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France dismantles Roma camps

By Anna Sonny The controversial dismantling of Roma settlement camps in France has sparked fresh outrage from the EU. Over the past week, French police have evicted hundreds of Roma people residing in makeshift camps near Lille, Lyon and Paris. Around 240 Eastern European Roma were flown back to Bucharest voluntarily, after being given over… [Read More]


Och aye the EU!

By Lucy Hatton Following the announcement that a referendum on Scottish independence is to take place in autumn 2014, debate has raged about what implications this will have for Scotland’s membership of the European Union. Whilst Scottish nationalists, who have called for the referendum, are incredibly optimistic about the future position of Scotland within the… [Read More]


Greece’s Border (De)fence

By Lucy Hatton On Monday, the Greek Government announced its remarkable plans to construct a fence along its border with Turkey in order to curb illegal immigration into the EU, a move the European Commission has denounced as ‘pointless’.


EU’ve Got Mail

Buried amidst the media flurry sparked the recent riots, a seemingly inconsequential nugget of news has slipped largely undetected beneath the public radar.


Border-Free Market

Having trawled through 70,000 pages of police intelligence, Europol has published a report examining serious organised crime within the EU. Although the paper is ostensibly a study of European law enforcement rather than an advisory document, its findings will inevitably have significant ramifications for member states’ immigration strategies, which policy makers would be unwise to… [Read More]


The Greek Wall of Immigration Control

In an attempt to curb its growing illegal immigration crisis, Greece has revealed plans to erect a 128 mile wall along its Turkish border. The Ministry of Public Order has stated that Greece “has reached its limits in taking in illegal immigrants”, with over 100,000 entering the country in 2010.


The wrath of Commissioner Reding

The EU may have spent the last month dithering nervously over the legality of France’s Roma expulsions, but the emergence of a French circulaire has shocked the EU into decisive action, writes Natalie Hamill. In a press briefing yesterday (14th September) the EU Justice Commissioner unleashed a scathing attack on France’s expulsion of its Roma… [Read More]


The price of friendship

Monday marked the two year anniversary of the signing of the ‘Friendship Treaty’ on immigration between Italy and Libya, writes Natalie Hamill. Visiting Italy for the fourth time this year, Colonel Gaddafi punctuated his visit with several provocative claims, not least that the EU should pay Libya €5 billion a year to stop migration flows… [Read More]


Borderline policy

France’s decision to expel its Roma minority has reignited debate on who should decide citizens’ right to free movement:  ‘Should it be the host state or the EU?’ asks Natalie Hamill.


Examining the European Investigation Order

The concept of police forces from other EU member states being able to request personal information about citizens suspected of having committed a crime makes many people feel uncomfortable, writes Natalie Hamill. But apparently not Home Secretary Theresa May, who has decided that the UK should opt-in to such a proposal, known as the European… [Read More]


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