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Authorities in Tunis rounded up migrants and dumped them in the desert, following an EU cash-for-migrant deal with Tunisia. (Photo: European Union, 2023)

Plans to 'offshore' EU asylum destined to fail, warn civil society

Dozens of civil rights groups are warning against 'offshoring' migration and asylum to countries outside Europe.

In a letter published on Tuesday (9 July), they say the right to territorial asylum in Europe needs to be safeguarded.

But they also warn that ideas mimicking schemes like the...

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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.

Authorities in Tunis rounded up migrants and dumped them in the desert, following an EU cash-for-migrant deal with Tunisia. (Photo: European Union, 2023)

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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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