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AGENDA: Visit of Moroccan Minister of Interior (Directorate of Migration and Border Surveillance) to Frontex Headquarters
Agenda of a visit on 30 June and 1 July 2022. Names redacted. Read More
DDG Luchner: Readout of 11-12 April follow-up mission to Niger
A heavily censored mission report. Read More
Deportations: EU to push for new readmission agreements “using all levers and incentives available”
Council Presidency progress report from 9 June focusses on “operationalisation of the external dimension, including as regards returns”; protection of the external borders; member state solidarity; and “more effective implementation of the Dublin rules”. Read More
Briefing for Ylva Johansson for International Migration Review Forum, 17-20 May 2022
Heavily censored briefing document. Read More
EU police forces authorized to transmit DNA and fingerprint data to the UK from 30 June
EU member states’ police forces will be able to transmit DNA and fingerprint data to the UK from 30 June, as part of post-Brexit cooperation on the ‘Prüm’ network of police databases. Read More
EU: Tracking the Pact: Council mandate for negotiations with the Parliament on Eurodac
On 15 June the French Presidency of the Council transmitted to the COREPER (the Committee of Permanent Representatives) its proposed mandate for negotiations with the European Parliament on Eurodac, the database of asylum-seekers' fingerprints. The plan is to significantly expand the database by introducing new uses, new data categories, and lowering the age limit for inclusion. Read More
EU: Tracking the Pact: Council position on Screening Regulation to gut border monitoring proposal
The proposed Screening Regulation, part of the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum announced in September 2020, will see most individuals who enter the EU in an irregular fashion detained at the borders with a view to their swift expulsion. On 15 June, the French Presidency of the Council circulated its proposed compromise text, which is likely to form the basis for negotiations with the European Parliament. We are making it available here, along with the preceding version of the text. It maintains plans to gut a proposed fundamental rights border monitoring mechanism of most of its substance. Read More
The fatal policies of Fortress Europe: nearly 50,000 documented deaths since 1993
The anti-racist group UNITED has documented 48,647 refugee and migrants deaths since 1993, detailed in an updated version of its list of deaths that is being published to coincide with World Refugee Day, 20 June. Read More
Ireland increases payment to Frontex by tens of thousands of euros to boost deportations
Ireland's participation in Frontex activities is governed by agreements that are renewed annually. A Frontex management board decision from March outlines Ireland’s participation in operations and activities for 2022. The payment to Frontex from Ireland is significantly larger than in previous years, particularly in the realm of returns. Read More
Death at the French-Italian border raises multiple concerns, says new report
Border Forensics, a new organisation conducting investigations into violence at borders, presented its first investigation on 30 May. It examines the death of Blessing Matthew, who was found on 9 May 2018 on the shore of La Durance river in the French Alps, caught in the lock at Prelles in the locality of Saint-Martin-de-Queurièr near Briançon. Read More