Legal Complaint against EU Financial Complicity in Illegal Push-Backs to Libya

The EU should suspend funding for its program to stem migration from Libya because the program breaches EU budgetary laws and international human rights law, the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) and the Italian Recreational and Cultural Association (ARCI) argued in a legal complaint filed today to the European Court of Auditors.

The time to act is now: A letter to African leaders about the Covid-19 crisis

The threats hanging over the African continent with regard to the spread of Covid-19 demand our individual and collective attention. The situation is critical. Yet this is not about mitigating another African humanitarian crisis, but to diffuse the potentially damaging effects of a virus that has shaken the global order and put under question the bases of our living together.

FRONTEX in Double Crisis?

Bei einer Anhörung durch den Senatsausschuss für europäische Angelegenheiten hat Frontex-Chef Fabrice Leggerie darauf hingewiesen, dass Frontex derzeit eine doppelte Krise bewältigen müsse: die gesundheitliche Krise mit den durch die Covid-19-Epidemie auferlegten Kontrollen und die geopolitische Krise mit dem Migrationsdruck, den die Türkei auf die Europäische Union ausübt.