Tag: United Kingdom
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Frontex now stations ship and surveillance vehicles in English Channel – and still tolerates pushbacks in the Aegean
Frontex is expanding its presence along the French coast as crossings of the English Channel remain high. At the same time, the agency is under renewed scrutiny over an incident near the Greek island of Ikaria in which 27 people…
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New EU action plan: Frontex to deploy ships and aircraft in the English Channel to stop migrants departing for the UK
The European Commission wants Frontex to send much more assets to the Channel for the first time. The action plan also tasks Europol with mapping smuggling networks and taking down their websites. The agencies should lean on the UK as…
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Forced “border partnership”: EU Commission wants to allow U.S. also to query political views and “ethnic origin”
According to the draft framework agreement on a “border partnership” with the Trump administration, US authorities would be permitted to query not only facial images but also names, health data and sexual orientation from police databases in EU member states.…
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German attack on Channel route: Government wants to punish “illegal migration” to Great Britain
Germany intends to further criminalise migration via the English Channel. Cooperation with the neighbouring states is being intensified. This includes removals from the internet. The German government wants to criminalise “human smuggling” across the English Channel to Great Britain –…