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An online symposium containing a selection of articles on the rule of law in the EU.
The reintroduction of internal border controls in the Schengen area has gone on for years longer than legally permitted.
A letter from the former Lord Mayor of Sheffield to President Emmanuel Macron.
"Greece illegally deported 60,000 migrants to Turkey, documents released by Turkey reportedly show. The process involves returning asylum seekers without assessing their status."
"Faced with increasing use of electronic evidence in the context of criminal investigations, both the US and the EU have expressed the willingness to modernise the tools enabling cross-border access to electronic data for law enforcement authorities, and to cooperate further in the exchange of electronic data. This is an opportunity for the EU and the US to set a gold standard for the world."
"Has parliamentary government, after almost two hundred years of honoured service, come to an end in Europe?"
European Court of Auditors: Special report No 20/2019
The latest update on migration to the Greek islands.
Abused in a Bosnian police station: “they even took my asthma inhaler”
"Two new anthologies of pieces from the magazines Race Today and Race & Class recall important struggles on the streets, the factory floors and in communities, linking them to both class and global internationalism."
Office of the Prime Minister official Neville Gafà acted as intermediary in deal
A new report from the organisation Pax looks at the development of automated weaponry.
A study by Pew Research Centre estimates that the number of "unauthorized immigrants" in the EU has levelled off in recent years.
Are You Syrious Daily Digest 12/11/19
"During the night of 10 November a planned asylum centre in the city of Bilzen, in the Belgian province of Limburg, was set on fire."
Including: Presentation of the English version of the Atlas of Migration 2019.
"Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again used the millions of refugees hosted in the country as a bargaining chip against the European Union."
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