EU politics
Politico – Frontex gets power to track migration talk on social media
Frontex is watching you. Read the article HERE.
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Richard Braude – Europeans Outraged at ICE Should Also Be Resisting Frontex
‘Reports of ICE thugs providing security for J. D. Vance at Milan’s Winter Olympics have sparked outrage in Italy. In Europe, too, multibillion-euro border agency Frontex is taking on increasingly troubling powers.’ In Jacobin. Read […]
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Barah Mikaïl – The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective
The EU externalising its borders is neither effective nor moral, and it won’t restrain support for the far-right either. Barah Mikaïl is Associate professor of International Security at IE University in Madrid. Cross-posted from The […]
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Jacobin: European Authorities Refuse to Save Migrants From Drowning — So Ordinary Citizens Are Doing It Instead
In June, Italy’s government impounded the Sea-Eye 4 rescue ship for 20 days as part of a crackdown on NGOs that save migrants’ lives at sea. Crew members told Robin Jaspert why they won’t be intimidated by authorities […]
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Al Jazeera: Why is the EU offering Tunisia a financial assistance package?
The EU hopes to stem the number of refugees departing for Europe from the country’s coast during an economic crisis. Read the article HERE.
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Nathan Akehurst: The European Union is stepping up its war on refugees
Frontex, Europe’s border army, sits at the heart of a remilitarising continent Cross-posted from Other News A special EU summit in Brussels last month committed to increasing funds for border surveillance and the deportation of […]