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12.02.2021, Deutsche Welle
As divided as the EU states may be on asylum policy, there is one thing they can agree on: protecting the EU's borders. But Frontex, the agency entrusted with this task, is in crisis. Marina Strauß from Brussels. Marko Gašperlin can be reached by phone at the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior. He is one of those who are trying to bring a heated debate back down to room temperature. A debate about how big the problems really are at the EU border guards of Frontex - especially with regard to possible violations of fundamental rights. When it comes to the external borders of the European Union, there are different positions, says Gašperlin. Those of the human rights organizations that denounce violations. And those of the police, border guards and coast guards, whose job it is to prevent illegal migration. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union
12.02.2021, InfoMigrants
Many migrants complain that they have not been able to apply for asylum when they cross the border into France. According to them, the French border police (PAF) refuse to take their asylum applications and immediately send them back to neighboring Italy. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich
11.02.2021, Statewatch
Recent Statewatch complaints to the European Ombudsman have resulted in significant victories for transparency over the activities of EU justice and home affairs agencies, but one decision made by the Ombudsman approves of restrictions placed by Frontex on the right of non-EU citizens to file requests for access to documents read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
11.02.2021, Corporate Europe Observatory
The massive expansion of the budget, personnel, and powers of the EU's border agency Frontex has also seen increasingly privileged access for industry. This perpetuates a vision of border control based on more and more firearms and biometric surveillance that has major human rights implications read more
11.02.2021, Al Jazeera
Concerns mount for children who have witnessed violence, a devastating camp fire, and other horrors in Greece. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
11.02.2021, Deutsche Welle
The human rights organisation Mare Liberum is sounding the alarm: according to them, violence against refugees at the Greek EU external border has reached a new dimension in 2020. read more
11.02.2021, Spiegel
Katrin Glatz-Brubakk looks after children in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on Lesbos for Doctors Without Borders. In an interview, the psychologist reports how the children are increasingly losing the courage to face life. read more
10.02.2021, InfoMigrants
Senior German politician Claudia Roth from the Green Party has publicly withdrawn her personal support for the EU’s border protection agency, Frontex. She has called for Germany’s withdrawal from the agency in the absence of a "complete reorientation of Frontex." read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union
10.02.2021, Il Fatto Quotidiano
"La nave italiana ci ha preso in mare la sera del 1 luglio 2018. Il comandante ci ha detto ‘Adesso dormite. Domattina vi sveglierete in Italia‘”. E dopo le torture, la fame, la sete, dopo la carezza della morte a bordo di un gommone che si afflosciava, alla fine hanno dormito. Ma la mattina, il 2 luglio 2018, è apparso il porto di Tripoli, in Libia read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
10.02.2021, Daily Mail
U.N. agencies are pressing the European Union to end the growing practices of denying migrants their right to apply for asylum, collectively expulsing them and using violence against people trying to enter the bloc without authorization. Border pushbacks and collective expulsions are illegal under international refugee treaties, which allow people fearing for their safety to apply for protection. Greece and even the EU´s border and coast guard agency Frontex are among those accused of pushbacks or complicity in them. They deny using such methods. read more
09.02.2021, Statewatch
In November 2015 European and African heads of state met at a summit in Valletta, Malta, "to discuss a coordinated answer to the crisis of migration and refugee governance in Europe." Since then joint activities on migration and asylum have increased significantly, according to documents published here by Statewatch read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Afrika
09.02.2021, Spiegel
Rechtspopulist Matteo Salvini entdeckt plötzlich seine Liebe zu Europa und will Italiens neue Regierung unter Mario Draghi unterstützen. Ist der Kurswechsel ernst gemeint – oder nur ein raffiniertes Politmanöver? read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta
09.02.2021, Zeit Online
The Frontex agency is supposed to help secure the EU's external border. But it does not want to be controlled in the process. Also: What the Corona variants mean for us. read more
09.02.2021, Migazin
The Bamf has stopped asylum decisions of refugees who were already recognised in Greece. The background to this is a decision by the OVG Münster. According to this decision, deportees in Greece are threatened with inhuman and degrading treatment. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland
In an open letter to European decision-makers, more than 400 psychologists from all over Europe recall the desolate situation of refugees. The problem is collectively suppressed. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa
09.02.2021, Alarmphone
One year ago, on 9 February 2020, at 04.09 AM, the Alarm Phone was called by a group of 91 people who were in distress on a deflating black rubber boat off Garabulli, Libya. They were in panic, but they managed to clearly communicate their GPS coordinates, which Alarm Phone immediately relayed to the Italian and Maltese authorities, as well as to the so-called Libyan coastguard. At 05.35h CET, the people in distress called the Alarm Phone for the last time. Contact with the boat was lost ever since. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Nordafrika, Europäische Union
08.02.2021, Insideover
Clima primaverile, con tanto di mare calmo ed ideale per la navigazione, trattative per un nuovo governo a Tripoli e nuovo capovolgimento politico in Italia: sono questi i tre elementi convergenti che hanno spinto a un’impennata di sbarchi dalla Libia verso il nostro Paese read more
08.02.2021, Zeit Online
Berlin (dpa/bb) - After a fire in a Berlin refugee shelter, around 128 residents have to be accommodated in another shelter. To protect them from the cold, the people were initially cared for in buses by the German Red Cross, among others, as a fire brigade spokesperson said on Monday evening. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
08.02.2021, ProAsyl
Another collective deportation to Afghanistan is planned for Tuesday, 09.02.2012. It is already the second one this year and already the third, after a 9-month break from March to December 2020 at the request of the Afghan government due to the Covid 19 pandemic. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa
08.02.2021, euractiv
The EU border protection agency Frontex, which has come under pressure for allegedly illegally turning back migrants and refugees, is facing new accusations: Satirist Jan Böhmermann accused the agency of making false statements about meetings with lobbyists from the arms industry. Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt pleaded on Saturday for a reorganization of Frontex as a consequence of the scandals. Pro Asyl demanded the withdrawal of German police officers from the agency. read more
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