On 23 September 2020, the European Commission proposed a "New Pact on Migration and Asylum" which was supposed to renew European migration policies. Far from representing a new deal, the orientation and the measures advocated in this Pact are in reality a continuation of the repressive and security-oriented policies implemented by European institutions and their member states since the late 1990s. More than thirty years later, the objective remains the same: to see as few exiles as possible (...)
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Deaths in the Channel: ’Increasing the number of obstacles for border crossing only increases risks taken by refugees’
Collective opinion piece published in Le Monde on 24 November 2022
One year after the shipwreck that led to the drowning of at least 27 people, as a new Franco-British agreement is signed, a group of 65 French, British and Belgian associations (including Migreurop) raise unacceptable failures by French and British rescue services in a collective opinion piece published in Le Monde on 24 November 2022
On November 24, 2021, around 2pm, a fishing boat spotted dozens of bodies floating in the freezing waters of the Channel. One by one, lifeless bodies were (...)Free the El Hiblu 3 !
Collective action: open letter to Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg
On 28 September 2022, the 3.5 year anniversary of the arrival of the El Hiblu 1 in Malta, Migreurop joins the "Free the El Hiblu 3" campaign and co-signs the open letter addressed to Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg to request that the Maltese authorities drop all charges against Abdalla, Amara and Kader.
Dear Attorney General Dr Victoria Buttigieg,
On 28 March 2019, the merchant vessel El Hiblu 1 arrived in Malta. Three teenagers were arrested and accused of having committed multiple (...)Visa policy : discrimination and injustice
Collective action
Between 2021 and March 2022, 23% of visa applications by citizens of Maghreb countries would have been refused as a retaliatory measure against local governments’ refusal to repatriate their nationals in “irregular situations.” Thus, under the pretext of combating undocumented migration, the Minister of the Interior ]] and the French authorities do not even care about the discriminatory character of this decision, which is nothing less than a collective punishment that indiscriminately (...)
Joint Statement calling for the dismissal of UNHCR’s special envoy Vincent Cochetel
inter-association support
Migreurop joins the commemoration of Zarzis (Tunisia, 2/6 September 2022) and the mobilisation of the mothers of deceased and disappeared people
On Tuesday, 6 September 2022, while families of the disappeared and deceased at EU borders came together for a protest action in Zarzis, Tunisia, Vincent Cochetel, the UNHCR’s special envoy for the Western and Central Mediterranean sent out a tweet:
“Grieving for the loss. But the same mothers had no problem encouraging or funding their (...)