The 14th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now.

This month’s bulletin contains details about the EU's newest plan for 'degressive’ reintegration support, other means of ‘incentivising’ self-deportations, and twenty newly-obtained Council documents.

As ever, we hope this bulletin brings some clarity. If you would like to recieve the bulletin and our detailed overview straight to your inbox, sign up to our mailing list here: https://www.statewatch.org/outsourcing-borders-monitoring-eu-externalisation-policy/mailing-list/

The 12th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨

This edition covers:

• Efforts to expand Frontex’s mandate
• Growing concerns over the EU’s digital border systems
• Dutch and Belgian governments threaten to undermine EU's new migration "solidarity" system
• The latest moves on Safe Third Country rules, deportations to Afghanistan and the EUAA’s incoming Syria update

And much more, here: https://buff.ly/GK3RMMW

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The 11th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨

It covers:
• EU’s plan for a global counter-smuggling alliance
• Moves to use visa policy as leverage for deportations
• More weakening of safeguards deportation regulation
• Council papers on Turkey and Uzbekistan
• And much more

Read the full issue: https://www.statewatch.org/outsourcing-borders-monitoring-eu-externalisation-policy/bulletin-11/

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The 10th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨

This edition covers:
• Progress on EU plans for major migration routes
• Proposal for joint counter-trafficking work by Frontex and Egypt
• Growing EU role in migration control efforts in Côte d’Ivoire
• And much more.

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https://www.statewatch.org/outsourcing-borders-monitoring-eu-externalisation-policy/bulletin-10/

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The 9th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨

It covers:
• The extensive border externalisation operations across Africa;
• Plans to use development aid as leverage for deportations, with “voluntary” return programmes as cover;
• Budget proposals with more external migration control and less democratic scrutiny;
And much more.

It also makes 22 documents from EU institutions public.

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The 8th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨

This edition covers:

• EU security missions given a stronger migration control role
• New push to label categories of countries as “safe”
• Frontex failing to prevent pushbacks in the Balkans
• Member states demanding more money for migration control in new EU budget

Find the full issue here:

https://www.statewatch.org/outsourcing-borders-monitoring-eu-externalisation-policy/bulletin-8/

The 7th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨 

This issue covers:
• Continued EU support for racist violence in North Africa
• Potential "strengthening" of coercive visa sanctions
• €3 billion funding increase for border and immigration control
• and more.

Find the full issue here: https://www.statewatch.org/outsourcing-borders-monitoring-eu-externalisation-policy/bulletin-7/

The EU claims it will ensure human rights are respected — but without oversight, accountability is unlikely

This article and the documents have been released as part of our #ExternalisationBulletin, Outsourcing Borders. Find more here: https://www.statewatch.org/news/2025/may/deportation-camps-eu-member-states-want-to-prevent-judicial-scrutiny/

Statewatch | Deportation camps: EU member states want to “prevent judicial scrutiny”

Agreements between the EU and non-EU states on so-called “return hubs” should be “framed in flexible way” to “prevent judicial scrutiny.” This is according to a document produced by the Polish Presidency of the Council in February, obtained and published by Statewatch.

The 6th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! 🚨 It brings together:

• Analyses on EU impunity in Libya & billions to Egypt

• Civil society statements on Ceuta, Libya & more

• 32 leaked docs on deportation, detention & “safe third countries”

Read it now: https://www.statewatch.org/outsourcing-borders-monitoring-eu-externalisation-policy/bulletin-6/

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The 5th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! 🚨 

This issue focuses on the EU’s ‘Trumpian’ agenda for borders and deportations, and the increasing role of Frontex outside the EU. From visa and trade sanctions used as leverage to secretive decision-making processes, externalisation remains a dangerous and destabilising force in European policy.