ECHOES #13 – HOLD TIGHT!

July 2024

Summertime 2024: the frequency of civil fleet rescue cooperations in the Central Mediterranean is increasing again to almost a daily level. A Tunisian Search and Rescue Region is established to extend the EU push-back regime. After the Tories were voted out of office, the UK-Rwanda agreement is finally dead. The Meloni government counts on the Albania deal to deter people on the move from reaching Italian coasts. Repeatedly the administrative seizure of rescue ships by the Piantedosi decree is stopped by court decisions. Louise Michel is detained for another 20 days in Lampedusa. NGOs announce to get operative with two more rescue ships within next months… Still and again: contested spaces. Still and again: the movements of migration and the struggles for safe passages will continue!

 

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