By Mediterranea Saving Humans Some communication expert should advise the Italian government to avoid triumphalist announcements about “reduced landings”: as was the case in 2022 then promptly in 2023, every time a minister in the Meloni government publicly claims fewer…
By Alarm Phone The day after the International Day for the Rights of Migrants, the French executive adopted one of its most racist and violent texts against foreigners. This text, despite the ongoing strong mobilization of civil society, is an…
by PRO ASYL The CEAS (Common European Asylum System) reform will foreseeably lead to more suffering, violence and pushbacks at the external borders. The EU does not stop at the imprisonment of children or refugee deals with autocratic states. PRO…
By Hagen Kopp 157.314 sea arrivals to Italy in 2023! An increase of about 50.000 people compared to 2022. According to UNHCR statistics, only in 2014 and 2016 were more landings registered on this central Mediterranean route. And that in…
In Germany, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has presented a draft law which, among other things, could penalize sea rescue with up to 10 years in prison. The paragraph is embedded in further tightening of asylum law. This must…
Three levels of interpretation must be considered in the face of the “surprise move” announced by Italian Prime Minister Meloni together with Albanian Prime Minister Rama November 6th in Rome. They presented a memorandum that envisages, by late Spring 2024,…
Italian government’s dream, migrants’ nightmare, harassment of the Civil fleet At the very moment when the spread of the global state of war with the tragedy in the Middle East distracts public opinion attention from the permanent humanitarian crisis in…
In recent months, Tunisia has come under increasing scrutiny from European countries. Faced with the increase of crossings along the Tunisian route, particularly active between Sfax and Lampedusa, the EU and its member states have stepped up their outsourcing policies…
Press release by MEDITERRANEA Saving Humans published on the 11th of September 2023 In the last few hours, the Italian government’s willingness to hinder and block civil rescue ships has taken another negative leap forward: the authorities have ordered the…
The manufactured crisis and the solidarity response in Lampedusa In the week of the 11th to the 17th of September 2023, more than 11,560 people made it bravely to Lampedusa. Not all who tried succeeded. Some were intercepted by the…
The economic crisis in Tunisia is worsening and racist attacks against Tunisia’s Black population are again escalating. Especially in Sfax, Black people are suffering from racially motivated violence. Systematic collective expulsions to the desert of the Libyan-Tunisian and Algerian-Tunisian border…
Tunisian lessons on Lampedusa and ambivalences of an open situation in the Mediterranean “The goal is for the Mediterranean to be a calmer sea, said the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of signing the memorandum of…
