EU 'covered up' Croatia's failure to protect migrants from border brutality

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The Guardian has revealed that European Commission officials were fearful of disclosing everything they knew about a mechanism they had funded in Croatia for monitoring violations of fundamental rights at the borders.

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"EU officials have been accused of an “outrageous cover-up” after withholding evidence of a failure by Croatia’s government to supervise police repeatedly accused of robbing, abusing and humiliating migrants at its borders.

Internal European commission emails seen by the Guardian reveal officials in Brussels had been fearful of a backlash when deciding against full disclosure of Croatia’s lack of commitment to a monitoring mechanism that ministers had previously agreed to fund with EU money."

EU 'covered up' Croatia's failure to protect migrants from border brutality (The Guardian, link)

Background: Croatia: violence at the border no barrier to Schengen accession (8 November 2019)

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