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MANAGEMENT BOARD DECISION 68/2021 of 21 December 2021 adopting the rules on processing personal data by the Agency
Text of the Management Board Decision 68/2021 of 21 December 2021 adopting the rules on processing personal data by the agency. Read More
MANAGEMENT BOARD DECISION 69/2021 of 21 December 2021 adopting the rules on processing operational personal data by the Agency
Text of the Management Board Decision 69/2021 of 21 December 2021 adopting the rules on processing operational personal data by the agency. Read More
Notification of the Management Board Decision 69/2021 adopting the rules on processing operational personal data by the agency
Management Board Decision 69/2021 of 21 December 2021 adopting the rules on processing operational personal data by the agency. Read More
As EU Pours Money Into Libya to Tackle Migration, is Bloc Ignoring Human Rights Abuses?
Sputnik, 20 December 2021. Read More
EU: Tracking the Pact: Member states against a search and rescue “solidarity mechanism”
The vast majority of member states are opposed to a separate "solidarity mechanism" for people rescued at sea under the proposed Asylum and Migration Management Regulation. The proposal foresees this solidarity consisting of relocation or "capacity building". Some states would like to be able to offer "solidarity" in other ways - for example, Austria proposes support for externalisation measures as an alternative option to relocation of people rescued at sea. Read More
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: opinion on the concept of “racialisation”
"The use of the concept of “racialisation” has the potential to aid understanding of the processes underpinning racism and racial discrimination and to ensure that the voices of racialised groups are heard and taken into account, in particular in the areas of awareness-raising, education and policy making." Read More
EU: Asylum and borders proposals: the only attack taking place is the attack on peoples’ rights
In response to the arrival of thousands of people at the EU's borders with Belarus, the European Commission has published a raft of new proposals that would weaken asylum rights and strengthen border surveillance and controls. Described as “temporary” on 1 December, proposals published this week would allow their enactment whenever the Council deems migrants are being “instrumentalised” to “attack” the European Union. Read More
Turkish Military Targeted by Sinister Algorithm Following 2016 Coup
Bylines Times, 15 December 2021. Read More
EU-USA meeting to include discussion on “the re-activated EU-US Migration Platform”
The agenda of the EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting, taking place tomorrow, will include discussions on artificial intelligence; counter-terrorism; "relevant developments" regarding Passenger Name Record travel surveillance; and "Reporting on first meeting of the re-activated EU-US Migration Platform". Read More
Germany: New website documents fatal police shootings
Since German reunification, 309 people have been shot dead by the country's police; there were also 148 fatal police shootings in West Germany from 1976 to 1990. A new website launched by the magazine CILIP documents these cases, seeeking to shed light on the individual cases hidden behind the interior ministry's statistics. Read More