Overview of the EU's New Digital Border System EES and Its Implementation

Starting Sunday, most non-EU travelers entering the Schengen area will undergo biometric registration through the EU's new Entry/Exit System (EES), which requires a facial photograph and fingerprint scans, replacing passport stamping. This system aims to speed up border processing and enhance securi... [More info]

"The willingness to shut down any possibility of #asylum is a violation of law, the willingness to return people across a border at risk of persecution is a violation of international law,” says @commissionerHR

Moderate political leaders across Europe need “to stand up for #HumanRights” and not concede “own goals” to populists or “instrumentalising neighbouring states”

#refugees #migration #EUBorders #populism #asylrecht #asylrechtverteidigen

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/03/asylum-seekers-being-forcibly-expelled-at-eu-borders-says-top-rights-lawyer

🇪🇺 Deutschland verschiebt Start des EU-Einreise-/Ausreisesystems auf unbestimmte Zeit! 🚫 Die Bundesregierung lässt den Testbetrieb des neuen biometrischen Systems vorläufig platzen, da Stabilität und Funktionsfähigkeit nicht gewährleistet werden können. 🔒 Ursprünglich war die Inbetriebnahme für 2024 geplant, um Daten von Nicht-EU-Bürgern bei Ein- und Ausreise elektronisch zu erfassen. ⏰ #EUBorders #Biometrie #Datenschutz #Grenzkontrollen #Sicherheit von @matthimon

🔗 https://netzpolitik.org/2024/eu-einreise-ausreisesystem-deutschland-laesst-start-von-biometriesystem-vorlaeufig-platzen/

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Alarm Phone needs you…

On 11 October 2014, we inaugurated the #AlarmPhone network, an emergency telephone line designed to request or accompany rescue operations on European sea and land routes.

After 9 years of activity, the number of people needing assistance continues to rise and, as a result, our telephone costs - one of the major expenses of the network :
- in 2020: €28.900
- in 2021: €54.800
- in 2022: €143.800

To ensure that our financial situation does not hinder our work, we have decided to launch an international fundraising campaign to mark our 9th anniversary.
We invite you to watch the explanatory video created for this campaign:
https://youtu.be/GwXa645z_wg

Every #donation can help us continue our mission and keep answering the telephone.

#Crowdfunding: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/127506-alarmp-phone-sea-rescue-hotline-needs-donations-for-rising-phone-costs
Donations via bank transfer or PayPal here: https://alarmphone.org/en/donate/

Please distribute this campaign widely to your friends, family and camarades, to groups interested in these issues, and to anyone else who you feel are sympathetic to our cause. Thank you ❤️

You can follow us on:
- ... [unfortunately not on Mastodon]
- have a look at our website to find reports on differents regions: https://alarmphone.org/en/"

#EU #EuBorders

Happy Europe Day!

#EuropeDay #Europe #EUborders #refugees #migrants

#introduction - helloooooo I'm here from another instance.

(And yes, somehow I managed to mess up the migration. Don't ask.)

I'm an investigative journalist from the US and based in Barcelona. Bylines at the Intercept, the Guardian, Atavist, Politico EU and others - I've covered a lot to do with European Union border policing and the development and sale of dystopian toys for police in Europe.

#EUborders #searescue #mediterranean

New story @theintercept: In #Italy, #humanitarian rescuers are on trial for smuggling charges and facing possible decades-long prison sentences.

@dago and I got a copy of the full court file, and some of the details of the case are pretty wild

Here's the story: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/21/italy-iuventa-humanitarian-rescue/

And here's my first attempt at a thread on Mastodon, unpacking some of our findings:

#EUborders #searescue #Iuventa

On #Poland's schizophrenic border regime: while #refugees are welcomed on the Ukrainian border, the Belarusian border is a militarized "death zone" where humanitarian aid is criminalized.

30 dead, 200 missing, broken bones, food and water poisoning, dog bites, miscarriages, hypothermia, starvation, trauma..

https://twitter.com/ManuelaBoatca/status/1601534875659558912

#refugeeswelcome #EUBorders