EU approves tougher asylum rules
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European lawmakers approved tighter asylum rules allowing transfers of applicants to third countries and detention-style processing, and Italy reactivated deportations to Albania and signaled it could block rescue ships.
by Benjamin Braun Reposted by Daniela Gabor
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
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February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
by Laurent Pech
Slovakia should have never left the EU’s list of backsliding countries but instead we have returned to the regular expression of concerns cycle aka all talk no action…
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February 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Slovakia should have never left the EU’s list of backsliding countries but instead we have returned to the regular expression of concerns cycle aka all talk no action…
www.europarl.europa.eu/pdfs/news/ex...
www.europarl.europa.eu/pdfs/news/ex...
A big share of future historians will conclude that the difference btw US und EU in the 2020s was not in the scale or violence of their respective deportation enforcement regimes but in the scale and ferocity of public opposition to it. On average, Europeans cared far less.
February 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
A big share of future historians will conclude that the difference btw US und EU in the 2020s was not in the scale or violence of their respective deportation enforcement regimes but in the scale and ferocity of public opposition to it. On average, Europeans cared far less.