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The Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos burned down September 2020 (Photo: UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis)

French push for legal limbos on EU borders

The EU French presidency is pressing for the creation of legal limbos near its borders where existing human rights standards may be harder to enforce, as part of an ongoing crackdown on irregular migration.

Such a step has long alarmed human rights campaigners, who warn it could result in the systematic detention of vulnerable migrants at EU borders and the creation of ghetto-like encampments.

Even so, the French moved ahead this week with proposals to classify asylum-seekers arri...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

The Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos burned down September 2020 (Photo: UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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