Frontex chief looks beyond EU borders
EU border control agency Frontex is looking to buy drones and satellite images to monitor migrant behaviour beyond the Union's borders.
News in Brief
- Poland, Czech Republic offer visa to Belarus 'asylum' athlete
- 200,000 protest against French Covid-19 health pass
- Greece issued nearly 10,000 migrant detention orders
- Officials worried at infection-surge on Greek holiday islands
- EU calls on online platforms to tackle vaccine hesitancy
- Russia accused of falling short on Sputnik V deliveries
- France: UK quarantine rules 'discriminatory'
- Italy's government reaches deal on judicial reform
Opinion
Can Greece work with Biden to solve the West Balkans impasse?
Greece has always been Europe's outlier. It faces an implacably hostile neighbour in Turkey under its assertive authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Until Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, Greece had no European Union member state as a neighbour.
Opinion
Brexit: what is the 'Lugano Convention' and does it matter?
After Brexit, the UK ceased to be a member of the Lugano Convention, an international treaty which governs cross-border civil and commercial legal disputes. In May, the European Commission published an opinion calling for the UK's re-application to be rejected.
Fortress Europe
EUobserver's Nikolaj Nielsen visited the Greek-Turkish border in November to see what 'Fortress Europe' means in practice for refugees and people smugglers trying to get into the Union.
EUobserver investigative reports
EUobserver's 'Fortress Europe' series looks at refugee and immigration networks operating on the edge of Europe, focusing on the 12.5-km Greek 'wall' completed late last year.
About Nikolaj Nielsen
Nikolaj Nielsen is a Danish-American journalist working for EUobserver in Brussels. He won a King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.
'I have heard about EU austerity, but still I would like to go'
Poor labour conditions, racism and squalid housing is making African migrants in Istanbul dream of the EU despite its crisis.
Istanbul: smuggler capital for EU-bound migrants
Smuggler groups - kacakci - who get people from Turkey into the EU make more money each time the Union takes steps to protect the border.
Fortress Europe: a Greek wall close up
A 12.5km fence rolled with barbwire along the Greek Turkish border is part of a larger initiative to secure Europe from migrants seeking a better life.
Turkish limbo pushing Afghan refugees to EU
Afghan refugees trapped in legal limbo in Turkey are pursuing new Balkan routes to get into the EU.
Amnesty: migrant abuse in Greece is 'humanitarian crisis'
The poor treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in Greece is a humanitarian disaster, says a report released on Wednesday by Amnesty International.
Land border sealed, Greek police chief says
A chief of police in north-eastern Greece says irregular migrants no longer cross into the country from Turkey. Land mines from World War II are among the deterrents.
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