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A coalition of European digital rights groups say that the European Union’s sweeping new Migration and Asylum Pact will "usher in a deadly new era of digital surveillance". The Protect Not Surveil coalition, which includes groups like the Border Violence Project, Privacy International, and Access Now, said in a statement that the pact "represents the further embedding of surveillance technologies in the EU". "It therefore represents a further erosion of fundamental rights, and the normalisation of digital surveillance at, and within, borders, justified by an approach to migration policy based ...
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This week, we are joined by Jan-Christoph Oetjen, German MEP from Renew Europe, Damien Boeselager, German MEP from Volt and Laura Shields from Red Thread EU. Our panel broke down the EU migration and asylum pact that got the green light from MEPs this week in Brussels. EU member states now need to rubber-stamp the deal - most likely by the end of this month. The huge stack of EU legislation has been under discussion for years. It seeks to change a status quo under which countries like Italy, Greece and Malta face the massive burden of processing and integrating refugees and asylum seekers. "I ...
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"All member states have to implement it and apply it," Ylva Johansson, the Commissioner who spearheaded the sweeping reform, told Euronews on Thursday. "If not, the Commission will of course act and use – if necessary – infringement (procedures)," she added. "But I must say that I'm pretty convinced that member states will implement the Pact now quite quickly." The New Pact is a set of five inter-connected pieces of legislation aimed at establishing common, predictable rules to manage the reception and relocation of asylum seekers. This, the thinking goes, will turn the page on a decade of go-...
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This is one of the eye-catching takeaways from an exclusive Euronews poll conducted by Ipsos among almost 26,000 respondents across 18 member states ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, which will be held between 6 and 9 June. The first-of-its-kind survey shows that 51% of Europeans have a "negative" assessment of the bloc's impact on migration policy, while only 16% have a "positive" view. Meanwhile, 32% say the impact has been "neither positive nor negative." The trend cuts through genders, age groups and occupations, and is consistent in most countries, where the negative side...
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Migration is one of the most controversial political subjects but a project to collect the sounds of this phenomenon will try to re-shape the debate around this issue. Migration Sounds has called for people to send sounds which represent moving away from their country to start a new life in a foreign country. These sounds will then be given to musicians and composers to make a piece of work which be used in the project. The idea is the brainchild of Cities and Memory and COMPAS, the Centre on Migration Policy and Society of the University of Oxford, in Britain Stuart Fowkes, sound artist and c...
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"Do we need to work with third countries to manage migration? My answer is definitely yes. We are already doing that and it's necessary to do it even more. Nobody can manage migration alone," the European Commissioner for Home Affairs said on Tuesday afternoon. "So we need to work with partner countries and we need to work along the routes and we need to fight the smugglers together." "Should we send away people that are on the EU territory applying for asylum to a third country? My answer is no. (We're) not open for that in the Pact." Johansson was referring to the New Pact on Migration and A...
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The document outlines a raft of proposed economic, social and institutional reforms. But at the core of the group’s election bid are three defining issues: migration, climate and defence. Among the plans floated are the controversial outsourcing of asylum applications to third countries based on the UK-devised ‘Rwanda model’, more financial support for farmers and fishers to adapt to the climate transition, and a dedicated EU defence budget. The EPP, which harbours Europe’s Christian-democratic, liberal and conservative parties, is set to remain the European Parliament’s biggest faction after ...
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The report, published last week, concluded that Frontex is overly dependent on the consent of national authorities and is therefore ill-equipped to uphold European Union values and save lives at sea. The office of Emily O'Reilly also recommended the agency should "terminate, withdraw or suspend its activities" in countries that persistently disregard their search-and-rescue obligations or violate fundamental rights. Otherwise, O'Reilly warned, the EU risks becoming "complicit" in migrant deaths. On Tuesday, almost a week after the report's publication, Hans Leijtens met members of the press in...
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The findings, released on Wednesday morning, offer a closer look at the often-fraught relation between the EU's border agency and the 27 member states. The Ombudsman's inquiry was launched in response to the Adriana shipwreck in June 2023, when an overcrowded vessel sunk off the coast of Messenia, Greece, and left more than 600 people either confirmed or presumed dead. The watchdog does not conclude that Frontex "breached any of the relevant rules and procedures" but notes its ability to operate at sea is severely impaired by its design, which makes the agency dependent on the consent and good...
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Last month, a report documented vicious punishment beatings of people held in Greek refugee camps and detention centres. Most who spoke to the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) reported having been beaten indiscriminately. Others said they were beaten for daring to complain about inhumane conditions in Greece’s EU-funded detention camps. Respondents also reported being shocked with electric weapons and subjected to racist abuse. Such violence should make headlines across the continent. Instead, we have normalised it. The week the report emerged, the European Court of Human Rights censu...
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