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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
WWW: Issue 26-14
Welcome to our bi-weekly round up, containing all the important news, events, and resources we've come across since our last issue. Read More
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
WWW: Issue 26-13
Welcome to our bi-weekly round up, containing all the important news, events, and resources we've come across since our last issue. Read More
the EU is secretly negotiating to hand all your data to Israel.
An article by US digital news outlet The Spectacle covers a report by Statewatch. Read More
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
European taxpayers handing billions of euros to Israeli companies
Data compiled by Statewatch shows that public institutions in the EU hold hundreds of contracts with Israeli companies worth almost €2.7 billion. EU trade sanctions or widespread boycotts in the public sector could have a substantial negative impact on Israel’s economy and its ability to wage war. Yet, so far, the EU has taken no meaningful action. Read More
Revealed: EU contract to expand deadly migration deal in the Mediterranean
A document leaked to Statewatch confirms that the EU has begun collaborating with Libya’s eastern forces on migration control. This collaboration includes training, support and the development of a regional migration coordination centre based in Benghazi. The ‘technical arrangement’ shows clearly that, rather than listening to civil societies’ calls to end or suspend a deadly externalisation partnership, the EU is only interested in expanding it further. Read More
Outsourcing Borders: Monitoring EU externalisation policy
About this bulletin Europe’s borders are becoming more violent, militarised, and surveilled. They are even being extended further and… Read More
Libya: After discovery of mass graves, EU funding should “save lives and open up safe routes”
More than 30 organisations, including Statewatch, have called on the European Commission to use its funding for immigration control in Libya "to save lives and to provide alternatives to dangerous journeys." The call comes after the discovery of two mass graves in Libya, containing the bodies of almost 50 people believed to have been migrants and refugees. Read More