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The European External Action Service (EEAS) has called on EU governments to limit the saving of lives at sea by Operation Sophia. A note sent to the member states' permanent representatives in Brussels says the mission should prioritise the enforcement of a UN arms embargo on Libya, rather than monitoring migrant smuggling activities, and suggests that ships could be placed "at least 100km off the Libyan coast, where chances to conduct rescue operations are lower."
Will the new Commission's 'Pact on Asylum and Migration' support the fundamental rights of migrants and refugees?
Civil liberties in Spain have deteriorated markedly in recent years. Will the new 'progressive' government take action?
The father and brother of a man who volunteered to fight for the anti-ISIS Kurdish group the YPG have been charged with terrorism offences.
Members of an extreme-right 'prepper' group have been arrested in Germany - and a police officer is amongst those arrested.
An article in Tagesspiel outlines that despite promising to relocate a quarter of the people who were dismebarked in southern Europe since September 2019, Germany has failed to do so.
Press release from the Lesvos Legal Centre.
A new project from the European University Institute and the Migration Policy Centre looking at the EU's 'interoperable' databases.
An overview of the long-running saga of the British authorities' misuse and abuse of the Schengen Information System.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK's policy of indefinite retentiono of DNA data is unlawful.
The Irish Department of Social Protection has announced that it uses facial recognition technology for the public services card programme, reversing its previous position.
"Delegations will find attached the joint paper of the outgoing Finnish Presidency and the Croatian Presidency on the implementation of the renewed EU Internal Security Strategy.
Catharina Ziebritzki argues that public liability law could prove useful in trying to hold EU agencies legally accountable for human rights violations in the 'hotspots' in Italy and Greece.
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