This is the full picture Turkey now offers the EU: a privatised border system that enriches the politically-connected, a Big Tech infrastructure that executes censorship on demand, and the rule of law being methodically hollowed out.
The Swedish Parliament will vote to oblige its public sector voters to ‘snitch’ on undocumented migrants, as the latest addition to Stockholm’s far right’s crackdown on migration
EU deportation bill set to sail through parliament, as left scramble to add safeguardsThe return regulation is likely to get rubber stamped next week at the European Parliament following a political agreement earlier this month.
Global resettlement figures have dropped by some 50 percent to 81,800 in a downward trend that points to the general political backlash against migration and asylum in the US and in Europe.
Within the political spectrum, identitarians can be understood as the far right of the far right. Their core argument has evolved, but it now concentrates on one key demand: the restoration of ethno-cultural homogeneity in Europe.
Over decade in the making, the new EU asylum rules are finally kicking into force on Friday. But EU member states delays are posing challenges amid critics who warn of rights abuses when it comes people seeking international protection.
The EU is rejecting eight out of 10 Russians who apply for asylum, even though they face jail or conscription if pushed back.
For several weeks now in Brussels, one question keeps coming up at European Commission press briefings: are Taliban representatives really going to come to Brussels to meet EU officials? When? And why?
Some of the highest visa rejection rates across the EU-27 are for applicants from countries with whom the bloc wants to partner on defence, security and migration.
Any such visas for Taliban officials would take up to at least four weeks to process, posing questions on whether the Taliban will actually come to Brussels this month.
‘Have you eaten today?’ What an incident on an Italian train taught me about EU valuesAn Asian man was travelling without a ticket, but the conductor stopped asking for his ID and enquired instead: “Have you eaten today?”.
Rejected asylum seekers unable to be returned home may end up in centres created outside the EU bloc. The UN agency is helping EU states stay clear of any possible future legal court cases.
An advocate-general at the European Court of Justice suggested judges dismiss a case from the French parliament, which wants to annul EU rules on relocating asylum seekers.
Asylum pact goes live next week, testing EU’s bid to calm the far-rightNext week’s implementation of the EU migration and asylum pact is a losing battle – and one where the EU’s appeasement with the hard-right risks backfiring when the reforms fail to deliver as promised.
The EU’s so-called Dublin system for redistributing asylum seekers was criticised as unfair to member states. The EU’s new pact promises to introduce greater solidarity and fairness—but will it be able to succeed?
Mainstream left and centre-left parties are increasingly adopting positions associated with the far right — tougher migration enforcement, collective policing measures, and the scapegoating of minorities — in pursuit of electoral safety. The evidence this works is, at best, mixed.
An agreement on the EU’s deportation bill was reached late on Monday (1 June) after a proposal to break the deadlock included suggestions that deportation hubs be launched immediately once the legislation enters into force.
With the EU’s already controversial pact on migration’s implementation date fast approaching, many member states will face a complex policy net unprepared.
EU states agreed to launch the legislation at the earliest in July next year – after first proposing a two-year delay. MEPs wanted an immediate launch – but agreed for 1 January 2027 as a compromise. Neither was accepted.
How far is the EU willing to go to deport irregular migrants?