A socialist MEP might have to relinquish her role as lead negotiator on a migration dossier following right-wing pressure over proposals to shield humanitarians from criminal prosecution.

Greece marches on with its proposed legislative warfare on NGOs & CSOs who support Refugees & Migrants.

The 24 humanitarian aid workers who assisted with sea rescue of incoming #Refugees in #Greece during 2015-2018yrs, were acquitted & found innocent, after a seven year legal ordeal whereby the 🇬🇷state had criminalized their actions! VICTORY FOR #SOLIDARITY & HUMANITY www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikai...

Law professor sues Germany for 'illegal' border controls

Now on Substack: Political scientist Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social identifies five distinct forms of genocide denial in German war discourse – showing how Germany explains Israel’s genocide in Gaza away, one concession at a time. open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

🇬🇷 #Refugees camps became testing grounds for neoliberal policies of control, surveillance, impoverishment & labor exploitation. "The humanitarian discourse of “hospitality” functions as an ideological cover for a regime that produces expendable lives." www.efsyn.gr/stiles/apops...

The planned prison superstructure project on #Lesvos 🇬🇷, Vastria funded by the Mechanism of the European Asylum, #Migration & Integration Fund, has been delayed for 3 years based on legal technical impasses, social & environmental objections. A Policy failure! www.stonisi.gr/post/103099/...

Frontex before the EU courts Analysis of the two recent big losses in court for the EU border control agency, by Antje Kunst - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/fron...

🟢 Breaking: Historic win against Frontex! The @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social has upheld our appeal in Hamoudi v Frontex, and overturned the order under appeal!

⚖️ Judgment in Case C-136/24 P Hamoudi v Frontex: How can migrants obtain effective judicial protection in cases involving alleged summary returns? 🎥 💬 Judge Bernardus Smulders explains with subtitles available in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...

CJEU, border controls 🚨 MASSIVE defeat for Frontex in two judgments - the agency is liable if it assists Member States to do pushbacks etc in breach of human rights; rules of evidence are simplified for migrants curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

A group of 19 EU countries is pushing the European Commission to take a tougher line on migration beyond the bloc’s borders, arguing that last week’s EU deal on asylum and returns has changed the political weather in Brussels.

Still, member states proudly tout the decline in irregular crossings this year, ignoring the countless people trapped in transit countries abandoned by European border policies to die or to endure unbearable suffering.

Hunger strike by Sudanese in the 🇬🇷 #Refugeesgr structures against the legal prosecution & imprisonment of their compatriots. 300+ people being held in 🇬🇷 prison on trumped up trafficking charges, denying them the right to apply for #asylum. www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikai...

@allisonrwest.bsky.social explains: “When Italian or other European authorities order NGO ships to coordinate with Libyan units, they are effectively asking them to take part in an unlawful system. Therefore, refusal is not defiance but compliance with international law.”

After the Greek Coast Guard found 17 bodies off Crete, a body of a 12-year-old child was found after he was struck by a boat propeller while reaching the Greek island of Samos. #SafeRoutesNow #PeopleNotMigrants

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘂𝘂𝗺𝘀 The EU interior ministers have agreed on asylum restrictions. The result: a system based on detention, deportation, externalization, and punishment – a frontal attack on fundamental rights, especially those of racialized non-EU citizens.

This year’s #HumanRightsDay (10 December), Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) presents an updated overview of the conditions prevailing in #refugee #camps across mainland #Greece. 👉 rsaegean.org/en/human-rig... #HRD2025 (1/9)

That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election! *Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose

We must preserve Europe's #HumanRights system; be evidence-based, rejecting false claims & dangerous associations of migration w. criminality. Uphold the law & the universality of rights. Respect for everyone's rights secures a safe state. It is not a zero-sum game. #ECHR www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

As European leaders meet to discuss the European Convention on Human Rights, here's a reminder that efforts to weaken the Convention and Court to serve the interests of states on migration will undermine the rights of everyone in the Council of Europe region www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

"Watched, Tracked, and Targeted Life in #Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime." A must read. ⬇️ nymag.com/intelligence...

#Grigoropoulos is a memory the state wants suppressed, for it resurrects and brings a glaring truth of how oppressive economic austerity & corruption work to erase the hope of a future for youth in #Greece #antireport

Another tragedy took place in sea area off Crete, an inflatable boat carrying #Refugees sunk, 18 people dead with only 2 survivors. This area is patroled & under surveillance by 🇬🇷 & 🇪🇺 so why is rescue always to late? www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koino...

European Union: UN experts alarmed by risk of humanitarian assistance being criminalized in the EU revised proposal of Facilitation Directive. The proposed legislation risks criminalising those who are assisting and protecting #Refugees, #asylumseekers #migrants www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The assumption that we live in a time of multiple migration crises has had a significant impact on how international migration is understood and addressed. That's why having clear definitions is so important. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

We have a new mapping study out w/C. Warin geared for practice & commissioned by @coe.int Division on Migration and Refugees on identifying & responding to vulnerability in an asylum and migration context. Free access! www.coe.int/en/web/migra... @nsitaropoulos.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social

I have now received a reply to this communication. I thank the gov for their engagement, but am concerned that, in their response, they continue to conflate the work of human rights organisations with people smuggling. The State has a responsibility to reverse this false narrative, not perpetuate it

France agrees to intercept migrants' small boats in the Channel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One can really sense the excitement that the Frontex press team must have felt when realising that they could now use a refugee story to promote its work of pushing back refugees.

The death of children at EU #borders, is so routine & normalized that it simply needs to be recorded in a SIR report, so that there is a record. Collecting data as a signal that it is enforcing EU #fundamentalrights, while there is never any accountability & border violence & deaths 📈 #migration

Now public: I wrote to the Government of #Greece concerning public statements by Govt officials against human rights organisations working in the field of migration as well as recent restrictions on the right to seek asylum. Regrettably, the Government did not reply. srdefenders.org/greece-publi...

V useful analysis of some of the significant human rights problems raised by Mahmood’s announcement

Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures Me, for @zeteo.com

17 Νοεμβρη 1973 "είχαμε ανεβεί πολύ ψηλά, δεν μπορούσαμε πια νά χαμηλώσουμε"... Γ.Ριτσος

Fear of random deportations of "foreigners", revoked student Visas, racist attacks, curtailment of free speech, and the political gag orders on universities= 📉 enrollement.

Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/ www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...

Following the expiry of the rule of #asylum suspension in #Greece, Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) documents the conditions in #detention centres, procedural gaps, and the arbitrary implementation of the measure. 👉 rsaegean.org/en/suspensio... (1/9)

Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social

#Greece's Ombudsman on the 2023 deadly #PylosShipwreck: "while criminal charges for several felonies have been brought against the 🇬🇷Coast Guard officers, the competent Ministry insists on abstaining from any disciplinary action, disregarding what the law dictates” #RefugeesGr 1/

🙅‍♀️ No papers, no protection? Join us as we launch our new briefing and discuss justice for undocumented survivors of gender-based violence with advocates and frontline experts. 🗓️ 24 Nov ⏰ 1-2 pm CET ✍️ Register on crm.picum.org/civicrm/even...

1/ NEW GUIDE: We’ve just published a new Data Protection Handbook on Asylum and Migration in Europe. ⚠️ Who it is for: This handbook is for anyone who works in immigration, in asylum, or who advocates for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.

EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.

Tension, fire & arrests at Serres, Greece #migrant facility. 29 people were arrested for causing the incidents (for attempting to escape and disobedience). What is not said is that these people are demonstrating against administrative detention & inhuman conditiins www.kathimerini.gr/society/5639...

"Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic will challenge EU over #migration quotas. Hardliners say they will not take in more migrants nor pay compensation for refusal." www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Thinking of the many other lawfare cases that 🇬🇷 initiated to criminalize NGO's or individuals who supported #Migrants #Refugees. All were acquitted! What remained of this lawfare was successful anti-immigration propoganda & the tough policies of punishing Refugees by eleminating available services.