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The EU should put a "stronger focus" on "the fight against human smuggling" along the Eastern Mediterranean route, according to the interior ministers of almost two dozen central and eastern European states, who have called for joint investigations and enhanced cooperation with Turkey and Western Balkan countries.
The use of 'Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration' programmes is a key part of the EU-wide drive to increase the number of people expelled from the bloc.
The French government is starting to adopt questionable approaches to try to counter 'radicalisation'.
A new report by Mobile Info Team.
Two weeks discplinary hearing of PC Mark Alston beings 11AM on 4 December 2019 at 21 New Street, London, EC2M 4TP.
Conclusions of the joint international press freedom mission to Hungary.
The effects of East Germany's police state are still being felt thirty years later.
A report looking at the last five years of work by the EDPS.
"The French parliament backed a resolution on Tuesday labelling anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism."
Including: press release, agendas and background note.
Including: press release, agendas and background note
The latest LIMITE update on the EU's Global Approach to Migration and Mobility.
"The bathers were enjoying the warm weather when they saw the small vessel approach the rocky coast with three babies and three children on board
"On Samos, as with the other frontier islands, it has now become widely seen as a ‘bad thing’ for refugees to be detained for so long on the islands. But on Samos at least the reality is more paradoxical."
"Over the course of the last week at least 41 people have died in two separate shipwrecks, one off Lampedusa and one between Morocco and Spain. After disembarking a total of 353 people in Italian ports in the beginning of the week, NGO ships rescued another 213 people since Thursday."
Evidence presented to the London Hearing of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on the violations with impunity on the rights of migrants and refugees.
European Commission press release ten years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.
"Under a raft of promises the party claims will improve border security if it wins the election, the Tories said a new visa waiver scheme called Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) would be brought in for EU citizens wanting to travel to the UK."
Frontex role in the militarisation and securitisation of migratory flows in the European Union. A new report by Centre Delas d'Estudis per la Pau.
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