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"Secret services in at least one non-EU Western Balkan state are indirectly feeding the EU's police database with alerts on suspected foreign terrorist fighters, according to a confidential document seen by this website."
Unlike a previously-leaked draft, the EU's white paper on artifical intelligence makes no mention of a possible moratorium on facial recognition technology.
Operation Sophia is to be halted and replaced by a new military mission in the Mediterranean that will focus on enforcing the UN arms embargo on Libya.
A report looking at the Hungarian government's undermining of education, science, culture and the media since 2010.
Violence, discrimination and intimidation of Roma people continues across Europe. Governments must be forced to take action.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has called on EU governments to limit the saving of lives at sea by Operation Sophia. A note sent to the member states' permanent representatives in Brussels says the mission should prioritise the enforcement of a UN arms embargo on Libya, rather than monitoring migrant smuggling activities, and suggests that ships could be placed "at least 100km off the Libyan coast, where chances to conduct rescue operations are lower."
Will the new Commission's 'Pact on Asylum and Migration' support the fundamental rights of migrants and refugees?
Civil liberties in Spain have deteriorated markedly in recent years. Will the new 'progressive' government take action?
The father and brother of a man who volunteered to fight for the anti-ISIS Kurdish group the YPG have been charged with terrorism offences.
Members of an extreme-right 'prepper' group have been arrested in Germany - and a police officer is amongst those arrested.
An article in Tagesspiel outlines that despite promising to relocate a quarter of the people who were dismebarked in southern Europe since September 2019, Germany has failed to do so.
Press release from the Lesvos Legal Centre.
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