The European Union and member states are criminally complicit in Libya when it comes to migration, said the head of the European Parliament's human rights committee.

1/🧵What did the EU Court of Justice actually say about "safe countries of origin"? And what does it mean for the 🇮🇹🇦🇱 Italy-Albania migration deal? Let’s break it down: thread 👇

CJEU, asylum law II New judgment: Member States cannot currently designate asylum-seekers' countries of origin as 'safe' unless that applies to everyone - but EU law will change in near future - judgment complicates application of Italy/Albania deal for now - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

The EU has proposed letting member states drop ‘connection requirement’ from the ‘safe third country’ asylum concept @gaiaromeo.bsky.social & @frowinrausis.bsky.social argue this marks a shift toward an ‘(un)safe fourth country’ approach that some have already - unsuccessfully - tried bit.ly/4lnXktD

"I’m traveling to Libya next week or the week after to get involved with those…I know there will be some criticism about getting involved with authorities, which are a bit dodgy - to be diplomatic again. But we have to get involved." Read it here: euobserver.com/migration/ar...

on this note: that was what @margueriteab.bsky.social and I warned about in a recent profile article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣Publication alert!📣with @margueriteab.bsky.social Profile Article on "The New Pact on Migration and Asylum in a shifting political context: Depoliticization and repoliticization in EU external migration policy" 🧵👇1/6 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @unisalzburg.bsky.social @sceus.bsky.social

Je lis le Figaro Mag sur le wokisme (cascade réalisée par un pro, attention) et c'est encore plus délirant que prévu. Les personnes interrogées disent explicitement que l'Union européenne est infiltrée par les Frères Musulmans et que c'est pour ça qu'elle finance le wokisme à l'université. Si si.

€1,500 and a one-way ticket to Damascus This is how Cyprus is deporting Syrians from the country, under the guise of voluntary returns, with the EU's financial support, and help from Frontex' specialists With @hopeamelie.bsky.social, for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/investigatio... 🧵

📣If you are interested in #EU #migration politics and law, come join us in Salzburg for a summer school on 7-11 July! 👇 ⏰Apply until 31 March 2025!⏰ #EUsky #MigCitSky #MigrationResearch at @sceus.bsky.social with @liliantsourdi.bsky.social www.plus.ac.at/news/summer-...

▪️️ L'extrême droite a attaqué une conférence antifasciste hier à Paris ▪️ Une vingtaine de nervis ont tabassé des participants, une personne a été blessée à coups de couteau ▪️ Une «enquête du chef de tentative d’homicide volontaire» est ouverte

➡️Unlike other legal instruments in the Pact, the Screening Regulation does not modify existing rules. Instead, it codifies practices often previously undertaken informally or only formalised in law or policy at the national level which form part of external border management.

🧵ECRE has published a comments paper on the Screening Regulation Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️

This isn’t just a distant crisis—it implicates us all. As EU citizens 🇪🇺 and taxpayers 💰, we are funding policies that enable these abuses. The EU continues to support and finance Tunisia’s (and Libya - among others) border control operations, despite mounting evidence of human rights violations.

🚨 New Report Exposes Abuses at the Libyan-Tunisian Border 🚨 Honored to contributed to the launch of a new (but sadly unsurprising) report exposing systemic violence against migrants and refugees at the Libyan-Tunisian border.

Anouk Ricard est finaliste du Grand Prix d’Angoulême. L'occasion de repartager cette case, une des meilleures de l'histoire de la BD, à mon humble avis. #AltRTDay

ANOUK RICARD EST GRAND PRIX D'ANGOULÊME ! Bravo à elle, c'est tellement mérité ❤️ Sa BD Animan est toujours disponible chez nous, rendez-vous cet automne pour lire Fabienne, la suite !

Da #Israele alla #Libia, l'Italia protegge presunti criminali di guerra Dalle parole su #Netanyahu ai fatti con #Almasri, ricercati dalla #CPI: il governo #Meloni dimostra disprezzo per il diritto internazionale e per le vittime dei crimini più efferati @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/it/news/2025...

Italian prosecutors are investigating Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and two government ministers for repatriating a Libyan general wanted by the International Criminal Court, Meloni said today.

Alors que 98,6% des personnes sous OQTF n’ont jamais été condamnées par la justice et que les experts du CEPII(dépendant de Matignon) expliquent que «les études concluent unanimement à l’absence d’impact de l’immigration sur la délinquance» Bruno Retailleau estime que «la réalité dément cette étude»

HYBRID launch of our JIRS SI (Federica Zardo co-ed.) on #Migration governance through funding! ⏰20th Jan. 15:30-17:00 CET www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/node/61255. OA intro: doi.org/10.1080/1556... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @jpcassarino.bsky.social @andreinadeleo.bsky.social

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇

The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Greece in a case involving push-back practices at the Greek-Turkish border. Is this likely to become a landmark case? hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press#{%...

2 elections. 90k municipalities. Over 500 parties. 5.3M data points. Today, we are releasing the first-ever dataset of local-level results of European Parliament elections. A short 🧵on our new #BLUE_EP dataset. t.co/eatnzauFSU

When Italian PM Giorgia Meloni unveiled her flagship plan to intercept, detain and process asylum-seekers in Albania, it was presented as a grand answer to Europe’s migration crisis. But one year later, the scheme is stuck in judicial limbo.

Nommer Darmanin ministre de la justice 48h à peine après l'annonce du verdict du procès Pélicot, si ça c'est pas du mépris pour les victimes.

« Le 7 juillet, les Français portent en tête des élections législatives les gauches alliées dans un Nouveau Front populaire. Mais pas question de donner trop d’importance à ces Lucie Castets, ces Marine Tondelier, ces « cocottes », comme il les appelle en petit comité. »

« Au détour d’une réponse, le chef de l’Etat désigne les Français d’origine maghrébine par un mot inattendu de sa part : les « rabzouz ». Personne n’en a jamais rien su. Le terme n’apparaît évidemment pas dans la version publiée, relue par l’Elysée. »

« Le problème des urgences dans ce pays, c’est que c’est rempli de Mamadou, lance le chef de l’Etat. – Non, ce n’est pas le premier problème de l’hôpital, nuance le ministre de la santé. – Si, si. Vas-y, tu vas voir ! »

Des journalistes me demandent pourquoi je fais de la présence de Bruno Retailleau au gouvernement une ligne rouge ? Il suffit de lire ses tweets 👇

Funny how it took eight years to find a rather thin compromise on a reform of the EU asylum system because member states (and Austria a prime example among them) couldn't agree but it only takes one day to find consensus on the need to suspend procedures and send Syrians back...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad is undeniably a moment to celebrate, and that's what today should be about, but, big but, as someone who works in/studies displacements there are things which need to be addressed quickly. 1/

Short 🧵on Syria: Under the Assads' 53yr despotic rule generations automatically learned to lower their voice when speaking of the Assads or politics - even abroad. Children were born inside jails, their mothers, tortured, raped, jailed on political charges w/no due process 1/11

1/ Some general points about how asylum and immigration law applies when an appalling dictatorship is ousted in another country. #Syria 🇸🇾

Un ancien collaborateur de Bruno Retailleau au ministère de l'intérieur au magazine Society:"Lors de mon entretien d'embauche, Louis-Marie m'a demandé si je croyais en Dieu,ce que je pensais de la cause homosexuelle" Louis-Marie Le Roy,chef de cabinet de Bruno Retailleau au ministère de l'intérieur

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

Les soupçons d'ingérences dans l'élection roumaine se font sentir. Mais, au-delà de l'ingérence, il y a une question : des influenceurs ont-ils été payés pour faire campagne pour Georgescu en Roumanie ?

I'm sharing this for those of you who will be in Brussels in December! Don't miss this super interesting event on EU external migration policy at the EP!

⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due by 8 January 2025. Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

Enquête Politis. 🔎 Neuf femmes accusent l'acteur Gérard Darmon d’insultes et d’humiliations à caractère sexiste, de propositions à caractère sexuel ou de contacts physiques non consentis. ✒️ @hugoboursier.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3CNZ1z1

The EU Ombudsman has faulted the European Commission over the controversial cash-for-migrant deal with Tunisia. The commission claimed not to have any documents in its possession — posing questions on how all sides could have organised such a deal with no paper trail. https://euobserver.com/migrati…

Very excited that my first PhD article on the promotion of climate objectives at trade committees is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A reminder that the far right comes in many forms and most stereotypes are just that, stereotypes, describing just some of the larger group in terms of some of their characteristics.

🚨 The 4th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! This issue covers changes to deportation law and the effects of Frontex-led reintegration policies in The Gambia and Nigeria. It also makes over 15 documents from EU institutions public: buff.ly/4fH1Mkm

Ce qu’il se passe en #Roumanie est à regarder de près. C’est sans précédent et un avertissement pour l’Europe Comment est-ce possible qu'un candidat quasi absent des sondages, 0 parti, 0 campagne, 0 dépense selon lui, a-t-il pu être 1er et obtenir 2,1 millions de votes ? Elements de réponse ⤵️

Yesterday, I finally made it to the Venice Art Biennale. This can only be a (late) appreciation post since it's now closed, but I'm so so grateful that a Biennale with a theme like "Foreigners everywhere" was organized in today's Italy.

My latest analysis for EUobserver. With ICC arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu and ex-minister Gallant over alleged war crimes, the EU faces a key dilemma: upholding international law or preserving deep political and economic ties with Israel. Quo vadis Europa? euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Odysseus Network Special Collection on EU Asylum and Migration Legislation after the Pact. eumigrationlawblog.eu/special-coll...