Archive
New automated bank screening could create ‘surveillance state’ across EU
Civil liberties organisation says vague risk-based rules and automated profiling in draft anti-money laundering guidelines could undermine privacy and fundamental rights. Read More
European NGOs rally behind leading anti-racism network, expressing alarm at the Commission’s withdrawal of funding
Over 215 NGOs expressed their solidarity with the European Network Against Racism after the organisation had its funding removed by an EU agency. Read More
Border externalisation: the cost of EU control in West Africa
This issue of the Outsourcing Borders bulletin reveals hundreds of millions of euros in spending for migration control in Mauritania and a plan for Frontex social media monitoring. Read More
Outsourcing Borders: Bulletin 20
This issue shows the EU spending hundreds of millions of euros on migration control in Mauritania, and a Frontex social media monitoring plan Read More
Greece: Rights defenders on trial for supporting refugees and migrants
Panayote Dimitras and Tommy Olsen are accused of facilitating ‘unlawful entry’ into Greece. Both have documented rights violations by Greece including illegal pushbacks. Read More
Border externalisation: the EU opens a file on Syria
This issue of the Outsourcing Borders bulletin reveals extensive anti-migration spending and projects across Syria, Turkey and Senegal Read More
Outsourcing Borders: Bulletin 19
This issue explains why it matters that the EU has a new 'Action File' on Syria and outlines numerous anti-migration projects in Senegal, Pakistan and more Read More
Leaked: Latest EU-US data exchange draft shows EU still submitting to US demands
Statewatch has published the second revised proposal for EU-US data exchange. Despite serious conflicts with EU law, this draft sees no major changes. Read More
EU-US Information Exchange Draft 2
The commodification of migrant labour in Europe and the Western Balkans
European migration policy supports mobility so long as it bolsters European states’ economies, but not enough to let people settle. The result is an exploitative system, cloaked in bureaucratic language, that denies migrant workers their rights. This system can be seen ever more clearly across the Balkans. Read More