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Out of the European Council comes an even stronger Fortress Europe

October 30, 2024 - Sara Gherardi

From the European Council meeting on October 17–18, it emerged that European leaders are determined to introduce increasingly restrictive policies and experiment with innovative solutions, further limiting the right to asylum.

European and Italian responsibilities in the Cutro massacre

March 14, 2023 - Oiza Q. Obasuyi

As the number of victims of the Cutro shipwreck continues to rise, Frontex and the Coast Guard increase the blame-shifting. The government still places the blame solely on the boat drivers, but investigations reveal a more complex and broader picture in which the responsibilities for the failure to rescue multiply. All this needs to be seen in an even larger context in which EU countries continue to adopt securitarian and restrictive policies on the right to freedom of movement. Oiza Q. Obasuyi discussed this issue with us.

Accusations against Ngos at sea: what is false or misleading in that smear campaign

May 19, 2017 - Francesco Floris and Lorenzo Bagnoli

“Too smart for their own good” (Matteo Renzi). “Taxi cabs for migrants” (Luigi Di Maio). Northern League secretary Matteo Salvini said there was a “secret service dossier” on them. Their chief accuser is Catania’s prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro, according to whom their intervention “renders investigations into facilitators of criminal organisations useless.” After weeks of hearings, though, the defense commission in the Italian Parliament has cleared them of all suspicions. But who are they? Humanitarian Ngos, carrying out search and rescue operations in the waters between Sicily and Libya, are the target of a relentless smear campaign. The European border control agency Frontex has designated them the main “pull factor” for the rising number of migrant boats (and deaths) in the Mediterranean. How much truth, and how much untruth, is there in such accusations?

Out of the European Council comes an even stronger Fortress Europe

European and Italian responsibilities in the Cutro massacre

Accusations against Ngos at sea: what is false or misleading in that smear campaign

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