Help us resettle!

Refugees are the most vulnerable population in the world. Most of them want to go back home. Others may stay in transit countries with which they sometimes have cultural or linguistic similarities. But 200.000 refugees per year can not go … Continue reading

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Recent adoption of an illegal migrant’s bill in Israel

An illegal migrant’s bill was approved in the Knesset Plenum on the 9th of January. This law was originally meant to deal with terrorists but will now also be applied to asylum seekers. It allows authorities to arrest and hold illegal … Continue reading

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Where the hell is the European Union?

This week, violence erupted between police, residents and hundreds of Tunisian migrants, after a protest against conditions at an overcrowded detention centre in the tiny island of Lampedusa.

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Enough distractions — EU must focus on the real refugee crisis

This time I’m posting a slightly different contribution — an appeal I have written with my friend and colleague Ana Gomes, a socialist MEP from my country Portugal. It regards the events on the Mediterranean and tries to bring some … Continue reading

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A dangerous waiting game

Less than a month ago, more than a hundred refugees from places like Eritrea or Somalia died at sea after a shipwreck, while trying to leave Libya for Europe (not ”Lampedusa”; Europe). Nothing means despair like a refugee that has … Continue reading

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Gaddafi was the European Union’s drug dealer

Of all the things you can accuse Gaddafi of I have never heard someone say that he was a drug dealer. And yet maybe the best way to understand this strange man is by exploring the metaphor of the action … Continue reading

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