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Quelle: WTM

The fundamental crisis of the European border regime continues, and we as the Alarm Phone are able to witness first-hand how thousands succeed to overcome Europe’s borders day after day, despite their securitisation and fortification. As a reaction to these unprecedented movements, the EU seeks to militarise its borders even further and announced on the 28th of September that its second phase of the naval operation ‘Eunavfor Med’ would be launched on the 7th of October. In this second phase EU forces go beyond gathering surveillance on ‘smuggling networks’ and engage actively in boarding, searching, seizing and diverting vessels ‘suspected of being used for human smuggling or trafficking on the high seas’. As many other human rights groups and freedom of movement activists throughout and beyond Europe, we denounce this mission in the strongest possible terms as it will make sea crossings evermore dangerous and will imprison thousands who want to escape Libya and Northern Africa. In addition, the EU began negotiations with the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan over plans to further outsource EU border control to its neighbouring countries and secure its eastern borders in the Aegean region.

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