The Rwanda fiasco, Australia’s island camps and Italy’s controversial deal with Albania all haunt EU leaders as they gamble on return hubs as a controversial fix for irregular migration that could redefine Europe’s moral and political red lines.
The EU Commission on Monday refused to respond if any of its own delegation would include female staffers in order to conform with male-only events – as per Taliban tradition.
The triggers I thought were filed away — in my mind, in my chest, in the way I now glance at strangers on the U-Bahn — rose at once. Today I’m going to my work in Germany feeling, for the first time, afraid of people. Sadly.
Return hubs rallied mass support in the EU Parliament, and are now being pushed ahead by most European leaders at the council summit – though not everyone is onboard
The EU’s controversial return regulation passed by an overwhelming majority, splitting the centrist parties and creating new alliances in the European Parliament with toughened measures bringing Brussels’ border policies closer to the right.
Two years after opening its doors to Ukrainians, Poland is now quietly rewriting the rules, leaving many refugees scrambling to understand why the help they relied on is suddenly disappearing.
Bent on reducing arrivals to ensure its newly-minted asylum rules can more easily deliver results, the EU Commission is promising more support for regimes across northern Africa.
While EU governments have spent years debating the asylum and migration pact itself, far less scrutiny has been given to how it will be implemented on the ground.
The European Parliament passed its return regulations’ vote on Monday, now pending a final green light before the controversial bill can make way for the construction of ‘return hubs’ for asylum seekers in countries outside the EU
This is the full picture Turkey now offers the EU: a privatised border system that enriches the politically-connected, a Big Tech infrastructure that executes censorship on demand, and the rule of law being methodically hollowed out.
The Swedish Parliament will vote to oblige its public sector voters to ‘snitch’ on undocumented migrants, as the latest addition to Stockholm’s far right’s crackdown on migration
EU deportation bill set to sail through parliament, as left scramble to add safeguardsThe return regulation is likely to get rubber stamped next week at the European Parliament following a political agreement earlier this month.
Global resettlement figures have dropped by some 50 percent to 81,800 in a downward trend that points to the general political backlash against migration and asylum in the US and in Europe.
Within the political spectrum, identitarians can be understood as the far right of the far right. Their core argument has evolved, but it now concentrates on one key demand: the restoration of ethno-cultural homogeneity in Europe.
Over decade in the making, the new EU asylum rules are finally kicking into force on Friday. But EU member states delays are posing challenges amid critics who warn of rights abuses when it comes people seeking international protection.
The EU is rejecting eight out of 10 Russians who apply for asylum, even though they face jail or conscription if pushed back.
For several weeks now in Brussels, one question keeps coming up at European Commission press briefings: are Taliban representatives really going to come to Brussels to meet EU officials? When? And why?
Some of the highest visa rejection rates across the EU-27 are for applicants from countries with whom the bloc wants to partner on defence, security and migration.
Any such visas for Taliban officials would take up to at least four weeks to process, posing questions on whether the Taliban will actually come to Brussels this month.
‘Have you eaten today?’ What an incident on an Italian train taught me about EU valuesAn Asian man was travelling without a ticket, but the conductor stopped asking for his ID and enquired instead: “Have you eaten today?”.