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14.12.2022, The Guardian
Four people have died after a small boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel in freezing cold conditions got into trouble overnight. After receiving a distress call around 3 a.m. Wednesday, a large-scale search and rescue operation was carried out off the Kent coast by British and French authorities. Forty-three people were rescued. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich, Großbritannien, Europäische Union, Europa
13.12.2022, tagesschau
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is the site of a new escape route since Russia opened it to foreign airlines. SWR research shows that more people from the Middle East are trying to flee to the EU via Kaliningrad. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Baltische Staaten, Osteuropa, Naher Osten, Europäische Union, Europa
12.12.2022, Fanpage
The European Commission reported that 1.235 billion euros for assistance to Turkey have been disbursed since January 2022, for border management and assistance to migrants. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
12.12.2022, Libya Review
"Frontex is complicit in the abuse by warning Libyan authorities about boats carrying migrants, even though they know those migrants will be sent back and treated cruelly, and even though there are other options," said Human Rights Watch Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia Judith Sunderland. According to the human rights organization's reports, aerial surveillance of the central Mediterranean by the so-called EU Border Management Agency is not intended to save lives, but to intercept migrant*s by Libyan forces. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
12.12.2022, Info Migrants
Bulgarian police arrested 70 migrants on Sunday (11.12.22) in a parking lot near a highway in the southern Bulgarian city of Sliven. According to police, the fugitives were accompanied by two so-called smugglers. Some of the fugitives had to be hospitalized due to exhaustion. According to reports, Bulgaria has increased the so-called border protection measures and is holding migrants in cages. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Griechenland / Türkei, Europa
Two rescue boats arrived in ports in southern Italy on Sunday morning, carrying more than 500 people who had been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. Dozens of children were among the rescued survivors. Italy's interior ministry said the decision to allow the two boats to dock was down to bad weather conditions rather than marking any change in Italy's anti-migrant policies. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union, Europa
11.12.2022, The Guardian
The recently signed deal with France aimed to stop people from crossing the English Channel without authorisation, including by stepping up payments to France to increase patrols on its beaches. However, Home Office staff demand that the agreement be scrapped, arguing that the only solution is creating a safe passage visa that allows refugees a secure route to the UK. read more
10.12.2022, The Guardian
After having the appeal hearing postponed several times, Akif Rasouli was finally acquitted on Thursday (December 8) in Mytilene, Lesvos. Amir’s sentence was also reduced so that he will be released after three years spent in prison. The two young men had been sentenced to 50 years for driving a boat from Turkey to Greece together with their families. Activists hope this trial will set a precedent for thousands of others in similar situations. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Mittlerer Osten, Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union, Europa
08.12.2022, La Repubblica
Since 2017, the testimonies of thousands of people beaten, humiliated, detained before being illegally deported both from the external borders of the European Union and also from the territories of the member states have been collected. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Europäische Union
08.12.2022, InfoMigrants
On Wednesday, a baby boy was born on board the migrant rescue ship Geo Barents in the central Mediterranean. The baby’s mother fled Libya with her three other sons. A second woman on board was also nine months pregnant. Both have now been evacuated. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
08.12.2022, The Guardian
Thousands of people on the move are facing “an unprecedented rise in violence” at the EU’s border, including beatings, forced undressing and sexual assaults, followed by violent and systematic pushbacks at the hands of the police and border authorities. BVMN has interviewed 733 individuals trying to reach Europe in 2021 and 2022, who provided grim and detailed testimony of group pushbacks that affected more than 16,000 thousand people. These testimonies can be read in BVMN’s updated edition of The Black Book of Pushbacks launched this Thursday (December 8). read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Frankreich, Italien / Malta, Spanien, Griechenland / Türkei, Osteuropa, Deutschland, Österreich / Schweiz, Europäische Union, Europa, Weltweit
06.12.2022, taz
The asylum applications of two of the three protection seekers who arrived from Nigeria to the Canary Islands on 25.11.22 on a rudder blade of an oil tanker are now being processed. The third asylum application is behind schedule as the refugee was initially delivered to the hospital. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Spanien, Deutschland, Europa, Afrika
06.12.2022, POLITICO
Video footage shows a young man being shot at the border as he attempted to enter Bulgaria from Turkey last October. Whilst experts say soundwaves from the video show that the bulled was fired from the Bulgarian side and directed towards asylum seekers, Bulgaria continues to deny all the accusations of aggressive tactics against people on the move. read more
05.12.2022, ORF
A six-meter boat sank last night in the waters off Lampedusa. 32 refugees, including three women, were rescued by an Italian Coast Guard patrol boat. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europa
05.12.2022, Privacy International
The EU watchdog's year-long investigation uncovered the European Commission's failure to take the necessary steps to ensure human rights protections in the transfer of technologies with potential surveillance capacity supported by its multi-billion dollar Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. Such a lack of safeguards can lead to encroachments on fundamental rights. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa, Afrika
05.12.2022, Euronews
Twenty-one people – including the crews of the Iuventa search and rescue ship and members of several NGOs including Sea Watch, Save the Children and Médecins sans Frontières – stand accused of aiding and abetting unauthorised entry of people into Italy between 2016 and 2017. The court has repeatedly failed to provide the defendants with a competent interpreter. read more
05.12.2022, Info Migrants
Citizenship laws vary widely across Europe. According to the German Ministry of the Interior, the planned reform, the new Citizenship Act, will soon "enable multiple nationality and simplify the acquisition of German citizenship". read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union, Europa
02.12.2022, taz
Last Friday (02.12), the Bundestag passed a draft for a "law to speed up asylum court proceedings and asylum procedures". According to the bill, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is to make decisions more quickly and so that not so many decisions are overturned by the courts. The draft law has been heavily criticized by asylum organizations and lawyers. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
02.12.2022, Info Migrants
The German Bundestag decided on Friday (02.12) that migrants with short-term toleration who have lived in Germany for at least five years until October 31, 2022, will now receive an 18-month "opportunity right of residence." This is equivalent to legal status. Within the additional year and a half, migrants* can fulfill the requirements for a long-term residence permit and have easier access to the labor market. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland, Europa
01.12.2022, AP News
Cyprus is one of the most "efficient" countries in Europe in terms of deporting asylum seekers in relation to its population. Around 7,000 protection seekers have already been returned this year. The island state manages such rapid deportations thanks to readmission agreements with Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Vietnam, as well as cooperation between asylum authorities and police and European agencies, especially Frontex, from a newly established office on the island. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europa
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