European Union and Tunisia agree dirty deal to keep refugees out of Europe
The EU has promised Tunisia’s autocratic ruler financial aid worth €900 million in return for preventing refugees from reaching its borders.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Martin Kreickenbaum
Greek coastguard tried to tow hundreds of migrants to Italy, capsized the vessel
On June 14, a fishing vessel carrying hundreds of refugees, the Adriana, sank off the Greek port city of Pylos. Roughly 600 people, including children, drowned.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Hundreds of refugees missing near the Canary Islands
The European Union is responsible for the mass death: its refugee policy deliberately aims to let people die of thirst or drown in order to prevent others from fleeing to Europe.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Witnesses accuse Greek Coast Guard of responsibility for refugee tragedy in the Mediterranean
According to the witnesses, the Greek coast guard threw a rope to the refugee boat and initially tried to tow it away. When this apparently did not succeed, the Coast Guard boat first made a sharp turn to the right and then to the left, causing the boat to capsize.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
EU interior ministers abandon the Geneva Refugee Convention
At their meeting in Luxembourg last Thursday, EU interior ministers effectively abandoned the right of asylum for refugees.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Mass drowning of refugees off the coast of Tunisia
At least 29 refugees drowned off the Tunisian coast in three boat accidents last week, and another 67 people are missing, according to aid agencies.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
After the refugee tragedy off Crotone, Italy: Brussels and Berlin further restrict sea rescues
The cruel deaths of the 74 refugees cast a harsh spotlight on the murderous policies of the European Union, which deliberately accepts these victims in order to prevent other refugees from reaching Europe.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Violence against refugees at EU external borders increases dramatically
Illegal pushbacks, deprivation of liberty, beatings, sexual assaults are now part of the standard repertoire used by the European Union to repel refugees.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
European Union employs double standards on refugees from Ukraine, discriminates against non-Ukrainians
The discrimination based on skin colour and national origin of refugees from Ukraine shows the hypocrisy of European refugee policy.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Nearly 300 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean in the week before Christmas
The deaths off the Libyan coast, together with another 30 refugees in the Aegean, bring the year’s total to 1,887 people seeking shelter in Europe.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Warsaw and Brussels intensify attacks on refugees at Polish-Belarusian border
The Polish government, with the support of the European Union and NATO, is waging a veritable war against refugees.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Six refugees die at the Polish-Belarusian border as illegal deportations in the EU rise
The plight of refugees stranded in the no man’s land on the border between Poland and Belarus is becoming increasingly dramatic.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Another 43 refugees drowned off the coast of Tunisia as a result of the EU’s fortress Europe policy
The criminal character of the European Union is nowhere more clearly revealed than in its brutal treatment of people seeking refuge.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Forty-three refugees drown off Libya’s coast: victims of the European Union’s refugee policy
Chief responsibility lies with the governments in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Vienna and The Hague, which have blocked all legal avenues to Europe.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
EU policy responsible for the massive death toll in the Mediterranean Sea
More than 1,200 refugees have died trying to reach Europe this year, most of them drowned in the central Mediterranean.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
The Moria catastrophe and the European Union’s war on refugees
The inhumane treatment of the desperate people on Lesbos is the product of deliberate policies being pursued by the European Union and its member states.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
EU refuses to accept hundreds of refugees rescued in the Mediterranean
More than 400 refugees are waiting in the central Mediterranean Sea off Sicily to be assigned to a safe haven.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Germany seeks to tighten European asylum law
The core elements are the internment of refugees at the EU’s external borders and the implementation of fast-track asylum procedures.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
Coronavirus infections surging in German refugee shelters
The forced placement of refugees in large communal accommodation facilities exposes many people whose health is weakened to a deadly risk.
•Martin Kreickenbaum
German armed forces deploy 300 soldiers to EU mission “Irini” in Mediterranean
The mission’s mandate includes stopping and searching ships suspected of transporting weapons to Libya.
•Martin Kreickenbaum