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Prints in politics: cheap, easily replicated and widely accessible
Printmaking is an ideal medium for wide and diverse engagement with art: it is replicable, cheap, and widely accessible. These features have made prints particularly attractive to political activists looking to inspire collective mobilisation. The Statewatch Library & Archive contains a number of examples of the medium, from a wide variety of movements. Read More
Why Europe Is Quietly Deporting Nigerians
The Insight, 12 January 2026. Read More
EU to increase lethal migration cooperation with Libya
The EU is set to fund migration control infrastructure in the eastern region of Libya, a move that will increase cooperation with general Khalifa Haftar, once a pariah to western states. The plan to extend EU cooperation into eastern Libya comes despite long-standing condemnation of Libyan and EU involvement in human rights abuses, shooting at NGO vessels, and accusations of crimes against humanity. Read More
Battered by EU’s border bandits
The Nation, 3 January 2026. Read More
IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns
The New Humanitarian, 22 December 2025. Read More
Biometrics Deal: EU Council Paves Way for US Data Exchange
Heise, 18 December 2025. Read More
Reclaiming migration: a call for justice, dignity, and an anti-racist Europe
To mark International Migrants Day more than 40 organisations, including Statewatch, are calling for "a Europe grounded in justice and equality" and "policies that honour dignity and rights of all." Read More
US access to EU citizens’ biometric data: ministers approve EU negotiating mandate
EU ministers have agreed to launch negotiations on an agreement that would grant US border agencies direct access to personal data stored in EU member state databases, and give EU agencies similar access to US data. The US is demanding access to the databases of all states that are part of its Visa Waiver Programme, for “immigration screening and vetting activities.” This is part of a broader plan to massively increase the amount of sensitive data gathered on travellers. Read More
UK: ‘Radio Nick’: a private spy hired by the police
In October, a court case led to the exposure of a private spy who had been hired by the police to infilitrate multiple campaign groups for almost a decade, Nick Gratwick. A new report by the Undercover Research Group documents Gratwick's activities in the late 1990s and early 2000s in detail. The case highlights the lack of laws and regulations governing private intelligence agents. Read More
Inside the EU’s flawed $200 million migration deal with Sudan
Amid the horrors of the Sudan civil war, questions are once again being raised over what role EU funds have played in the ongoing conflict and, in particular, alleged genocide in Darfur at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces militia. Statewatch is republishing a powerful 2018 article by the journalist Caitlin L Chandler for The New Humanitarian, which explains the background to and effects of the EU’s “migration management” cooperation with Sudan. Read More