Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Two years after the full-scale Russian invasion, many Ukrainians find themselves scattered throughout the EU, attempting to survive. But many of those who managed to escape the war fell into a different kind of trap: labor exploitation by temporary employment agencies.
After 24 February 2022, (…)
Maria Cheresheva – a Bulgarian freelance journalist who has documented abuses along the Balkan migration route to Western Europe via Bulgaria – spoke to Cross-border Talks about her findings. She has discovered black sites where migrants are held illegally. She is aware of a massive trend of (…)
On 28 February 2024, the first court hearing in the trial of woman human rights defender Ieva Raubiško is scheduled to take place at the Rezekne court in Latvia. The woman human rights defender has been charged with “organising intentional illegal crossing of the state border for a group of (…)
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to some commentators’ surprise Poland became Kyiv’s closest ally in Europe. But as parliamentary elections loomed closer, support began to waver. This is mostly because of the efforts of those who labeled the conflict ‘not our war’.
Very little could break (…)
The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and his Home Secretary, James Cleverly, are trying to save the “Rwanda Plan” announced by Boris Johnson in April 2022.
This was a deterrent measure against would-be Channel crossers in makeshift boats: those intercepted would be deported to Rwanda. (…)
From November 27, 2023 to December 10, Filma, Ukrainian feminist film festival, offers films on its site accessible throughout Ukraine and around the world.”We call ourselves Filma because cinema can be a co-creative process, with equal opportunities for all participants, instead of the strict (…)
Since the Maastricht treaty in 1992, the European Union (EU) has accumulated regulations, conventions, agreements, directives, but also pacts. These are information, data and control systems concerning migrants from third party countries. The novelty of the new century is the increase and (…)
Garrett Mullan discusses an Anti-Ukrainian statement published by Dublin Communities Against Racism.
Irish Left With Ukraine activists were shocked to see anti-Ukrainian content in a post published online by Dublin Communities Against Racism (DCAR). The post by DCAR was meant to be a left (…)
On 15 October, Poland will see an unprecedented electoral event. Not only will there be a general election, there will also be multiple concurrent – and highly controversial – referendums.
Of the four referendum questions, two focus on immigration, a favourite hobby horse of the ruling Law (…)
On Saturday, June 10, the fishing boat Adriana, an old 30 metre vessel, set off from Tobruk in Libya loaded with 750 migrants. Bound for Italy, it sank in the early hours of Wednesday, June 14 fifty miles southwest of Pylos in the Peloponnese. Only 104 men survived, and 82 bodies were recovered (…)
The first quarter of 2023 was the deadliest for migrants crossing the Mediterranean since 2017.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Wednesday 12 April that at least 441 people died while trying to reach Europe; the toll was further increased at the beginning of (…)
Maria Markina, a singer and volunteer from Hamburg, talks about her experience of helping Ukrainian refugees, her volunteer organization, and the relations between volunteers from Russia and Ukraine
Maria, first of all, tell us a little bit about yourself. Are you still active in opera? How (…)
We have a problem, and a serious one at that. The belief persists in the public sphere that Poles are full of goodwill towards Ukrainians. We have managed to give ourselves medals for this, and we accept thanks from Ukraine. The problem is that this goodwill no longer exists.
It was certainly (…)
Pushing ‘irregular’ migrants back from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia won’t stop them coming
For over a year now, there has been a humanitarian crisis along borders between the European Union and Belarus. Poland is refusing to give refuge to asylum seekers who enter it from Belarus, and the (…)
Finland, Poland and the Baltic states are stopping Russians from leaving Russia. It would be a tragedy if Sweden did the same, says David Crouch.
An iron curtain is descending across Europe. But in contrast to the beginning of the Cold War, the curtain is being drawn down by EU countries – (…)
One of Warsaw’s major railway stations, working as an information point for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, was full of people. It was early May, and the crowds had shrunk as the number of those crossing the Polish-Ukrainian border had decreased. Yet, there was a dire need for volunteers (…)
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By and large, Ukrainians have been granted access to assistance, and extended legal statuses allowing them to enter (…)
Some EU countries have rigid human trafficking laws that don’t recognize other forms of labor exploitation, such as the case of these migrant truck drivers, leaving them unprotected and vulnerable
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – Randy remembers feeling paralyzed by dread. He could not shake off (…)
‘The army is much meaner and more focused on disturbing our work.’
More than 3.5 million of the 6.5 million people who have fled Russia’s invasion have entered the EU at the Poland-Ukraine border, mainly to open arms and a hot meal. This situation stands in stark contrast to the reception for (…)
According to the European Agency for Fundamental Rights data, Roma are the most persecuted minority in Europe. During the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, the international organization Minority Rights Group (MRG), operating in Ukraine, alarmed that human rights violations against Roma (…)
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