Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
After many years, migrant workers won legal protection from exploitative agencies – but now an Efta surveillance authority decision puts progress in peril
On a cloudy September afternoon, a string quartet plays the protest song Bella Ciao outside Oslo’s parliament as a trade union (...)
The EU agency should be monitoring Greek borders, but when 750 people got into trouble at sea, it wasn’t there
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, prides itself on being the “eyes and ears” of Europe’s borders. With its multi-billion-euro budget, the agency is responsible (...)
Recent limitations to the freedom of movement imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, led farmers’ organisations (as well as other employers) across Europe to sound the alarm, lamenting the sudden dearth of workers needed for highly time-sensitive harvesting. These restrictions cut across (...)
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, took most Ukrainians by surprise. Many thought it was some kind of misunderstanding that could be resolved by political leaders’ negotiations within a matter of days or weeks. People fleeing their hometowns often had the intention (...)
The following article is an interview conducted by DEA (Workers’ Left) in Greece with Miguel Urbán — a comrade from Anticapitalistas in Spain who is also elected to the European Parliament — about the current situation in “Fortress Europe.”
Miguel, international events show that the EU is (...)
I was in the midst of fieldwork researching the working conditions of migrant workers in the electronics industry in Central and Eastern Europe when the press ran the story about Serbian workers working and living in slavery-like conditions in Slovakia. Various articles in Serbian press, (...)
To: EU member states governments, the European Commission, European Council, Council of the EU, European Parliament and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
Over 740 people have died so far this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, looking for a place of safety. The EU’s (...)
A Guardian analysis finds EU countries used brutal tactics to stop nearly 40,000 asylum seekers crossing borders
EU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe’s borders during the pandemic, methods being linked to the death of more than (...)
Shocking dossier of systematic violations of asylum seekers along the notorious ‘Balkan route’ compiled by watchdog groups
A 1,500-page “black book” documenting hundreds of illegal pushbacks against asylum seekers by authorities on Europe’s external borders was released last week and handed (...)
Human rights groups condemn practice as evidence reviewed by the Guardian reveals systemic denial of entry to asylum seekers
At about 1am on 24 August, Ahmed (not his real name) climbed into a rubber dinghy with 29 others and left Turkey’s north-western Çanakkale province. After 30 minutes, (...)
One Dutch MEP compared the plans to the far right while Von der Leyen’s party called them ‘a good starting point’
The EU home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, hopes migration will become just another “normal policy area”, even “boring”.
Since more than 1 million refugees arrived in (...)
Political calculus that created dangerous conditions at refugee camp will survive the fire.Daniel Howden is a migration expert and managing director of the investigative journalism organization Lighthouse Reports.
ATHENS — Five years ago, when the refugee camp at Moria was still just a bad (...)
Brussels faces demands for quick action to help thousands displaced from Moria refugee camp — and a Continent-wide solution to the migration issue.
The flames that destroyed Greece’s Moria refugee camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning threw a harsh light on the EU’s migration policy (...)
Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross into Greek territory have resulted in heavy interventions (including the use of firearms) by Greek (...)
Since July 2019 asylum-seekers and children of irregular migrants are prevented from accessing the public health system in Greece. An asylum law introduced in November has regulated the issue but implementing measures are still lacking, putting the life and health of thousands of children and (...)
Elderly women, priests and firefighters among those arrested, charged or ‘harassed’ by police for supporting migrants, with numbers soaring in the past 18 months.
Five months ago, at 10 o’clock in the morning, German police arrived at the home and parish of Christian Hartung, a pastor in (...)
Some adults whose claims were rejected went without food for up to five days, claim activists
Hungarian authorities are systematically denying food to failed asylum seekers detained in the country’s border transit zones, say rights activists.
The policy, whereby adults whose asylum claims (...)
Ten Moroccan women say Spanish authorities have ignored claims they were trafficked, assaulted and exploited.
Last April, Samira Ahmad* kissed her baby goodbye and boarded a bus, leaving her home in Morocco for the strawberry fields of southern Spain. In her bag was her Spanish visa and a (...)
European anti-fraud agency investigates irregularities after report alleges defence minister benefited from camp funds
The conditions in which thousands of asylum seekers are being detained on Lesbos has unleashed a furious political backlash in Greece, as financing of the island’s (...)
Refugee agency reveals fewer people crossing to Europe but one death for every 18 arrivals
Fewer people are making the journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, but the proportion of those losing their lives while trying has risen sharply, the UN refugee agency has said in its latest (...)
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