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.
Opinion
A plea to the EU from inside Tehran's Evin jail
As a result of my peaceful civil activism, I have been arrested 13 times, undergone five trials, and been sentenced to 34 years of imprisonment and 154 lashes in total. I am currently in Evrin prison, without the slightest regret.
Illegal pushbacks happening daily in Croatia, says NGO
More than 1,600 testimonies of alleged illegal pushbacks of migrants and refugees throughout the EU has been published, collated by the Border Violence Monitoring Network and the Left party — adding to the mounting evidence of abuse.
News in Brief
- 'Pro-Kremlin group' in EU Parliament cyberattack
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- Germany blocks sale of chip factory to Chinese subsidiary
- Strikes and protests over cost-of-living grip Greece, Belgium
- Liberal MEPs want Musk quizzed in parliament
- Bulgarian policeman shot dead at Turkish border
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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