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EU: Warnings over proposed new Europol partners in Middle East and North Africa
- Agreements would allow exchange of personal data with countries including Algeria, Egypt and Turkey - MEPs concerned over making deals with dictatorships - Council amends draft decisions: but will paper safeguards be enough? Read More
Ninth report on relocation and resettlement : Mystification and selective use of data in effort to present a dysfunctional approach as “sustainable” by Yasha Maccanico
Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos noted “progress” on both schemes although the challenge requires that “more needs to be done, and faster”, calling on member states to show “political will, commitment and perseverance”. As for the 8th previous report, isolating these two aspects enables the portrayal of a situation which is improving while turning attention away from its systemic effects in the frontline states and this approach’s limits in terms of rationality and sustainability. Read More
Eigth report on relocation and resettlement: Commission welcomes increase in relocations and ignores harmful systematic effects by Yasha Maccanico
Over a year after the start of implementation of the EU Agenda on Migration, the EU Action Plan on Migrations and in particular the roll-out of the hotspot approach in Italy and Greece, mounting evidence shows that far from assisting frontline states, they are being punished for shortcomings in implementing a dysfunctional model designed to penalise them. Read More
Migration, EU cooperation and authoritarianism by Theodore Baird
The EU is actively cooperating with authoritarian regimes to control international movement while ignoring the disastrous human rights records of these regimes. Read More
Vol 17(1): January-March 2007
Download the journal in pdf format EU/US security “channel" - a one-way street? UK-Jordan: SIAC’s Abu Qatada ruling threatens ban on torture UK: DNA database - “citizens or suspects?” Germany: Asylum-seekers drop UK: Forced mass Read More