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Migration control: EU agency spends € 1.5 billion on virtual borders
The launch of the new Entry/Exit System is delayed to September 2023, the Commission says the contracted companies are to blame. Between 2014 and 2020 alone, Frontex and eu-LISA agencies spent a total of €1.9 billion on contracts for border… Further reading
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Strategic Compass: EU to get new secret service centre
The two EU secret service situation centres could soon be merged into a single institution. Their surveillance capacities are currently being expanded. Operational competences are also under discussion. The European Commission wants to take the cooperation of intelligence services within… Further reading
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Germany and Great Britain: Confiscation of asylum seekers’ mobile phones can be illegal
In many cases, European authorities confiscate the phones of refugees after they have crossed the border in order to check their identity or to identify those helping them to flee. The people concerned do not always get their devices back.… Further reading
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Relaunch of the EU-US Migration Platform
Twice a year the USA and the EU want to meet to talk about migration and asylum policies At their most recent meeting in Washington last December, the justice and interior ministers of the EU and the USA revived their… Further reading
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German activists receive asylum in Venezuela
After Interpol already withdrew an arrest request, two leftists now finally escape persecution by the German justice system The Venezuelan refugee commission has granted the two German-born Peter Krauth and Thomas Walter a claim for protection from political persecution. They… Further reading
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Facial recognition and police records: European biometric systems to be expanded
A new Prüm system will make it possible to query facial images across Europe in the future, and a central biometric EU repository will also be connected to it For 14 years, the member states of the European Union have… Further reading