Tag: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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These are the new plans for Frontex: more tasks and powers, but oversight remains weak
The EU Commission wants to triple Frontex troops. The agency’s appetite for data is also growing. This year, the Commission intends to propose further changes – some details have already leaked. Operations of the European border agency are hardly comparable…
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Mass deportations from Croatia and Hungary: Organisations complain of human rights violations
More than 130,000 people were deported from Hungary to neighbouring Serbia without an asylum application being registered. Now Croatia is returning refugees on a large scale to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatian police are currently carrying out mass deportations of refugees…
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Equipment and training: Germany supports police build-up in Croatia
The Croatian police are known for their brutality and human rights violations at the country’s external borders, yet the German governments continues to train them. Number plate scanners, thermal imaging cameras and vehicles could be used for pushbacks in violation…
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New Western Balkans hub for Europol and Frontex
Although the EU agencies can now cooperate more closely with selected third countries, there have hardly been any formats for the political and strategic agreement of border police measures outside the Schengen area. Austria has now created facts for South…