Greece: EU's bellwether for migration restrictions? Suspended access to asylum, mass detention, sweeping deportations - @oliviasundberg.bsky.social tells @aljazeera.com “Greece has become a testing ground for many EU measures, especially on the Greek islands." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

@amnesty.org joins over 200 organisations in calling for rejection of the @ec.europa.eu’s ‘Return Regulation’. The new proposal on deportations would vastly expand detention, strip away rights, and trap more people in legal limbo and dangerous conditions.

Shameful vote in the #Greek Parliament today on a proposal to suspend asylum applications for three months for people arriving by boat from North Africa. Equally shameful is the @ec.europa.eu's apparent endorsement, stating that Greece is in "an exceptional situation". Let's be clear...

"The EU’s migration cooperation with Libya is morally bankrupt and amounts to complicity in horrific human rights violations," says @evegeddie.bsky.social Today @magnusbrunner.bsky.social is in Libya with ministers to discuss migration cooperation 🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-liby...

NEW: @ec.europa.eu ‘safe third country’ proposals cynical attempt to downgrade rights & offload responsibilities. "The EU should invest in its own asylum systems & let people seeking asylum start rebuilding their lives," says @oliviasundberg.bsky.social Read👇

While @ec.europa.eu defends declaring Tunisia a safe country to return Tunisians to, @amnesty.org’s @oliviasundberg.bsky.social warns that the assessment “absolutely downplays the human rights backsliding that we've seen in the last few years”. Via @euobserver.com 👇

Benham Satah was detained in Manus for seven years by the Australian government. He shared with @politico.eu a harrowing account of what offshore detention means in practice. As European states make similar plans, they should read his testimony and think twice. www.politico.eu/article/offs...

OPINION: Kurdish Iranian refugee Benham Satah spent a harrowing seven years detained by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea. It’s a cautionary tale for European nations that have proposed establishing refugee “return hubs” in third-party countries outside their jurisdiction.

Out today in @politico.eu: A harrowing account of what offshore detention means in practice, from someone who lived it. Benham Satah spent seven years detained by the Australian government in Manus, where he witnessed violence, death, trauma, neglect and abuse. www.politico.eu/article/offs...

Italy-Albania: Italian government’s plans to forcibly transfer people detained in immigration centres in Italy to Albania must be stopped. These plans are nothing more than a desperate attempt to revive the expensive and unlawful Italy-Albania protocol 🧵

The @ec.europa.eu published its proposal on Return Regulation Overall, the Return regulation proposal severely limits procedural safeguards and restricts migrants' rights to appeal against the return decision and detention.

Today's EU proposals on return are a "new low", says @amnestyeu.bsky.social. The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts. Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence. bit.ly/3DyuTbB

Details on the new Common European System for Returns up now: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Today, @ec.europa.eu will announce new return proposals – paving the way for ‘return hubs’ or deportation centres outside the EU & widescale detention in Europe. Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵

What do we know about @ec.europa.eu return proposals tomorrow? Whether or not return hubs are explicitly named in the law, the proposals will be about stripping away peoples' rights & dignity. A new low for the EU. @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social via @euobserver.com euobserver.com/migration/ar...

New @ec.europa.eu proposals on #returns are expected tomorrow, but what will this entail? With 'return hubs' expected to feature (whether implied or explicit), it's useful to look at other examples of this "futile, expensive, cruel and illegal" strategy elsewhere: euobserver.com/migration/ar...

For too long, the EU's anti-smuggling laws have enabled the unjust prosecution of refugees, migrants & human rights defenders. @ec.europa.eu proposals to reform Facilitators Package must align with intl' law & stop criminalizing solidarity. Our recommendations👇 www.amnesty.eu/news/amnesty...

We’ve made a series of suggestions to @ec.europa.eu to help it monitor EU funds granted to Member States for border management and ensure their use does not result in fundamental rights violations. More info here: www.ombudsman.europa.eu/news-documen...

A powerful, beautiful testimony from a week on a @msfsea.bsky.social boat that saves lives in the Mediterranean: hrw.org/feature/2025... And a reminder of how abhorrent the EU's policies of "deterrence by drowning" (or torture) are. Sign our #WithHumanity petition: hrw.org/WithHumanity

Today, the European Court of Human Rights will hear three cases against Latvia, Lithuania and Poland concerning alleged unlawful pushbacks. It's the first time the Court will rule on human rights implications of what the EU and its member states are calling ‘instrumentalized’ migration 🧵

The Greek Ombudsman published a damning report into the actions of the Greek coastguard during the shipwreck in Pylos. @amnesty.org welcomes these crucial findings. Greece must take them into account in their investigations into the incident & finally open disciplinary investigations🧵

This @theguardian.com article has been making the rounds. Yes, the evidence of rights abuses has been clear, but is there any actual indication of a change in the EU's approach to funding for Tunisia, or is this just parroting the Commission line? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A dark but deeply necessary account by @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social of the realities at Lithuania's border with Belarus, ahead of important cases to be heard at the European Court of Human Rights in February: euobserver.com/migration/ar...

There is something especially dark, cynical and shameless about today's Commission Communication on the 'weaponisation' of migration. A troubling endorsement of European states' violations of international and EU law, which doubly punishes people in need of safety. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Polish border officials are unlawfully & violently pushing asylum seekers back to #Belarus. Instead, as the next holder of the 🇪🇺 presidency, #Poland should be setting an example, safeguard the right asylum and ensure that people are treated humanely. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

Amnesty International’s new report documents how Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in the course of the military offensive that began on 7 October 2023. This is genocide and it must stop now.

Well. I'm here and happier to be at Bluesky for every day that passes. I'll be writing mostly about European migration and asylum policies, mostly from Brussels, working with Amnesty International but views are my own. Let's go!