In advance of the upcoming action day, we talked to the Civil Fleet podcast about Frontex’s wrongdoings on the African continent, the problems with border externalisation, and why the EU border regime needs to be abolished. Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or directly here.
Monthly Archives: November 2023
EU planning new anti-migration deals with Egypt and Tunisia, unrepentant in support for Libya
19 November 2023 – The European Commission wants to agree “new anti-smuggling operational partnerships” with Tunisia and Egypt before the end of the year, despite longstanding reports of abuse against migrants and refugees in Egypt and recent racist violence endorsed by the Tunisian state. Material and financial support is already being stepped up to the …
AI in border control and surveillance: Current and future implications
The European architecture for border surveillance has been continuously expanding in an attempt to detect, deter and repel refugees and migrants. For those who manage to enter, they are biometrically registered and screened against large-scale databases, raising serious concerns on privacy violations, data protection breaches and questions of proportionality. Recently Euromed Rights launched a new …
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