friday, before another 62 died in another incident on Saturday. Read here
Racism
Environment
George Monbiot: What a Carve Up
Border walls are as harmful to ecology as they are to humanity. Read here Lithuanian Armed forces builds concertina wire fence on Lithuanian-Belarusian border / Photo by Lithuanian Armed Forces.
National Politics
Patrick Cockburn – The Chaotic Evacuation From Afghanistan Has Distracted From the UK’s Deeper Failures During the War
As Cockburn, like most Brits and Americans, does not take the EU and its member states seriously, he has kindly not mentioned it. This is really about the political class of the G7 nations plus […]
EU politics
Katarzyna Nowak, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, and Michał Żmihorski – Poland’s border wall will cut Europe’s oldest forest in half
The European bison is back from the edge of extinction, and Białowieża has the continent’s largest population. Michał Żmihorski , Author provided Katarzyna Nowak, University of Warsaw; Bogdan Jaroszewicz, University of Warsaw, and Michał Żmihorski, […]
EU politics
DW: Denmark: Ex-immigration minister sentenced to jail over couple separations
Inger Stoejberg’s hardline policy of forcing married refugee couples apart has been deemed unlawful and she is to be jailed for 60 days. The verdict cannot be appealed. Read here
EU politics
rfi: Hungary court avoids EU conflict after Orban challenge
Hungary’s constitutional court on Friday rejected a bid by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to challenge an EU court ruling against its harsh asylum policy. Read here
EU politics
Maurice Stierl – EU solidarity with Poland on migration: a violent response to an imagined threat
Maurice Stierl, University of Sheffield Just in the month of November 2021, migrant boats have capsized in the central Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic, the Aegean and the English Channel. The official death toll at the […]
EU politics
Politico: EU grants emergency asylum measures for Belarus border — but insists no crisis yet
Measures that are “temporary and exceptional” tend to become permanent. A wall is being built, military is being used against refugees, imprisonment is being legalised. Read here
EU politics
SwissInfo.ch: Greece opens two more holding centres for migrants on islands
Greece opens two more holding centres for migrants on islands – Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic wrote to Greek ministers in May, saying she feared the closed nature of the camps would […]
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – The tribal left’s a mirror image of the tribal right
An excellent, thoughtful article on how we are starting to think exactly like those we most abhor Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website […]