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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
EU and EM contribution migration action plan (FR)
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
Response to application for access to documents – EASE 2026/3487 and 2026/3505
Outsourcing Borders: Bulletin 18
This issue provides insights into the EU's secretive border management partnerships with Libya, Egypt and others, as well as the latest deportation strategy. Read More
Prosecuting solidarity: extracts from a new book on the Riace case
A book about the political use of judicial proceedings to curtail a virtuous example of solidarity at work in reception practices in a small southern town in Calabria, Riace, led by its former mayor, Mimmo (Domenico) Lucano. Hearings of the appeal trial in Reggio Calabria are underway, after the first trial in Locri (whose sentence is commented on in these two extracts) found several defendants guilty, imposing lengthy prison terms (over 13 years for Lucano, over 80 years in total for 18 defendants) and financial penalties. The contributions to this book focus on the trial, the sentence, the appeal and the reality of the experience of Riace, including trial monitoring reports by Giovanna Procacci. Read More