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• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Suddenly, it’s OK to be German and to talk about race

  18 September 2019, by SANYAL Mithu

  For years if a German wanted to discuss racism, people looked at you as if you were a Nazi, but now there’s a new openness

  When I was growing up there was no racism in Germany. In the 1980s every child learned at school that race was a construct that fascists had used to justify segregating and killing people. So if race didn’t exist, it naturally followed that racism didn’t exist either. If you wanted to talk about it people looked at you as if you were the Nazi.

  All this is changing. It is (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Once migrants on Mediterranean were saved by naval patrols. Now they have to watch as drones fly over

  4 August 2019, by FOTIADIS Apostolis, HOWDEN Daniel, LOEWENSTEIN Antony

  Experts condemn move to aerial surveillance as an abrogation of ‘responsibility to save lives’
  Amid the panicked shouting from the water and the smell of petrol from the sinking dinghy, the noise of an approaching engine briefly raises hope. Dozens of people fighting for their lives in the (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  The underage migrants who changed Spain’s repatriation policy

  29 July 2019, by MARTÍN María, QUINTÁNS Jessica Mouzo, URRA Susana

  A surge in complaints has led to more guarantees for the minors, but there is renewed political support for sending them back
  Bilal was at school, having breakfast with his friends right before the start of morning classes, when four plainclothes police officers showed up and took him away in (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Italy: Celebrity Powered Funding Campaign Raises €500,000 for Arrested Sea Watch Captain

  1 July 2019, by Deutsche Welle

  The funding campaign for detained sea captain Carola Rackete, who rescued 53 migrants and docked forcefully in Italy.
  A crowdfunding effort for detained sea captain Carola Rackete – backed by two of Germany’s top television celebrities – raised €500,000 ($569,000) within hours of its launch. (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Migrant rescue ship defies Salvini’s ban to enter Italian port

  26 June 2019, by TONDO Lorenzo

  Sea-Watch captain plans disembarking at Lampedusa island after two-week standoff
  After a two-week stand-off with Italian authorities a ship carrying 42 migrants has reached the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in defiance of a ban by the country’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini. (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Captain of migrant rescue ship says Italy ’criminalising solidarity’

  15 June 2019, by BOFFEY Daniel, TONDO Lorenzo

  Pia Klemp, one of the Iuventa 10, says it is ‘ridiculous’ that she could face jail
  A captain of a search-and-rescue ship potentially facing up to 20 years in jail in connection with her role in saving 6,000 people from drowning in the Mediterranean has accused the EU of letting people die and (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  ICC submission calls for prosecution of EU over migrant deaths

  3 June 2019, by BOWCOTT Owen

  Member states should face punitive action over deaths in Mediterranean, say lawyers
  The EU and member states should be prosecuted for the deaths of thousands of migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean fleeing Libya, according to a detailed legal submission to the international criminal court (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Morocco Does EU Dirty Work to Cut Migration Into Spain

  29 May 2019, by GUGGENHEIM B. Lana

  Migration into Europe is far down from its height in 2015, but many migrants still risk everything to cross into Spain via Morocco, by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. With EU aid, Morocco has made strides in stemming the flow.
  Spain’s elections might be over, but the topic of migration (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Italy plans to fine NGO boats up to €5,500 per rescued migrant

  13 May 2019, by TONDO Lorenzo

  Salvini’s planned decree ‘a declaration of war against NGOs saving lives at sea’, aid groups say
  Italy’s government is planning to issue a decree that would mean NGO rescue boats would be fined up to €5,500 (£4,760) for each migrant they disembark on to Italian soil.
  Aid groups said the planned (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Born in Spain but unable to vote: The red tape faced by children of immigrants

  25 April 2019, by El País (Spain/Espagne), YE Susana

  Over 500,000 people cannot vote at the upcoming general election even though they have lived in the country all their lives.
  Safia El Aaddam was born in the northeastern Spanish city of Tarragona. Although the 23-year-old is politically active, she cannot vote in the general election on April (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Nearly half of migrants who arrive in Spain via Africa report violence on the journey

  22 April 2019, by Asia London Palomba, El País (Spain/Espagne), MARTÍN María

  According to a study by the International Organization for Migration, Morocco is the country where immigrants suffer the most.
  The dangers of the migration route to Spain are not limited to the danger of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar or the western Mediterranean in unstable boats. The (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  ’A whole generation has gone’: Ukrainians seek a better life in Poland

  18 April 2019, by OLSZANKA Paulina, WALKER Shaun

  As Ukraine waits for the first steps of its new president, millions of its citizens have moved across the border.
  When the small business run by Kristina Melnytska’s father began to struggle in 2014 he did what hundreds of thousands of other Ukrainians were doing and moved his family to Poland. (...)

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  Rescue ship says Spain is blocking its bid to aid refugees in Greece

  16 April 2019, by MARTÍN María

  A vessel operated by an NGO is trying to deliver humanitarian relief to Lesbos, but Spanish authorities say it needs a new permit despite having one from Portugal.
  A Basque fishing vessel converted into a migrant rescue boat called the Aita Mariis having problems going to the Greek island of (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Antisemitic Jewish caricatures paraded through UNESCO listed annual Belgian carnival

  4 March 2019, by The Brussels Times

  Spectators visiting the famous Aalst carnival in Belgium were shocked to find the depiction of orthodox Jews with unflattering expressions standing amongst sacks of money, paraded through the town.
  The antisemitic float was paraded through the annual carnival parade in Aalst. The orthodox Jews (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  With no EU policy forthcoming, Spain gets tougher on immigration

  28 January 2019, by URRA Susana

  “This is not a retreat. We are under enormous migratory pressure,” says an Interior Ministry source
  In June of last year, a newly formed government in Spain sought to give the world a lesson by welcoming the Aquarius, a humanitarian rescue ship with 629 migrants aboard that had been refused (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Asylum seekers: ‘Social Death’ in Denmark

  20 January 2019, by MIRZOEFF Nicholas

  The European country is isolating and excluding asylum seekers until they disappear from society completely.
  hink of Denmark and you probably conjure up a mix of mid-century design, hygge, and people riding bikes. But as viewers of the noir TV series The Bridge know, it’s also a country marred (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Europe: ’Dark day’: migrant rescue ship Aquarius ends operations

  7 December 2018, by Reuters

  Médecins Sans Frontières says ‘smear campaign’ by European governments hampered work in Mediterranean
  Search and rescue ship Aquarius, which has saved tens of thousands of migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean, has ended its operations, said Médecins Sans Frontières, the charity that runs the (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Vulnerable migrants made homeless after Italy passes ’Salvini decree’

  7 December 2018, by GIUFFRIDA Angela , TONDO Lorenzo

  Decree named after leader of far-right party abolishes humanitarian protection for those not eligible for refugee status
  Dozens of migrants, including victims of sex trafficking and a child with mental health problems, have been removed from so-called “welcome centres” in Italy as the populist (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  There is no such thing as a ‘left’ case for borders

  3 December 2018, by DE NORONHA Luke

  Arguments for borders rely on historically illiterate and morally inexcusable reasoning that has no right to call itself ’leftwing’, writes Luke de Noronha
  Angela Nagle recently whipped up controversy with her piece The Left Case Against Open Borders. She argues that liberal migration regimes (...)

• Migrants, refugees, racism (Europe)

  Berlin protests against far-right politics...

  13 October 2018, by Ben Knight, Common Dreams, DPA

  Berlin protests against far-right politics draw thousands
  October 13,2018 by Ben Knight
  Over 200,000 people have taken to the streets of Berlin to face down the rise of far-right populism in Germany and Europe. The protesters were demanding more solidarity with marginalized groups.
  Berlin (...)