Princess and Doris (fictional names to protect the applicants' identity) arrived in Libya from Nigeria in 2017 and 2018 respectively. After a year of exploitation, torture and arbitrary detention, they tried to reach Italy, but were intercepted at sea and repatriated to Nigeria through a program of ... Read More
ASGI delegation rejected outside the European Union during a technical-legal visit
On Saturday, 6 November 2021, the delegation visited the Macedonian-Greek border, both on the Macedonian side and on the Greek side. After reaching and passing through the border crossing point called Evzoni by taxi, equipped with the necessary documents for crossing the Greek border, the delegation ... Read More
Violence on land, violence at sea: migrants in Libya between the Libyan hammer and the EU’s anvil
In Libya, the already dire situation for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees has been escalating to an unprecedented level of violence. Not only do migrants face widespread documented abuse from Libyan authorities on land, they are also violently intercepted at sea and forcibly returned (pulled ... Read More
EU Court to Italy: it is illegitimate to exclude foreigners from family aid
According to the Court, this exclusion is in contrast with art. 34 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Union and with Directive 2011/98 which recognizes the right to social security for all foreigners with a residence permit, even a short one, as long as it allows them to work. Thus comes ... Read More
EU pact on migration and asylum: risks of new mega-reception centres
THE NEW EU PACT ON MIGRATION AND ASYLUM BRINGS THE RISK OF NEW MEGA-RECEPTION CENTRES SUCH AS MORIA Large reception centres, such as the Moria camp, opened in Greece and Italy to implement the so-called Hotspot Approach, have devastating effects on the mental health of refugees and asylum ... Read More
70 NGOs demand changes in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
The commitment to a more human approach to protection and the emphasis on the fact that migration is needed and positive for Europe with which the European Commission launched the Pact on Migration and Asylum is welcome. However, this rhetoric is reflected only sparsely in the related proposals. ... Read More
Deaths in the Mediterranean are not inevitable! Solidarity: the last shield against the EU’s deadly policies
After several days of uncertainty and confusion, the outcome at the beginning of April in the Central Mediterranean, although still provisional, is particularly disastrous: hundreds of migrants exhausted after being abandoned at sea for several days without any help, 12 people dead from ... Read More
Without rights for agri-food workers, Europe’s food supplies rest on shaky ground
As the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps across Europe, the consequences for European agriculture are also making themselves felt. The European Union institutions and national leaders have pledged to ensure that food supplies will not be affected, and a number of short-term measures are being ... Read More
From the « war against the virus » to the war against exiles: security responses to Covid-19 exacerbate violence at borders
Today, Migreurop publishes a video denouncing the existence and functioning of the hotspots, these centres designed to sort migrants created by the European Union (EU) in Italy and Greece in 2016. In this last country, neither relocations to Member States nor returns to Turkey on the basis of a ... Read More