tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56238385541416459272024-03-05T03:18:35.949-08:00Stop Evros WallΤο bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger723125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-46305496706539674112024-01-03T12:06:00.000-08:002024-01-03T12:06:40.491-08:00TestΤο bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-73253220306886184222023-11-30T15:10:00.000-08:002023-11-30T15:10:28.866-08:00Test11Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-36120974266848976212023-10-31T09:21:00.001-07:002023-10-31T09:21:27.434-07:00TestΤο bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-72400111057189851122023-09-30T08:28:00.002-07:002023-09-30T08:28:44.492-07:00TestΤο bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-46755912825841250992023-08-29T07:15:00.005-07:002023-08-29T07:15:40.534-07:00Test 3Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-55177924762315162472023-08-29T07:15:00.003-07:002023-08-29T07:15:25.982-07:00Test 2Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-6578614095960750142023-08-29T07:15:00.001-07:002023-08-29T07:15:10.091-07:00Test 1Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-40948061884423046452023-07-31T15:39:00.002-07:002023-07-31T15:39:37.842-07:00TestΤο bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-69851765720631333532023-06-30T13:20:00.001-07:002023-06-30T13:20:01.556-07:00TESTΤο bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-8687768601156104482023-06-30T13:19:00.006-07:002023-06-30T13:19:47.672-07:00TEST<p> TEST</p>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-75893953816326986902023-06-30T13:19:00.002-07:002023-06-30T13:19:27.401-07:00TEST<p> TEST</p>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-64065051809384707412023-05-31T11:32:00.007-07:002023-05-31T11:32:38.236-07:00TEST5Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-74719401953619563892023-05-31T11:32:00.004-07:002023-05-31T11:32:21.792-07:00TEST4Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-44245837652568059782023-05-31T11:32:00.001-07:002023-05-31T11:32:09.173-07:00TEST3Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-86359508450144617872023-05-31T11:31:00.005-07:002023-05-31T11:31:50.647-07:00TEST2Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-90964073999123431662023-05-31T11:31:00.002-07:002023-05-31T11:31:36.389-07:00TEST1Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-86416768104251773372023-04-27T16:33:00.003-07:002023-04-27T16:33:15.269-07:00[EN] RE: THE NAMELESS DEAD: IDENTIFYING MIGRANTS' BODIES IN GREECE<p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>ARTE TV</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vx7EvoKHamA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Vx7EvoKHamA"></iframe></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Thousands of migrants risk their lives by crossing the Evros River, the natural border between Greece and Turkey and many drown or die of hypothermia in the attempt. When bodies wash up on the riverbanks, identifying them is difficult: Forensic scientist Pavlos Pavlidis tries to find out these people’s names so that their families can be informed.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>7/2/2023</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/104430-012-A/re-the-nameless-dead/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/104430-012-A/re-the-nameless-dead/</span></a></b></span></p>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-75118440950172272382023-04-27T16:16:00.005-07:002023-04-27T16:18:14.417-07:00ΧΤΙΖΟΥΝ ΤΕΙΧΗ ΓΙΑ ΜΙΑ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ - ΦΡΟΥΡΙΟ<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>in.gr</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>Γιώργος Παυλόπουλος</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgjWU4cCHlrz_sfIW-nwCBhWKck1l7smsEa-o3hZ-kRw3SwkSU0APvAGAa0_8QS372YCiD2O8Jf7YvT-L1DSSNe763bdFhmUa1ctIoYan4-jDiqg5a1z3J3oROW8irY6RriJTmRWmL2-qb99jSTvCVMeVAIX3hfy2AVeXAlUe91vE9AmfVLDWhckov" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgjWU4cCHlrz_sfIW-nwCBhWKck1l7smsEa-o3hZ-kRw3SwkSU0APvAGAa0_8QS372YCiD2O8Jf7YvT-L1DSSNe763bdFhmUa1ctIoYan4-jDiqg5a1z3J3oROW8irY6RriJTmRWmL2-qb99jSTvCVMeVAIX3hfy2AVeXAlUe91vE9AmfVLDWhckov=w400-h266" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p></p><h2 class="description" style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(0, 135, 188); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Το στρατόπεδο των «σκληρών» φαίνεται πως επικρατεί στις τάξεις των ηγετών της ΕΕ έναντι εκείνων που προτείνουν μια πιο διαλλακτική (και ενδεχομένως πιο ρεαλιστική) προσέγγιση.</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Η Ευρώπη βρίσκεται και θα συνεχίσει να βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπη με αλλεπάλληλες </span><a href="https://www.in.gr/tags/%cf%80%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%83%cf%86%cf%85%ce%b3%ce%b5%cf%82/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">προσφυγικές κρίσεις</span></span></a><span style="color: white;"> τις οποίες, για πολλούς λόγους, δεν μπορεί να αποφύγει – αυτό είναι αδιαμφισβήτητο.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Ο </span><a href="https://www.in.gr/2023/02/23/world/oukrania-ena-xrono-meta-mia-pio-katastrofiki-poreia-isos-vrisketai-mprosta-mas/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">πόλεμος στην Ουκρανία</span></span></a><span style="color: white;">, το χτύπημα του Εγκέλαδου σε Τουρκία και Συρία, η επιταχυνόμενη κλιματική αλλαγή και, φυσικά, η φτώχεια οδηγούν κατά κύματα εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους στα σύνορά της. Ηδη δε, τα επίσημα στοιχεία του 2022 δείχνουν ότι τα σύννεφα αρχίζουν να σωρεύονται εκ νέου, κάνοντας τον πρόεδρο του ΕΛΚ, Μάνφρεντ Βέμπερ, να δηλώσει στο Politico ότι «υπνοβατούμε προς μια νέα προσφυγική κρίση».</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Απέναντι σε αυτή την εικόνα και με δεδομένη την αποτυχία των «27» να καταλήξουν σε κοινή πολιτική, η επιλογή την οποία έχουν κάνει αρκετοί εταίροι μοιάζει, συνειδητά ή ασυνείδητα, να οδηγεί τη Γηραιά Ηπειρο τρεις και πλέον δεκαετίες πίσω: Σχεδόν 34 χρόνια μετά την πτώση του Τείχους του Βερολίνου και την τελευταία οκταετία, έχουν κατασκευαστεί τείχη μήκους περίπου 1.700 χιλιομέτρων στα εξωτερικά σύνορα της ΕΕ. Κι αυτό, όπως αναφέρει η «El Pais», «όχι για να προστατευτούν από τανκς και στρατιώτες, αλλά από μετανάστες και πρόσφυγες».</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">«Το παλιό φάντασμα των τειχών ρίχνει πάλι τη σκιά του πάνω από την Ευρώπη» σημειώνει η ισπανική εφημερίδα. Κάπως έτσι, η δημιουργία μιας «Ευρώπης-φρουρίου» τείνει να γίνει πραγματικότητα. Κι αυτό παρά το γεγονός ότι πολλοί έχουν αμφισβητήσει τη συγκεκριμένη λύση, τόσο από πρακτικής όσο και από ηθικής σκοπιάς – ανάμεσά τους και ο Κλάους Ντοντς, συγγραφέας του βιβλίου «Οι Πόλεμοι των Συνόρων: Οι συγκρούσεις που θα διαμορφώσουν το μέλλον μας», ο οποίος δήλωσε στην «El Pais» ότι «φράχτες και τείχη σπανίως αποδίδουν τόσο καλά».</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Το ζήτημα, όπως ήταν αναμενόμενο, κυριάρχησε και στο ειδικό Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο που πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 9 Φεβρουαρίου. Τόσο πολιτικά όσο και οικονομικά, καθώς τίθεται, όπως πάντα, το μείζον ζήτημα του «ποιος θα πληρώσει». Υπενθυμίζεται, άλλωστε, ότι πριν από την έναρξη του Συμβουλίου 8 κράτη-μέλη (Αυστρία, Δανία, Σλοβακία, Εσθονία, Λετονία, Λιθουανία, Μάλτα και Ελλάδα) κατέθεσαν επιστολή με την οποία ζητούσαν όχι απλώς την ενίσχυση των συνόρων με συγκεκριμένα μέτρα, αλλά και τη χρηματοδότηση από την ΕΕ της κατασκευής των τειχών, μέσω του κονδυλίου των 6,7 τρισ. ευρώ που έχει ενταχθεί στον τρέχοντα επταετή προϋπολογισμό (ως το 2027) για τη διαχείριση των συνόρων.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Στο πλευρό τους δε φάνηκε πως είχαν και άλλες κυβερνήσεις, όπως της Τσεχίας, της Ουγγαρίας, της Βουλγαρίας, της Κύπρου, αλλά και της Ιταλίας, αποτυπώνοντας στην πράξη ένα εξαιρετικά ισχυρό μπλοκ, το οποίο άλλωστε είχε αρχίσει να συγκροτείται πολύ νωρίτερα, όπως αποδεικνύει και ανάλογη επιστολή που είχε σταλεί τον Οκτώβριο του 2021.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrWJLXkAGbbDYv4MzTFV214D5LC56wpC1Xy1zrby6XAaNa6WhGIbLUWqoxWUYR-SJ1uk1XsqN-WW_zCr_6qEHzXrk-G9nClUsLsT9ThViu-gYkamBkwquTekyUJxqh-Oly13x5zNY2aLKZO8Uo2mbqlg31LziBotKEtgAI6r6oCTgbTEy3ByNg8Mwl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrWJLXkAGbbDYv4MzTFV214D5LC56wpC1Xy1zrby6XAaNa6WhGIbLUWqoxWUYR-SJ1uk1XsqN-WW_zCr_6qEHzXrk-G9nClUsLsT9ThViu-gYkamBkwquTekyUJxqh-Oly13x5zNY2aLKZO8Uo2mbqlg31LziBotKEtgAI6r6oCTgbTEy3ByNg8Mwl=w335-h640" width="335" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Η «ολιστική» προσέγγιση</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Από την άλλη, η πρόεδρος της Κομισιόν και το «δίδυμο» Γερμανίας και Γαλλίας, μαζί φυσικά με αρκετές ακόμη χώρες, όπως η Ολλανδία, τάχθηκαν υπέρ μιας πιο ισορροπημένης και ρεαλιστικής προσέγγισης. Πρότειναν μια «ολιστική προσέγγιση», που θα περιλαμβάνει και την ενίσχυση των μέτρων επιτήρησης και προστασίας και την προσπάθεια σύναψης με τρίτες χώρες συμφωνιών ανάλογων εκείνης του 2016 με την Τουρκία.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Τελικώς, ύστερα από πολύωρη μάχη, στο τελικό ανακοινωθέν έδειξε να επικρατεί, στα σημεία έστω, η γραμμή των «σκληρών»: οι ηγέτες των «27», χωρίς να κάνουν λόγο για τείχη και φράχτες, έδωσαν εντολή στην Κομισιόν να «διαθέσει άμεσα σημαντικά κονδύλια και μέσα της ΕΕ (…) για την ενίσχυση των δυνατοτήτων και υποδομών προστασίας των συνόρων».</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Ετσι, μετά τη λήξη της συνόδου, ο αυστριακός καγκελάριος, Καρλ Νεχάμερ, ισχυρίστηκε ότι κάθε χώρα θα μπορεί πλέον να διαθέτει τα ευρωπαϊκά κονδύλια για επιτήρηση και εξοπλισμό και τα εθνικά για να κατασκευάζει τείχη.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Οσο δεν υπάρχει ένα Ευρωπαϊκό Σύμφωνο για τη Μετανάστευση, ίσως ορισμένοι αισθάνονται πιο ασφαλείς πίσω από οχυρώσεις.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Έντυπη έκδοση «</span><a href="https://www.tanea.gr/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">ΤΑ ΝΕΑ</span></a><span style="color: white;">»</span></span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>24/2/2023</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.in.gr/2023/02/24/world/xtizoun-teixi-gia-mia-eyropi-frourio/"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">https://www.in.gr/2023/02/24/world/xtizoun-teixi-gia-mia-eyropi-frourio/ </span></b></a></span></p></div>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-64108151067486123772023-03-30T14:53:00.012-07:002023-04-27T16:03:25.831-07:00[EN] GREECE BORDER ABUSES HIGHLIGHT EUROPE'S CLASHING PRIORITIES ON MIGRATION<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPccrk7cWPf_OpBPIHXAHatY4IhUozu22WDzQ9mDStJVCbxbNsFX9I2LlPaCVVIcNfqZTg3wrw59Q1pUCRaGt8BpUSPEdxl0ERAbq3qkBcKSfb-ULfBFl-ltXYXEodkPRkQIclNGSKuwQdJK2q7qwHR1Yln1-CYOg53qlq_7_l8mBo3wqY_q9hBX7q" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="355" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPccrk7cWPf_OpBPIHXAHatY4IhUozu22WDzQ9mDStJVCbxbNsFX9I2LlPaCVVIcNfqZTg3wrw59Q1pUCRaGt8BpUSPEdxl0ERAbq3qkBcKSfb-ULfBFl-ltXYXEodkPRkQIclNGSKuwQdJK2q7qwHR1Yln1-CYOg53qlq_7_l8mBo3wqY_q9hBX7q=w181-h72" width="181" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">The top rights officer at Europe’s border agency said in </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">a confidential report that it should stop working with Greece </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">because border guards there were mistreating asylum seekers.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBwkEwxyWrohu51janoXqNl6EEAIlDZIdoAvjIfCSme1jMZjqZ0agtaasdMf_tno4owNTnaxqFXI6nIj8nxd3eWTreSUISJk2CbgOpFsGkIaELA_iOh_Sm8zIfnktylQHXn3adlyWM3_TgvKJr5bRabFfV5_JWHj1YuXEWTv6_od34ZoCSvkPIRgRC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBwkEwxyWrohu51janoXqNl6EEAIlDZIdoAvjIfCSme1jMZjqZ0agtaasdMf_tno4owNTnaxqFXI6nIj8nxd3eWTreSUISJk2CbgOpFsGkIaELA_iOh_Sm8zIfnktylQHXn3adlyWM3_TgvKJr5bRabFfV5_JWHj1YuXEWTv6_od34ZoCSvkPIRgRC" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Border guards with the Greek police patrol a barrier between Greece and Turkey in October. Greece has been criticized for forcing people back into Turkey without processing their asylum requests.</span></span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit...</span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="false" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Petros </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Giannakouris/Associated Press</span><br /></span><br /></span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div aria-hidden="true" class="css-1jgcahq ey68jwv0" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px auto; min-width: 120px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="css-1jgcahq ey68jwv0" style="border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px auto; min-width: 120px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><a class="css-uwwqev" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/monika-pronczuk" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 100%; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><img alt="Monika Pronczuk" class="css-dc6zx6 ey68jwv2" pinger-seen="true" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/10/06/reader-center/author-monika-pronczuk/author-monika-pronczuk-thumbLarge.png" style="border-radius: 50%; border: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 50px;" title="Monika Pronczuk" /></a><a class="css-uwwqev" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/matina-stevis-gridneff" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 100%; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><img alt="Matina Stevis-Gridneff" class="css-dc6zx6 ey68jwv2" pinger-seen="true" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/09/26/reader-center/author-matina-stevis-gridneff/author-matina-stevis-gridneff-thumbLarge.png" style="border-radius: 50%; border: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 50px;" title="Matina Stevis-Gridneff" /></a></div><div class="css-233int epjyd6m0" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="css-4anu6l e1jsehar1" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="byline-prefix" style="border: 0px; color: white; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">By </span><span class="css-1baulvz" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/monika-pronczuk" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Monika Pronczuk</span></a></span><span style="color: white;"> and </span><span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/matina-stevis-gridneff" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Matina Stevis-Gridneff</span></a></span></p></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Monika Pronczuk and Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Brussels. Between them they have written about migration from most European frontiers over the past decade.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The human rights chief of the European Union border agency said last year that it should stop operating in Greece because of serial abuses by Greek border guards, including violently pushing asylum seekers back to Turkey and separating migrant children from their parents, according to confidential documents reviewed by The New York Times.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The E.U. agency, Frontex, deploys border guards from around Europe to help the Greek authorities with border operations, and provides equipment such as helicopters, boats and drones paid for by European taxpayers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Instead of following the recommendation, taking legal action against Greece or investigating the findings, the E.U. set up an obscure “working group.” In a follow-up finding submitted last month, the rights chief said that there had been “no change in the reported practice.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The reticence to act highlights a major tension in Europe’s migration policy: how to keep the number of migrants low while adhering to European laws.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The bloc’s rules protect the right of people to be given a chance to apply for asylum, and oblige E.U. nations to uphold that right.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">But the arrival of more than one million refugees, mostly from Syria in 2015-2016, recast politics across Europe, pushing even traditionally progressive E.U. countries to the right and fueling the rise of identity politics.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">After several years with fewer migrant arrivals in the E.U., angst over migration is now back.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQD6pGEvh5r1NcPGNJ_brk3CWNYw0U-58OmcoNbiUUMyr21x9OJh7iVtZm1f_hKOyCLrhivHJxMvdgNoxTH8lmba8XsP_my1pJhKszxwIN3ZRV-NSXLoN1QcV9c5N5NmyTyrl9gAqJn_nlyGCpNnG4YxvZ8BZ43KOrQip5978BbHEpg4v-E4CEtft0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQD6pGEvh5r1NcPGNJ_brk3CWNYw0U-58OmcoNbiUUMyr21x9OJh7iVtZm1f_hKOyCLrhivHJxMvdgNoxTH8lmba8XsP_my1pJhKszxwIN3ZRV-NSXLoN1QcV9c5N5NmyTyrl9gAqJn_nlyGCpNnG4YxvZ8BZ43KOrQip5978BbHEpg4v-E4CEtft0" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Members of the European border agency Frontex outside a migrant camp on the Greek island of Kos in 2021. Frontex deploys border guards from around Europe to help Greece with border operations.</span></span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit...</span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="false" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Almost five million people, a record number, sought protection in the bloc last year. The vast majority, some four million, were Ukrainians who came through legal routes and were immediately granted the right to stay and work.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The remaining approximately 800,000 asylum seekers, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, arrived in the bloc via unofficial routes, including the Greek-Turkish border.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">In this political environment, the drive to keep down the number of arrivals has intensified, often trumping commitments to legal and human-rights protections, and becoming a priority over and above putting in place a shared, functioning policy.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">“Among member states, there is currently no other consensus than on border control,” said Camino Mortera-Martínez, the head of the Brussels office of the Center for European Reform. “The debate on common asylum policy is going nowhere, so countries on external borders are left to their own devices.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The case of Greece is emblematic of these complex dynamics.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">For years, Greece, one of Europe’s biggest gateways for migrants arriving through Turkey, has been criticized by human rights organizations for forcibly sending people back to Turkey without processing their asylum requests.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">But the E.U. needs Greece to keep its border tight; most migrants and asylum seekers who arrive in Greece go on to settle elsewhere in the bloc, in places like Germany, where there are more jobs and established migrant communities.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">“The E.U. as an organization, and Greece as a frontline state, have a legal obligation to protect the external borders of the Schengen area,” said Ms. Mortera-Martínez, referring to Europe’s internal borderless region. “Because once someone comes in, they can freely move around.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglh5flJsNBXc6IEt1-H_PINMdscOYymAEl0pUbZnliKGkXKemfdJ6PeOuHLIp6wHP4Cac_HxXAFjwbBalJTVYEqFH3bEQbQKR2t8okQdMKzgkTekS6VGavo2mbUQXP7YavVdED9ygAJuR53Uv-z4oWQxsaIlAse0ZMUrHSI0m-_Aw2d061zapeTcZ-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglh5flJsNBXc6IEt1-H_PINMdscOYymAEl0pUbZnliKGkXKemfdJ6PeOuHLIp6wHP4Cac_HxXAFjwbBalJTVYEqFH3bEQbQKR2t8okQdMKzgkTekS6VGavo2mbUQXP7YavVdED9ygAJuR53Uv-z4oWQxsaIlAse0ZMUrHSI0m-_Aw2d061zapeTcZ-" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A dinghy with Afghan refugees approaches the Greek island of Lesbos in 2020, followed by a border patrol boat from Britain operating as part of Frontex.</span></span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit...</span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="false" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</span><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The role of Frontex is to help countries like Greece guard the borders but also to create a European standard for how to do so humanely and in accordance with E.U. law. But the agency, which has grown over the past decade to become the E.U.’s best-funded,</span><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/world/europe/frontex-migrants-pushback-greece.html" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title=""><span style="color: #3d85c6;">has been accused</span></a><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">of overlooking, covering up and even carrying out human rights violations.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Last year, its executive director</span><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/world/europe/frontex-eu-border-agency-fabrice-leggeri.html" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title=""><span style="color: #3d85c6;">stepped down</span></a><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">after accusations of harassment, mismanagement and rights abuses. New leadership vowed changes, including strengthening the role of the rights chief.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The Greek files illustrate how, even in this bolstered role, the fundamental rights officer remains marginal when political decisions are at stake, such as suspending Frontex’s work in Greece.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The human rights officer, Jonas Grimheden, issues confidential quarterly reports on conditions and abuses at E.U. borders, including countries such as Poland and Italy, as well as Greece.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">In the reports for the last two quarters, which were seen by The Times, the Greek segment is the longest and most dramatic.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The officer wrote that he had gathered continued “credible reports” of the Greek authorities systematically expelling migrants at both sea and land borders, denying them access to protection, separating children from their parents and treating migrants in a “degrading” way.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The severity of these claims prompted the officer to recommend suspending the operation, after he issued three escalating “opinions,” documenting his findings in detail, over the course of 2022, the documents said.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The documentation of illegal practices in Greece by Frontex’s human rights chief is significant, experts said, because it comes from the agency itself, rather than outside sources like the news media or nongovernmental organizations.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">“By staying in an operation where there are rights violations, Frontex is in breach of the rule of law,” said Luisa Marin, a legal fellow at the Florence-based European University Institute and University of Insubria. Dr. Marin said there had been a “systematic disregard” of internal rules by Frontex’s management.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The officer’s recommendations are nonbinding, Frontex said in written comments to The Times. It said that it was addressing concerns together with the Greek authorities, and that the human rights officer had reported “progress” late last month.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfnYxPtgf76lePFevACfbKw8TXU08278B87wWZBguJrHjoEJPT3QgpFJkylixVTCrLUwF9rJK--6ikmIWSvm1zqgnbdW5YYagmboq0gwfqFj957yM6XXWi-aCeJg0oO9Xf8lnDozy6RU4VjfyGdV0inzblNWNi0PghSbd9qLQfLcFOpNcalIS4FlH7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1463" data-original-width="2048" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfnYxPtgf76lePFevACfbKw8TXU08278B87wWZBguJrHjoEJPT3QgpFJkylixVTCrLUwF9rJK--6ikmIWSvm1zqgnbdW5YYagmboq0gwfqFj957yM6XXWi-aCeJg0oO9Xf8lnDozy6RU4VjfyGdV0inzblNWNi0PghSbd9qLQfLcFOpNcalIS4FlH7" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Frontex border guards in Kastanies, Greece, detain migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea who entered from Turkey in 2020. The human rights chief at Frontex said he had gathered “credible reports” of abuse of migrants.</span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Credit...</span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="false" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Byron Smith/Getty Images</span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">“As a conclusion, currently, we don’t see a reason to pull out from one of the most challenging border areas of the whole E.U.,” Frontex said in a statement.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Mr. Grimheden said in an interview that he had drafted “opinions escalating the concerns I have seen in Greece, and reported on that to the Management Board throughout 2022 but also earlier and this year.” He added that he saw “some positive procedural steps being taken by Greece, which now have to lead to concrete results on the ground.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">European Commission said it reserved its right to launch a process, known as an infringement procedure, that could lead to taking Greece to court. Frontex has only once suspended operations over human rights abuses, in Hungary in 2021, after this procedure led to a successful court case against the country.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The Greek government said that it respected European and international law and that the allegations were being investigated. It also said that it had appointed its own human rights officer and had a broader plan, developed with the Commission, to tackle problems.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">“Protecting Europe from irregular arrivals is a priority for the European Council,” the Greek government said, referring to an E.U. leaders meeting in Brussels last week.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">A statement after the meeting on Friday made no mention of human rights or European asylum law, but the leaders demanded more money from the bloc’s budget to build fences to keep out would-be migrants and asylum seekers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">“I am glad we agreed on operational and concrete steps forward,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the Commission, told the news media after the summit. “We will act to strengthen our external borders and prevent irregular migration.”</span></span><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDxlLB5W262lmrO-u3twsfZZuN8zULHdYFABUIBIOWX0k65Nge-TXlygaWtH8ilGyckxzIQFfQxdL2WPw3HIzKdTpr7CHALBM66Jc9_xICrKOymnOV0GN8KYP1eBfWlDaxNNRCcGYtoGz9KNkSpyteZZsFhytmO-7iMBI8ojnPz9z1GhUF2aSVFBy0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDxlLB5W262lmrO-u3twsfZZuN8zULHdYFABUIBIOWX0k65Nge-TXlygaWtH8ilGyckxzIQFfQxdL2WPw3HIzKdTpr7CHALBM66Jc9_xICrKOymnOV0GN8KYP1eBfWlDaxNNRCcGYtoGz9KNkSpyteZZsFhytmO-7iMBI8ojnPz9z1GhUF2aSVFBy0" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Spanish aid workers throw life jackets to migrants on an overcrowded rubber dinghy 100 miles from the Libyan coast last year. </span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Credit...</span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="false" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Pau De La Calle/Associated Press</span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: black;">14/2/2023</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="goog_521927012" style="background-color: black;"><br /></a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/world/europe/eu-greece-border-abuses.html"><span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/world/europe/eu-greece-border-abuses.html</span></a></b></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-69542586737579022892023-03-30T14:53:00.010-07:002023-04-27T13:53:33.107-07:00[EN] GREEK-TURKISH BORDER: RECORDER OF THE DEAD FROM EVROS<p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>GLOBE WORLD NEWS ECHO</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>David Sadler</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm_U7jPjE0zDlBh7HnXJd0YyZHcWo0V72Vw-ibJclQwVziFwmyn0v9HAblOqULBUHD18TG3VsIoNd20T1yDrpY1angEsgN7DKGIYKWe8PxXlDlq0b2-8GUZnsLvK3Vj6ue9uzKtHR43bXfsI8nh78ewMSQt-8cCO_W_7kSOLoSvivVmk-qrw9pgasx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="750" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm_U7jPjE0zDlBh7HnXJd0YyZHcWo0V72Vw-ibJclQwVziFwmyn0v9HAblOqULBUHD18TG3VsIoNd20T1yDrpY1angEsgN7DKGIYKWe8PxXlDlq0b2-8GUZnsLvK3Vj6ue9uzKtHR43bXfsI8nh78ewMSQt-8cCO_W_7kSOLoSvivVmk-qrw9pgasx" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><div><p class="m-ten" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.65pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Not only on the
Mediterranean, but also on the Evros border river, people are dying trying to
escape to the EU. Undocumented dead end up with coroner Pavlidis. He determines
the identities – and restores some dignity to the deceased.</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.65pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">By Rüdiger Kronthaler, ARD Studio Rome<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">
</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.65pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Pavlos Pavlidis enters the autopsy room in the University Hospital in
Alexandroupoli. On behalf of the public prosecutor’s office, he has to autopsy
a find. He is the forensic doctor on the Evros, the border river between Greece
and Turkey, the EU’s external border.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span class="id-card__name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><span class="id-card__name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rudiger Kronthaler</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="id-card__studio" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ARD studio Rome</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Pavlidis examined 63 dead refugees in 2022, more than ever before in one year. “The first thing I do is take photos,” says Pavlidis. Even if the river is not particularly wide, the leading cause of death is drowning. “Many refugees often cannot swim well and the tugboats overload the boats, which capsize easily,” explains the doctor.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Pavlidis: on the Greek side 600 dead in 22 years</b></span></p><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Many dead are also found on land in the forests near the border. Pavlidis found hypothermia and diseases caused by exhaustion to be the most common causes of death among them.</span></span></p><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;">“In the last 22 years I’ve seen around 600 dead – only on the Greek side,” says the medical examiner. “Theoretically and hypothetically, we can say that there are just as many dead on the Turkish side. So we’re talking about 1,200 to 1,500 people.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">The Greeks call the border river Evros, in Turkish it is called Meriç</span></p><h2 class="meldung__subhead columns twelve m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“There’s a life in every bag”</span></h2><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Since most of the refugees found have no papers with them, Pavlidis also has to clarify their identity. To do this, he measures the size of the bones during the autopsy, takes a DNA sample and looks for special features.</span></span></p><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">He also collects the personal belongings of the dead. Under his desk are two large boxes with numbered bags containing watches, jewelry and prayer beads. They belong to dead people whose identity is still unclear, says Pavlidis. “There is a life in each of these bags. The question mark remains as far as their data is concerned. We have not managed to return these dead to their relatives.”</span></span></p><h2 class="meldung__subhead columns twelve m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">38 km long fence system</span></span></h2><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The border on the Evros is strictly shielded and has been fortified with a massive 38-kilometer fence since 2020. Nevertheless, according to the UNHCR, more than one in three refugees came to Greece overland last year, a total of 6,000 people.</span></span></p><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Does the expansion of the border only shift the routes of the refugees instead of stopping them and thus makes the escape more dangerous? Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi says no and urges the fence to be expanded with European support.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>“We need the fence,” emphasizes the minister. “It is part of the strategy of protecting the external border.” At the same time, negotiations are to be held with Turkey on better retention of refugees.</span></span></p><h2 class="meldung__subhead columns twelve m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“If they are children, then it is more depressing for me”</span></span></h2><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Forensic pathologist Pavlidis has meanwhile analyzed the find. “My first impression is it’s a young man, about 20 years old,” he says. “We don’t have a skull, just some bones. We don’t know the cause of death.”</span></span></p><p class="m-ten m-offset-one l-eight l-offset-two textabsatz columns twelve" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Pavlidis – the recorder of the Evros dead – stores the dead man’s DNA in a database so that the police can compare it with open search queries. “There shouldn’t be any particularly hard cases for me,” explains the doctor. “But when it’s children, it’s more depressing for me.”</span></span></p><h3 class="copytext__audio__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nameless dead at EU external border</span></h3><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;">Rüdiger Kronthaler, ARD Rome, 02/08/2023 08:07 a.</span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">m</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>8/2/2023</b></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://globeecho.com/news/europe/germany/greek-turkish-border-recorder-of-the-dead-from-evros/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>https://globeecho.com/news/europe/germany/greek-turkish-border-recorder-of-the-dead-from-evros/</b></span></a></span></span></p></div>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-2787750386352283522023-02-28T13:22:00.004-08:002023-02-28T13:22:33.879-08:00[EN] GREECE: CONFLICTING MESSAGING BY GOVERNMENT AS EVROS BORDER IS FURTHER FORTIFIED AND PUSHBACKS CONTINUE, SYRIAN REFUGEES INCREASINGLY UNSAFE IN TURKIYE DEEMED SAFE BY GREECE<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6NhrszCGvDmI7GXx4Y3oKpgvj6G8Ag2msL1M0qTZZL4d2HaWFLenncEZEB3D3KCF5iQAHTmoZixlSYh8mOSx8-cJY1MG1Z753vWOlbPCAKKepSbhTYhg5jX7mltIvSEWHihn-LVPNh0WbVku4ELHdC4hl5uARKf-E9ZgHgxEDW7t0bmY2U9vA3iB/s600/GREECE%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="600" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6NhrszCGvDmI7GXx4Y3oKpgvj6G8Ag2msL1M0qTZZL4d2HaWFLenncEZEB3D3KCF5iQAHTmoZixlSYh8mOSx8-cJY1MG1Z753vWOlbPCAKKepSbhTYhg5jX7mltIvSEWHihn-LVPNh0WbVku4ELHdC4hl5uARKf-E9ZgHgxEDW7t0bmY2U9vA3iB/w400-h234/GREECE%20(1).png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Greek ministers are at one and the same time boasting over “dramatic” reduction of arrivals and urging assistance and solidarity from EU as member states of first reception cannot be left alone with “burden”. The fortification of the Evros region continues amid more reports of pushbacks. Syrian refugees facing an increasingly hostile environment and potential deportation in </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-violations-and-deflection-continue-as-does-eu-support-and-will-full-ignorance-euaa-joins-frontex-on-controversy-list-unsafe-turkiye-remains-safe-third-cou/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Turkiye</span></a><span style="color: white;"> – deemed safe third country by Greece.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">The messaging from the Greek government on arrivals seems somewhat incoherent. </span><a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1202516/minister-says-migrant-arrival-numbers-sharply-down/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to Minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi the number of migrants arriving has dropped “dramatically” over the past two years and the number of asylum seekers residing in the country has also fallen. “After the explosion in the period 2015-2019, in 2021 we had the lowest flows of the decade, 8,745, and steadily low in 2022 too”. “The result is that instead of 92,000 asylum seekers living in 121 facilities, we have today 14,000 in 33 facilities,” the minister said, noting that in 2015 arrivals in Greece accounted for 75 per cent of the total number of irregular arrivals in the European Union, while in 2022 that figure stood at just per cent. Nonetheless Greek Minister for Civil Protection, Takis Theodorikakos urged EU support to control the number of people arriving in Greece. Speaking before ambassadors from other EU member states and Switzerland and the UK, Theodorikakos </span><a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Greece-expanding-border-wall-calls-for-EU-help-17732750.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">stated</span></a><span style="color: white;">: “The task (of protecting the border) needs the support … of European public opinion, the European Union itself and its constituent members individually”. The minister further pointed out: “It is our steadfast position that member states of first reception cannot be (the migrants’) only European destinations. There must be solidarity among member-states and a fair sharing of duties…close coordination is a must”.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Regardless of the different interpretations of the reality, the Greek response to the alleged threat at the Evros border with Türkiye is rather concrete and manifest. The steel wall on the Evros, currently extending more than 27 kilometers, </span><a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Greece-expanding-border-wall-calls-for-EU-help-17732750.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">is being expanded</span></a><span style="color: white;"> adding a 35-kilometer stretch with the aim to</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/46290/construction-dun-mur-a-la-frontiere-avec-la-turquie--la-grece-demande-laide-de-lue" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">cover most of the</span></a></span><span style="color: white;"> 192-kilometer border with Türkiye. Greece </span><a href="https://www.amna.gr/en/article/702391/Citizen-Protection-Minister-Takis-Theodorikakos-briefs-27-ambassadors-from-EU-countries-on-effective-protection-of-EUs-external-borders?fbclid=IwAR1s6VgtiM0dFldcsBCwm434c3Z1JpNo3kTv39N-6k3RCGFbIDVe2Xf2Lfk" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">recently announced</span></a><span style="color: white;"> the deployment of 400 </span><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/22/greece-says-it-prevented-260000-migrants-from-entering-in-2022" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Frontex officers</span></a><span style="color: white;"> in Evros in 2023 adding to the 1,800 border guards already serving in the region. “Without the presence of these modern European border guards -who operate effectively as a deterrent – millions of migrants waiting to enter Europe would have moved to the border,” said Theodorikakos. Most notably the minister </span><a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1202866/greece-needs-eu-help-to-protect-external-borders-minister-says/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">confirmed that</span></a><span style="color: white;"> Greek authorities have “prevented” 260,000 “illegal” migrants from entering the country and that Greek border guards prevent 300-400 people from entering on a daily basis. The minister, representing a government widely denounced for denying and deflecting mounting reports of systematic pushbacks, did not offer any details on how this “prevention” was conducted.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">However, despite the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ABoatReport/status/1618219744594898944" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">ongoing crackdown</span></a><span style="color: white;"> on NGOs and independent media and limitations on access to monitor violations, reports of pushbacks continue to emerge. </span><a href="https://aegeanboatreport.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-take-out-the-trash/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to Aegean Boat Report: “Only 18 per cent of people who started their trip towards the Greek Aegean islands in 2022 managed to arrive and were given the opportunity to apply for asylum”. The organisation notes: “This means 82 per cent ended up back in Turkey, due to pushbacks (41 per cent), engine problems, or being stopped by the Turkish coast guard (TCG) (41 per cent). Out of a total of 21,152 people who actually managed to arrive on the Greek islands: “9.656 (46 per cent) were forcibly removed by Greek authorities and left helplessly drifting in 575 life rafts in the Aegean Sea”. The </span><a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/46229/fearing-pushbacks-migrants-seek-a-safe-haven-in-mavrovouni-camp-of-lesbos" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">fear of pushbacks</span></a><span style="color: white;"> for people arriving via the Aegean Sea is well-founded as a recent </span><a href="https://legalcentrelesvos.org/2023/01/17/press-release-forensic-reconstruction-video-released-today-evincing-the-greek-authorities-illegal-expulsion-of-200-migrants-off-the-coast-of-crete-in-2020/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">f</a><a href="https://legalcentrelesvos.org/2023/01/17/press-release-forensic-reconstruction-video-released-today-evincing-the-greek-authorities-illegal-expulsion-of-200-migrants-off-the-coast-of-crete-in-2020/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">orensic reconstruction</span></a><span style="color: white;"> released by Legal Centre Lesvos, illustrates. The video documentation of an incident during a storm off Crete in October 2020 demonstrates how the Hellenic Coast Guard, instead of rescuing the approximately 200 people who were in distress at sea: “violently attacked, detained, and ultimately abandoned them at sea in a massive coordinated and illegal pushback operation”. According to the organisation that </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/greece/new-case-filed-against-greece-european-court-massive-pushback-operation-over-180" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">filed a case</span></a><span style="color: white;"> against Greece before ECtHR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="color: white;">on behalf of 11 Syrian survivors “to date, the Greek authorities have denied that the pushback took place”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span style="color: white;"> The danger of the route was further illustrated when the body of an unknown person was recovered in late January on the coast of Kythira. The deceased </span><a href="https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koinonia/375811_ptoma-konta-sto-polynekro-nayagio-ton-kythiron-treisimisi-mines-meta" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">is believed</span></a><a href="https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koinonia/375811_ptoma-konta-sto-polynekro-nayagio-ton-kythiron-treisimisi-mines-meta" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> to</span></a><span style="color: white;"> be a victim of a shipwreck on 5 October last year leaving 11 people missing.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Based on information from the Greek government, data from UNHCR and updates from the Aegean Boat Report, Koraki </span><a href="https://www.koraki.org/post/2022-summary-pushbacks-the-facts-and-the-realities-behind-them" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">estimates</span></a><span style="color: white;"> “that around 70,000 people arrived in Greece in 2022, yet just 16,683 were registered as new arrivals”. Koraki notes that because of the lack of reliable figures: “we cannot be clear how many people have actually entered Greece ‘by land’ (across the Evros river, in fact), only to be pushed back”. However, systematic pushbacks and non-response to distress alerts in the Evros region,despite interventions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), continue, including recent examples </span><a href="https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1615763636089126934" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">d</a><a href="https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1615763636089126934" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">ocumented by the</span></a><span style="color: white;"> NGO hotline Alarm Phone, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/vedatyeler_/status/1617581909592113154" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">journalists</span></a><span style="color: white;"> and </span><a href="https://www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/merici-gecen-demir-cifti-surgun-yollarina-dustuk-haber-1599743" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">media</span></a><span style="color: white;">. </span><a href="https://www.nchr.gr/ta-nea-mas/1543-deltio-typou-parousiasi-tou-mixanismoy-katagrafis-peristatikon-atypon-anagkastikon-epistrofon-kai-tis-protis-endiamesis-ekthesis-tou.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">On 24 January</span></a><span style="color: white;">, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), which is the </span><a href="https://www.nchr.gr/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">National Institution for Human Rights</span></a><span style="color: white;"> in Greece and the independent advisory body of the State on issues of promotion and protection of human rights presented the Mechanism for Recording Incidents of Informal Forced Returns and its first </span><a href="https://www.nchr.gr/images/pdf/nea_epikairothta/deltia_tupou/2023/Interim_Report_Mechanism_gr.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Interim Report</span></a><span style="color: white;">. Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://twitter.com/rspaegean/status/1617900737933250560" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">welcomed the</span></a> </span><span style="color: white;">initiative, stating: “It is an important day regarding the systematic recording of illegal informal forced returns from Greece to third countries, at a time when the defenders of the rights of refugees are receiving repeated blows”. The organisation further called the at least 50 incidents of informal forced returns documented in the interim report “shocking”. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lk2015r/status/1617919381803257856" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to researcher, Eva K: “24 out of 50 incidents concerned Evros. She noted: “Don’t know to what extent this can be seen as representative, but if so …most incidents happen at the border most difficult to monitor”.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-increase-of-pushbacks-with-impunity-amid-ongoing-crackdown-on-solidarity-turkiye-considered-safe-by-greek-authorities-sets-new-record-of-deportations-thousands-of-vulnerabl/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">As Greek</span></a> </span><span style="color: white;">authorities </span><a href="https://migration.gov.gr/etisia-epikairopoiisi-asfalon-choron-proeleysis-kai-dieleysis/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">announced</span></a><span style="color: white;"> on 1 December 2020, </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-violations-and-deflection-continue-as-does-eu-support-and-will-full-ignorance-euaa-joins-frontex-on-controversy-list-unsafe-turkiye-remains-safe-third-cou/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Turkiye</span></a><span style="color: white;"> remains on the list of “safe” third countries for applicants of international protection from main countries of origin including Syria. However, the situation for Syrian refugees in Turkiye has dramatically worsened over the past months due to the </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-increase-of-pushbacks-with-impunity-amid-ongoing-crackdown-on-solidarity-turkiye-considered-safe-by-greek-authorities-sets-new-record-of-deportations-thousands-of-vulnerabl/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">risk of deportation</span></a><span style="color: white;">, as well as </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-violations-and-deflection-continue-as-does-eu-support-and-will-full-ignorance-euaa-joins-frontex-on-controversy-list-unsafe-turkiye-remains-safe-third-cou/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">arrest, detention and ill-treatment</span></a><span style="color: white;"> by authorities, and a raise</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <a href="https://ecre.org/greece-government-states-150000-people-have-been-averted-but-denies-pushbacks-safe-third-country-inadmissibility-decisions-continue-as-hate-crimes-are-on-the-ris/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">in hate crimes</span></a></span><span style="color: white;">. </span><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/01/syrian-refugees-turkey-watch-uneasily-erdogan-warms-assad" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to Al Monitor: “Turkey’s bid to reconcile with the Syrian government has left many Syrian refugees in the country on tenterhooks as </span><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/01/turkish-defense-chief-warns-syrian-rebels-against-provocation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ankara faces pressure</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to cut a deal with Damascus on the return of the Syrians amid rising anti-refugee sentiment in a critical election year”. Media </span><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-far-right-bus-tickets-sold-deport-syrian-refugees" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">reports</span></a><span style="color: white;"> how the Turkish far-right sells bus tickets’ to deport Syrian refugees in a new campaign with the Victory Party promising “donations will be spent on deporting Syrians, asking for names of people its supporters want out of the country”. Carnegie Middle East Center </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/88812" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">describes a</a> </span><span style="color: white;">“refugee fatigue” in the country, stating: “Most political parties—in the governing coalition and opposition alike—want to send refugees back to Syria, where there is no internationally-approved agreement toward ending the civil war. Nor has there been normalization between Syria and Turkey. This represents a toxic political cocktail for the refugees”. </span><a href="https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria_durable_solutions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there were 3,535,898</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="color: white;">registered Syrian refugees in Turkey as of December 31, 2022.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">For further information:</span></span></p><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">ECRE, </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-increase-of-pushbacks-with-impunity-amid-ongoing-crackdown-on-solidarity-turkiye-considered-safe-by-greek-authorities-sets-new-record-of-deportations-thousands-of-vulnerabl/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Greece: Increase of Pushbacks with Impunity Amid Ongoing Crackdown on Solidarity, Türkiye Considered “Safe” by Greek Authorities Sets New Record of Deportations, Thousands of Vulnerable Refugees Left Without Adequate Accommodation After Closing of ESTIA Programme</span></a><span style="color: white;">, January 2023</span></span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">ECRE, </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-violations-and-deflection-continue-as-does-eu-support-and-will-full-ignorance-euaa-joins-frontex-on-controversy-list-unsafe-turkiye-remains-safe-third-cou/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Greece: Violations and Deflection Continue as Does EU Support and Will-full ‘Ignorance’, EUAA Joins Frontex on Controversy List, Unsafe Türkiye Remains ‘Safe’ Third Country</span></a>,</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"> December 2022</span></li></ul><div align="center" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><hr size="2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="90%" /></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">This article appeared in the </span><a href="https://ecre.org/media/ecre-weekly-bulletin/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">ECRE Weekly Bulletin</span></a><span style="color: white;">. You can subscribe to the Weekly Bulletin </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/TlRPX" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">here</span></a><span style="color: white;">.</span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>27/1/2023</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="goog_456323874"><br /></a></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-conflicting-messaging-by-government-as-evros-border-is-further-fortified-and-pushbacks-continue-syrian-refugees-increasingly-unsafe-in-turkiye-deemed-safe-by-greece/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">https://ecre.org/greece-conflicting-messaging-by-government-as-evros-border-is-further-fortified-and-pushbacks-continue-syrian-refugees-increasingly-unsafe-in-turkiye-deemed-safe-by-greece/</span></a></b></span></div>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-88496130494775208062023-02-28T12:36:00.013-08:002023-02-28T12:43:32.900-08:00ΟΔΥΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΟΡΓΗ ΞΕΦΥΛΛΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗ ΝΕΑ «ΜΑΥΡΗ ΒΙΒΛΟ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΑΝΑΠΡΟΩΘΗΣΕΩΝ»<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDnyGw4gLGVBgwx4k2wbXqL_bBgosB9QH6ZvXgdYu7LJE7V5tYP1b459qgkrG6yabGsa9DuuKFd4LP1YrMEksnZCpvpo-J2JbCy0NSPc7qtxLVwzl487vQv3WlYXkHjPaQe6HoUfdAOhdT3EeaZeVDzz-y42gvABijjIHRGqc7FMM8zpX60EDtmmg/s538/%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%20%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%88%CE%B7%CF%82%20(4).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="93" data-original-width="538" height="42" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDnyGw4gLGVBgwx4k2wbXqL_bBgosB9QH6ZvXgdYu7LJE7V5tYP1b459qgkrG6yabGsa9DuuKFd4LP1YrMEksnZCpvpo-J2JbCy0NSPc7qtxLVwzl487vQv3WlYXkHjPaQe6HoUfdAOhdT3EeaZeVDzz-y42gvABijjIHRGqc7FMM8zpX60EDtmmg/w246-h42/%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%20%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%88%CE%B7%CF%82%20(4).png" width="246" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΑΓΓΕΛΙΔΗΣ</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6myY0Zsk9Mg0cppW8XxO2U-vTujFjy27-inMaVLVvZa0HJOE95yYb6R_TNpdk-8kZRbQzc7KzGjaaUG-vS6M_r9bzWEm2jJyaEwxaXvvcuRYyPKn3HX8bi2RG_c2LuKcsu79CR5LZZ0qLJ23JG6P6-pVP_dDkxFALyL_iBYem6o3bfYCwI7Ziriw/s980/666-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="980" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6myY0Zsk9Mg0cppW8XxO2U-vTujFjy27-inMaVLVvZa0HJOE95yYb6R_TNpdk-8kZRbQzc7KzGjaaUG-vS6M_r9bzWEm2jJyaEwxaXvvcuRYyPKn3HX8bi2RG_c2LuKcsu79CR5LZZ0qLJ23JG6P6-pVP_dDkxFALyL_iBYem6o3bfYCwI7Ziriw/w400-h213/666-2.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Περιστατικά φρίκης από την εφαρμογή εγκληματικών
αντιπροσφυγικών πολιτικών με την ανοχή, αν όχι με τη συγκάλυψη, της Ευρωπαϊκής
Επιτροπής δημοσιοποιεί σήμερα η Ευρωομάδα της Αριστεράς ● Ταυτόχρονη παρουσίαση
στην «Εφ.Συν.» για την Ελλάδα και σε άλλα ευρωπαϊκά μέσα ενημέρωσης ► Η βία, τα
βασανιστήρια και ο εξευτελισμός όχι μόνο αυξάνονται εκθετικά αλλά επίσης
κανονικοποιούνται ● Απειλές και επιθέσεις από κρατικές αρχές προς οργανώσεις
που δραστηριοποιούνται στα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα και στην παροχή ανθρωπιστικής
βοήθειας προς τους πρόσφυγες ● Η αποχώρηση διεθνών οργανισμών από τις περιοχές
των συνόρων εξαιτίας της πανδημίας του κορονοϊού το 2020 οδήγησε στην
αποθράσυνση των κρατικών μηχανισμών καταστολής, που άρχισαν να δρουν
ανεξέλεγκτα.</span></p><div class="article__summary" style="border-top: 1px solid var(--grey); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 3rem; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Ενα σκοτεινό πανόραμα ανατριχιαστικών πράξεων βίας και
στυγνών παραβιάσεων ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων από κρατικές αρχές στα σύνορα της
Ε.Ε. δημοσιοποιεί σήμερα η Ευρωομάδα της Αριστεράς, αναδεικνύοντας τον ολισθηρό
κατήφορο που ακολουθούν τα τελευταία χρόνια τα ευρωπαϊκά κράτη στη λειτουργία
του κράτους δικαίου και την εφαρμογή εγκληματικών αντιπροσφυγικών πολιτικών με
την ανοχή, αν όχι με τη συγκάλυψη, της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής. Η «Μαύρη Βίβλος»
δημοσιοποιείται ταυτόχρονα σε πολλά διεθνή ΜΜΕ, μεταξύ των οποίων The
Guardian, Le Monde, Balkan Insight, N1, La Repubblica.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">3.173</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> μαύρες σελίδες με </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">1.635</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> αναλυτικές
μαρτυρίες για επιχειρήσεις</span></span></b><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> επαναπροώθησης </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">24.990</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> ανθρώπων
από </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">15</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> κράτη τα τελευταία </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">6</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> χρόνια</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: red;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η «Μαύρη Βίβλος των Επαναπροωθήσεων», καρπός μεθοδικής
δουλειάς περισσότερων από 15 οργανώσεων, μελών και συνεργατών του Border
Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN - Δίκτυο Επιτήρησης της Συνοριακής Βίας), για
λογαριασμό της Ευρωομάδας της Αριστεράς που χρηματοδότησε την έκδοση,
αποτελείται από τέσσερις ογκώδεις τόμους, συνολικής έκτασης 3.173 σελίδων.
Περιλαμβάνει 1.635 αναλυτικές μαρτυρίες για επιχειρήσεις επαναπροώθησης 24.990
ανθρώπων από 15 κράτη (Αλβανία, Αυστρία, Βόρεια Μακεδονία, Βοσνία, Βουλγαρία,
Ιταλία, Ελλάδα, Κόσοβο, Κροατία, Μαυροβούνιο, Ουγγαρία, Πολωνία, Ρουμανία,
Σερβία, Σλοβενία) τα τελευταία έξι χρόνια. Πρόκειται για επαυξημένη και
επικαιροποιημένη έκδοση της δίτομης «Μαύρης Βίβλου των Επαναπροωθήσεων» που
παρουσιάστηκε τον Δεκέμβρη του 2020, σχεδόν διπλάσια σε όγκο και στοιχεία
σήμερα.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Στη φετινή έκδοση οι μαρτυρίες και ο αριθμός των
επαναπροωθημένων αυξάνονται χρονιά με τη χρονιά, ξεκινώντας από 116 μαρτυρίες
και 1.248 θύματα το 2017 και σημειώνοντας απότομη άνοδο το 2021 με 440
μαρτυρίες και 11.001 θύματα. Ο κατάλογος αποτελεί μόνο την κορυφή του παγόβουνου
και είναι κάθε άλλο παρά εξαντλητικός.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Οι άνθρωποι αυτοί στην πλειονότητά τους ζήτησαν άσυλο
στην Ευρώπη ή θέλησαν να ζητήσουν, αλλά στερήθηκαν το δικαίωμα να υποβάλουν
επίσημο αίτημα ή να εξεταστεί το αίτημά τους με τον πιο βίαιο τρόπο. Ο κατάλογος
των μαρτυριών για την κρατική βία και αυθαιρεσία περιλαμβάνει στις περισσότερες
περιπτώσεις ξυλοκόπημα ή γροθιές και κλοτσιές, κλοπή των προσωπικών
αντικειμένων τους από αστυνομικούς και λιμενικούς, καταστροφή εγγράφων και
προσωπικών αντικειμένων και σε αρκετές περιπτώσεις απειλή με όπλο, ενώ δεν
λείπουν πρακτικές που παραπέμπουν σε βασανιστήρια, όπως η βύθιση σε νερό.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background: black;"><span style="color: red;">Παραβιάσεις</span></span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">«Ο απόλυτος αριθμός των περιστατικών φρίκης δεν αφήνει
καμιά αμφιβολία για τη συστηματική φύση των επαναπροωθήσεων στα ευρωπαϊκά
σύνορα. Δεν πρόκειται για μεμονωμένα περιστατικά. […] Η βία, τα βασανιστήρια
και ο εξευτελισμός όχι μόνο αυξάνονται εκθετικά αλλά επίσης κανονικοποιούνται.
Ενώ η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή αναζητά μια συμφωνία για το Σύμφωνο για τη
Μετανάστευση και το Ασυλο με κάθε κόστος, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του να κάνει ότι
δεν βλέπει τις παραβιάσεις δικαιωμάτων, αποτυγχάνει να εκπληρώσει το καθήκον
της ως φύλακα των συνθηκών. Τα συσσωρευόμενα στοιχεία δείχνουν ξεκάθαρα ότι
υπάρχει η νομική βάση για την Επιτροπή να ξεκινήσει διαδικασία επί παραβάσει»,
αναφέρει σε ανακοίνωσή της η Ευρωομάδα της Αριστεράς.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Οι συντάκτριες της έκθεσης σημειώνουν ότι η αποχώρηση
διεθνών οργανισμών από τις περιοχές των συνόρων εξαιτίας της πανδημίας του
κορονοϊού το 2020 οδήγησε στην αποθράσυνση των κρατικών μηχανισμών καταστολής,
που άρχισαν να δρουν ανεξέλεγκτα. «Γνωρίζοντας αυτή την έλλειψη αυτοπτών
μαρτύρων, οι συνοροφύλακες […] άρχισαν να εφαρμόζουν φρικιαστικές “μεθόδους
αποτροπής”: αυτές περιλαμβάνουν ακραία και παρατεταμένα χτυπήματα, ξύρισμα κεφαλής,
αναγκαστικό γδύσιμο, σεξουαλικές επιθέσεις, επιθέσεις σκύλων, μη συναινετικές
ιατρικές αγωγές και επιθέσεις με όπλα που προκαλούν ηλεκτροσόκ», αναφέρουν.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background: black;"><span style="color: red;">Κρατικές επιθέσεις</span></span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Παράλληλα με την αύξηση βίαιων μεθόδων που ισοδυναμούν
με βασανιστήρια, στις οποίες, σύμφωνα με την έκθεση, πρωταγωνιστούν η Ελλάδα
και η Κροατία, το BVNM καταγράφει απειλές και επιθέσεις από κρατικές αρχές προς
οργανώσεις που δραστηριοποιούνται στα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα και στην παροχή
ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας προς τους πρόσφυγες. Η Ελλάδα, η Τουρκία και η Κροατία
αναφέρονται ως οι χώρες που εφάρμοσαν τις πιο σκληρές επιθέσεις σε οργανώσεις
που κατέφυγαν εκ μέρους των προσφύγων στο Ευρωπαϊκό Δικαστήριο για τα
Δικαιώματα του Ανθρώπου, ζητώντας ασφαλιστικά μέτρα για πρόσφυγες που κινδύνευαν
σε περιοχές των συνόρων, όπως έγινε με δεκάδες περιπτώσεις προσφύγων που
παρέμειναν εγκλωβισμένοι και αβοήθητοι σε νησίδες του Εβρου την άνοιξη και το
καλοκαίρι του 2022.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">H έκθεση αναφέρεται σε επιθέσεις «όχι μόνο εναντίον
των ακτιβιστών μας αλλά επίσης και συγγενών τους, που ανάγκασαν μέλη και
συνεργάτες του BVNM να αναστείλουν τη λειτουργία τους, όπως συνέβη με την
οργάνωση Josoor, και οδήγησαν πολλούς ανθρώπους του προσωπικού μας σε
θέσεις-κλειδιά να αποχωρήσουν από τη χώρα στην οποία κατοικούσαν». Οι πρακτικές
αυτές εμπόδισαν το έργο της καταγραφής και αναφοράς περιστατικών και ανάγκασαν
ορισμένα από τα πιο εκτεθειμένα μέλη του δικτύου να αποσυρθούν από το
προσκήνιο.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Είναι χαρακτηριστικό ότι τέσσερις από τις οργανώσεις
του Δικτύου που δραστηριοποιούνται στην Ελλάδα έχουν δεχτεί από την αστυνομία
κατηγορίες αμφιλεγόμενες ή και εμφανώς ανυπόστατες για διευκόλυνση εισόδου
μεταναστών και κατηγορίες που σχετίζονται με την εθνική ασφάλεια. Αυτές
παραμένουν στο συρτάρι των εισαγγελικών αρχών χωρίς να έχει ασκηθεί δίωξη,
οδηγώντας ωστόσο τις οργανώσεις σε ομηρία χρόνων. Μία από τις οργανώσεις που
στοχοποιήθηκαν από τις ελληνικές αρχές, η Josoor, ανακοίνωσε πριν από μερικούς
μήνες ότι κλείνει, ενώ άλλες οργανώσεις που συνεργάστηκαν στην εκπόνηση της
«Μαύρης Βίβλου» δεν αναφέρονται ονομαστικά για τον φόβο εκδικητικών ενεργειών
εκ μέρους των κρατικών αρχών.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">«Είναι ακριβώς αυτές οι προσπάθειες να μας κάνουν να
σιωπήσουμε που δυναμώνουν τη θέλησή μας να μιλήσουμε δυνατότερα. Γι’ αυτόν τον
λόγο νιώθουμε υπερήφανοι που παρουσιάζουμε τη νέα, επαυξημένη έκδοση της
“Μαύρης Βίβλου” στο Ευρωκοινοβούλιο, έναν θεσμό που έχει τη δύναμη να πιέσει
στην κατεύθυνση της πραγματικής αλλαγής», σημειώνει η Μιλένα Ζάγιοβιτς,
υπεύθυνη συνηγορίας του Δικτύου και μία από τις συντάκτριες της έκθεσης.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR0oCOzq2K5bFvpvAvaCdwD0PYtkJ2l2Z8FAOtyTUwD-qMlKZse6DrEHMBQXjCayQDw-IZG5foO2DPjt_tA4PKAMU1WAXGKT1k3435fl4_DJF51tbggZZJ7Hld_QmsJok3WhqbDfP7O2Ph-FnDVFjs6hQkuwhk8ob_oPhjJhQxwr4eHo_ki1qvHkhE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR0oCOzq2K5bFvpvAvaCdwD0PYtkJ2l2Z8FAOtyTUwD-qMlKZse6DrEHMBQXjCayQDw-IZG5foO2DPjt_tA4PKAMU1WAXGKT1k3435fl4_DJF51tbggZZJ7Hld_QmsJok3WhqbDfP7O2Ph-FnDVFjs6hQkuwhk8ob_oPhjJhQxwr4eHo_ki1qvHkhE=w400-h213" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background: black;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background: black;"><span style="color: red;">Η Ελλάδα πρωτοστατεί</span></span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η Ελλάδα έχει την τιμητική της στον κατάλογο κρατικής
φρίκης της «Μαύρης Βίβλου», με μαρτυρίες επαναπροώθησης που εκτείνονται σε
περίπου 500 σελίδες. Οι 168 μαρτυρίες αφορούν επαναπροωθήσεις που έγιναν τα
τελευταία δύο χρόνια (76 το 2021 και 92 το 2022) και περιλαμβάνουν 11.183
θύματα (6.521 το 2021 και 4.662 το 2022).</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">«Τους έκαψαν επίσης τα σακίδια, τα τηλέφωνά τους, τα
λεφτά, τα πάντα», αναφέρει χαρακτηριστικά 26χρονος Αφγανός, θύμα επαναπροώθησης
συνολικά 12 ανθρώπων από το Σουφλί του Εβρου στις 6 Οκτωβρίου 2020 με δράστες
5-7 αστυνομικούς και άλλους δύο ένστολους, πιθανόν στρατιωτικούς. «Επρεπε να
πιουν νερό από τις τουαλέτες του κρατητηρίου» αναφέρει γυναίκα πρόσφυγας που
κρατήθηκε για δύο μερόνυχτα μαζί με περίπου 50 άτομα, πριν επαναπροωθηθούν
βίαια την παραμονή του Δεκαπενταύγουστου του 2020. «Με χειροπέδες στα χέρια,
μας πέταξαν στα νερά του Εβρου», αναφέρει πρόσφυγας που είχε ζητήσει άσυλο στην
Αθήνα και ταξίδεψε στην Αλεξανδρούπολη όσο περίμενε να εξεταστεί, από όπου
επαναπροωθήθηκε βίαια μαζί με άλλους 80-90 πρόσφυγες στις 21 Ιουνίου 2020.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Αλλες μαρτυρίες αφορούν βίαιες επαναπροωθήσεις
ανθρώπων που είχαν αναγνωριστεί πρόσφυγες στη Γερμανία, προσφύγων μέσα από
κρατικές δομές φιλοξενίας και από περιοχές απομακρυσμένες από τα ελληνοτουρκικά
σύνορα, όπως η Θεσσαλονίκη και η Ηγουμενίτσα.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η έκθεση σημειώνει ότι παραμένει άγνωστος ο συνολικός
αριθμός των νεκρών στη θάλασσα ως αποτέλεσμα των επαναπροωθήσεων. Αναφέρει τον
θάνατο τριών ανθρώπων από πνιγμό κατά τη διάρκεια επαναπροώθησης στις 15
Σεπτεμβρίου 2021, που τους έριξε στη θάλασσα το Ελληνικό Λιμενικό. Καταγράφει
επίσης 38 επιβεβαιωμένους θανάτους και 35-61 αγνοούμενους από οκτώ ναυάγια σε
ελληνικά ύδατα το 2021, όπως και τα στοιχεία της Υπατης Αρμοστείας για 25
νεκρούς και αγνοούμενους στη θαλάσσια διαδρομή της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου το
πρώτο μισό του 2022. Το δεύτερο μισό του έτους σημαδεύτηκε εξίσου από ναυάγια
και νεκρούς, ιδίως τον Σεπτέμβριο και τον Οκτώβριο όπου σημειώθηκαν τουλάχιστον
8 ναυάγια, 35 επιβεβαιωμένοι νεκροί από πνιγμό και ανυπολόγιστος αριθμός
αγνοούμενων.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">«Ωστόσο, οι πρακτικές δυσκολίες να αποκτηθούν δεδομένα
υποδεικνύουν ότι ο αριθμός θα μπορούσε να είναι πολύ μεγαλύτερος», σημειώνει η
έκθεση. Και υπογραμμίζει ότι θα μπορούσε να έχουν αποφευχθεί οι απώλειες ζωών,
αν η ελληνική κυβέρνηση δεν είχε απαγορεύσει τις επιχειρήσεις έρευνας και
διάσωσης σε οργανώσεις που δρουν σε όλες τις περιοχές επιχειρησιακής δράσης του
Λιμενικού.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDNXloH958rcM94MSLAAlDfo6nXIfzUe9U6Y_cjoBxwKfEbdRXXp52T1LAHQYXpjGl1TzYufvGeICKzlDxWLnxd02opoUSZM6Es9UQuM6Onn22sIFPpbBtdmbFcr6acGSZnY_-pDMrY2p2P19_ceIthXZZkvKE5lqTIJl1wi2HbGsJj6LTf7rNk9r4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDNXloH958rcM94MSLAAlDfo6nXIfzUe9U6Y_cjoBxwKfEbdRXXp52T1LAHQYXpjGl1TzYufvGeICKzlDxWLnxd02opoUSZM6Es9UQuM6Onn22sIFPpbBtdmbFcr6acGSZnY_-pDMrY2p2P19_ceIthXZZkvKE5lqTIJl1wi2HbGsJj6LTf7rNk9r4=w400-h360" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background: black;"><span style="color: red;">Κορνίλια Ερνστ*<br />
Η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή συνεχίζει να αδρανεί</span></span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">«Η νέα έκδοση της “Μαύρης Βίβλου” δείχνει ξεκάθαρα τη
βία που εξακολουθούν να υφίστανται καθημερινά οι γυναίκες, οι άνδρες και τα
παιδιά που μετακινούνται στα εξωτερικά και εσωτερικά σύνορα της Ε.Ε. Η
Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή εξακολουθεί να αδρανεί, χωρίς να κινεί διαδικασίες επί
παραβάσει κατά των κρατών-μελών που επαναπροωθούν ανθρώπους και τους αρνούνται
το δικαίωμα στο άσυλο.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η Frontex εξακολουθεί να επιχειρεί στην Ελλάδα, αν και
δεν αποτελεί μυστικό η συμμετοχή της σε παραβιάσεις των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων
στη χώρα. [...] Αυτή η νέα έκδοση στοχεύει να καταστήσει την Ε.Ε. και τις
κυβερνήσεις υπόλογες για τα βασανιστήρια, την απάνθρωπη και εξευτελιστική
μεταχείριση και τις παραβιάσεις του δικαιώματος στη ζωή που αντιμετωπίζουν
καθημερινά οι άνθρωποι που αναζητούν ασφάλεια στην Ευρώπη. Ως μέλη του
Ευρωκοινοβουλίου οφείλουμε να ευχαριστήσουμε τους ακτιβιστές και τις οργανώσεις
που καταγράφουν τη βία στα σύνορα, που συλλέγουν μαρτυρίες και στοιχεία για τα
σημεία όπου συμβαίνει η βία, με μεγάλο κίνδυνο να ποινικοποιηθούν από τις
ευρωπαϊκές κυβερνήσεις. Χωρίς αυτούς δεν θα υπήρχε αυτό το βιβλίο. Πολλοί έχουν
υποστεί επιθέσεις επειδή ύψωσαν τη φωνή τους κατά της βίας και των επαναπροωθήσεων
που ασκούν οι δυνάμεις ασφαλείας και θα θέλαμε να τους εκφράσουμε την ισχυρή
υποστήριξή μας».</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><i><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">*Ευρωβουλευτής του γερμανικού κόμματος της Αριστεράς Die Linke</span></i><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: black;"> Αρβανίτης*</span><br /><span style="background-color: black;">
Παγίδες θανάτου τα εξωτερικά σύνορα</span></span></span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η 2η έκδοση της «Μαύρης Βίβλου» αναδεικνύει τον
«ελέφαντα στο δωμάτιο» της Ε.Ε. Πλήθος καταγγελιών αποκαλύπτει το σοβαρό
πρόβλημα διαχείρισης των συνόρων, εξωτερικών και μεταξύ κρατών-μελών. Η
ανυπαρξία νόμιμων οδών για πρόσφυγες/μετανάστες, συνέπεια της ανομολόγητης
υιοθέτησης του δόγματος «Ευρώπη-φρούριο», μετατρέπει τα εξωτερικά σύνορα σε
παγίδες θανάτου και τα κράτη πρώτης υποδοχής σε οιονεί φυλακές-αποθήκες προσφύγων/μεταναστών.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η απουσία πειστικών απαντήσεων σε βαρύτατες
καταγγελίες ή η επιβεβαίωσή τους απλώνουν βαριά σκιά στην Ευρώπη των αξιών, των
θεμελιωδών δικαιωμάτων και του ανθρωπισμού, την Ευρώπη που ομνύει στο Διεθνές
Δίκαιο.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Επιλεκτικές ευαισθησίες με κριτήριο το «πολιτικό»
χρώμα μιας κυβέρνησης και το πόσο «φιλική» είναι στην ηγεσία της Ε.Ε., ανοχή σε
κάποιους και αυστηρότητα σε άλλους, δεν είναι μια πραγματικότητα αποδεκτή.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: black; color: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Η συμπερίληψη στοιχείων για τη γενικότερη κατάσταση
του κράτους δικαίου στη χώρα μας, στοιχείων κάθε άλλο παρά κολακευτικών, δίνει
την πραγματική διάσταση του προβλήματος: τυχόν παράνομες πρακτικές στα σύνορα
δεν είναι μόνο ζήτημα ηθικό, αλλά αγγίζουν τον πυρήνα και τραυματίζουν βάναυσα
το κράτος δικαίου.Κι αυτό καμιά κυβέρνηση και καμία ευρωπαϊκή ηγεσία δεν μπορεί
να το ανέχεται, να το κανονικοποιεί, να το αποδέχεται σιωπηρά.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: white; font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">*Ευρωβουλευτής ΣΥΡΙΖΑ-Π.Σ.</span></i></span></p></div><div><div class="article__body js-resizable" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.6rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;" title="Κείμενο (20)"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>8/12/2022</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;" title="Κείμενο (20)"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 107.25pt;"><b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5623838554141645927/8849613049477520806?hl=el"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial;">https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikaiomata/370123_odyni-kai-orgi-xefyllizontas-ti-nea-mayri-biblo-ton-epanaproothiseo</span></span></a></b></p></div></div>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-62331628436337068392023-02-28T12:17:00.010-08:002023-02-28T12:17:54.056-08:00ΤΑ ΣΥΝΟΡΑ ΤΗΣ (ΑΠ)ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΑΣ <p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNK841oywy1Cv3o3sLo5W-k7cmQm1KPQcjL4Wj_hYedAk01PvCHEHBo_PGFqdByNYo8v43uN3BtsRMU2Se1AHbNn6tbOxjKFgi7fP-8dpS3T_CMGnsIDvfI1FLWpW9M1IOxKbemc-NWRFPTn_tqT2Y4YdiIgvQ6iCIJhWN9ZRjlIOr_pqDpsBSY7C/s538/%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%20%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%88%CE%B7%CF%82%20(4).png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="93" data-original-width="538" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNK841oywy1Cv3o3sLo5W-k7cmQm1KPQcjL4Wj_hYedAk01PvCHEHBo_PGFqdByNYo8v43uN3BtsRMU2Se1AHbNn6tbOxjKFgi7fP-8dpS3T_CMGnsIDvfI1FLWpW9M1IOxKbemc-NWRFPTn_tqT2Y4YdiIgvQ6iCIJhWN9ZRjlIOr_pqDpsBSY7C/w262-h45/%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%20%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%88%CE%B7%CF%82%20(4).png" width="262" /></a><br /><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwJk5H3HaoA9yGDNVN7ukWr2TYXEl0Ku_n48kE_m83SejTcryMwqXdXMNCR50P2mV2xDcyxCrkH97JEy496AfinCgAj0x-3MLSA5QfrZTUrqxLqcuMy9ZhSsp1-BrqiqswFz36OWdQx_2D2QeMzw4qr7nyZU-N--xmV8V2SZ5v5v_PnzARG4hUxTnf" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="980" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwJk5H3HaoA9yGDNVN7ukWr2TYXEl0Ku_n48kE_m83SejTcryMwqXdXMNCR50P2mV2xDcyxCrkH97JEy496AfinCgAj0x-3MLSA5QfrZTUrqxLqcuMy9ZhSsp1-BrqiqswFz36OWdQx_2D2QeMzw4qr7nyZU-N--xmV8V2SZ5v5v_PnzARG4hUxTnf" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Η τραγωδία της Ευρώπης των ανθρωπιστικών αξιών, των δικαιωμάτων και των βαρύγδουπων διακηρύξεων γράφεται στις πάνω από 3.000 σελίδες του συγκλονιστικού ντοκουμέντου που συντάχθηκε από τις οργανώσεις του Δικτύου Επιτήρησης της Συνοριακής Βίας και δίνεται σήμερα στη δημοσιότητα στις Βρυξέλλες, από την ευρωπαϊκή ομάδα της Αριστεράς.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">«Μαύρη Βίβλος των επαναπροωθήσεων» είναι ο τίτλος του ντοκουμέντου που παρουσιάζει η «Εφ.Συν.» και καταγράφει την οδύσσεια σχεδόν 25.000 προσφύγων και μεταναστών που τα τελευταία χρόνια γνώρισαν το πιο αποκρουστικό πρόσωπο της Ευρώπης στη βία των επαναπροωθήσεων, των συλλήψεων, του εξευτελισμού, των διώξεων και των βασανιστηρίων που υπέστησαν στα λεγόμενα εξωτερικά σύνορα της Ε.Ε.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Η Ελλάδα είναι ανάμεσα στα 15 κράτη-μέλη της Ε.Ε. που αναδεικνύονται θλιβεροί πρωταγωνιστές στην καταστρατήγηση του διεθνούς και του ευρωπαϊκού δικαίου στα σύνορα της Ένωσης με τρίτες χώρες. Εκεί όπου συνθλίβονται οι ελπίδες και οι αυταπάτες των ανυποψίαστων προσφύγων και μεταναστών, ότι περνώντας την «κόκκινη» γραμμή, σε θάλασσα ή στεριά, περνούν σε μια φιλόξενη αγκαλιά ελευθερίας και ανθρωπιάς.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Όμως, όλο και πιο συχνά τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια, τα ευρωπαϊκά σύνορα της ελπίδας αποδεικνύονται σύνορα απανθρωπιάς, οδύνης και θανάτου. Η συνενοχή των κρατικών αρχών στις επιχειρήσεις επαναπροώθησης των μεταναστών, που αποτελεί κραυγαλέα παραβίαση του διεθνούς δικαίου, έχει τεκμηριωθεί με χιλιάδες μαρτυρίες, εκατοντάδες δικαστικές προσφυγές. Αλλά και με την ασφυκτική επιτήρηση της Frontex, της ευρωπαϊκής υπηρεσίας των συνόρων, από το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο για τη συνέργειά της σε παράνομες επαναπροωθήσεις.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Η «Μαύρη Βίβλος» των επαναπροωθήσεων προσφύγων και μεταναστών είναι μια βαθιά και βάναυση προσβολή των αξιών που διακηρύσσει η Ε.Ε. Και από την άποψη αυτή, το αίτημα που προβάλλουν οι ευρωβουλευτές της Αριστεράς να κινηθεί διαδικασία επί παραβάσει του δικαίου της Ε.Ε. εις βάρος των κρατών που πρωτοστατούν σε αυτή την παράνομη πρακτική είναι απόλυτα δίκαιο. Όσο κι αν προσβάλλει τα τάχα πατριωτικά αισθήματα κάποιων.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Στη χώρα που οφείλει τη σύγχρονη υπόστασή της στην αιματηρή προσφυγιά του 1922, έναν αιώνα πίσω, στην Ελλάδα των ξεριζωμένων Ποντίων, Μικρασιατών, Αρμενίων και των επόμενων προσφυγικών και μεταναστευτικών κυμάτων, οι υστερικές κραυγές περί «λαθρομεταναστών» μόνο και μόνο για να συσπειρωθούν εκλογικά τα «ορφανά» του νεοναζισμού και της Χρυσής Αυγής, μόνο ως ιστορική ύβρις ακούγεται.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>8/12/2022</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.efsyn.gr/politiki/i-apopsi-tis-efsyn/370117_ta-synora-tis-apanthropias"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">https://www.efsyn.gr/politiki/i-apopsi-tis-efsyn/370117_ta-synora-tis-apanthropias</span></a></b></span></p>Το bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140023465212712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623838554141645927.post-77656438550015157502023-02-28T11:59:00.003-08:002023-02-28T12:18:35.952-08:00[EN] BLACK BOOK OF PUSHBACKS 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWwTgaXxfXjoXqNCBQt0nwEq_O-GloAL4cFOyriCPY0Gf_WtFXQ4YMI0tWXqxieiWyy4jqkplC6DEF_GuQ1F8oGa5NKwGHacOwUIfj8J26D9gidRDHwZl9vYC4zM4VrxB47o3TM3_iEiA1GV6syBtrYy3RVQDZBCe2D9JJQ-B4bHvGu98qryFsh25M" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1000" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWwTgaXxfXjoXqNCBQt0nwEq_O-GloAL4cFOyriCPY0Gf_WtFXQ4YMI0tWXqxieiWyy4jqkplC6DEF_GuQ1F8oGa5NKwGHacOwUIfj8J26D9gidRDHwZl9vYC4zM4VrxB47o3TM3_iEiA1GV6syBtrYy3RVQDZBCe2D9JJQ-B4bHvGu98qryFsh25M=w233-h132" width="233" /></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0J901C9H0rzVxJoMYeBXXTCZLVWVheQRGmT1X0Upt6Pye1GcN5aANMayPAWIXkHQ1rgE5Aa7DG-yniWXNbsuTOK0YWHtJLRItsbHLmNO-4etf4Rr3FNT1Quh5LzPReYi8SC_uR6kAeh6fyXjRvMpHGYCjoTA-k7DA-fIrHGiDdD0S-I_0WLuf7u9V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1400" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0J901C9H0rzVxJoMYeBXXTCZLVWVheQRGmT1X0Upt6Pye1GcN5aANMayPAWIXkHQ1rgE5Aa7DG-yniWXNbsuTOK0YWHtJLRItsbHLmNO-4etf4Rr3FNT1Quh5LzPReYi8SC_uR6kAeh6fyXjRvMpHGYCjoTA-k7DA-fIrHGiDdD0S-I_0WLuf7u9V" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Over 3,000 pages with testimonies impacting more than 25,000 people on the move.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">All of them experienced violence at EU borders and were illegally pushed back. These are not sporadic incidents caused by a “few bad apples”: this is a “rotten orchard” where violence is being normalised.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">People being beaten, abused and tortured, stories of human rights violations at the EU’s external borders.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">Such brutality must end.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(0, 0, 0); border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">We demand immediate action from the European Commission, sign our campaign: </span><a href="https://act.left.eu/page/118754/petition/1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: transform 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;"><span style="color: red;">https://act.left.eu/stoppushbacks</span></a></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:cb5a9aaa-ee62-3286-a505-0d9122b69b8f" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: transform 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: arial;">Click here to read the full publication</span></a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="b-shadowFile--right" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; align-items: center; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 1 1 30%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; justify-content: space-between; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><p></p><div class="b-shadowFile--left" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 60%; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2;"><h3 class="b-shadowFile__title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="600" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQXTIWtrnoEOQgJdLHgQXMJR0CCevFjclQu7GL-xV0yMQn_gKO64DbUlDLhFI4RELQNBvcyggaQcih-qU2nFQjgcF7NxlRpbIFe4Tnw_Tujtp9bedCCwgk3_RgkS6ac4ZZPGz_hJu5f7vl_GfuiOyrP9BvRvy0xUCa12Q_HhAq_H1h5pJzjMxN94I/w400-h234/GREECE.png" width="400" /></span></a></p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">As Greece continues systematic violations, of EU and international law the Union continues to supply declarations of support and billion Euro funding and fails to acknowledge and act on mounting evidence. Following the scandals of the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex),the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA) is accused of serious misconduct and neglect of human rights obligations. Türkiye is increasingly unsafe for refugees but remains ‘safe’ for asylum seekers in Greece.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">There is no shortage of </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-two-deadly-shipwrecks-in-the-aegean-continued-pushbacks-and-non-response-by-authorities-ngos-urge-a-repeal-safe-third-country-list/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">documentation</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of systematic </span><a href="https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1596447783036362755" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">non-response</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to alerts of people in distress often in spite of interim measures from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and pushbacks </span><a href="https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1596141974641577985" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">by land</span></a><span style="color: white;"> and sea by Greek authorities in violation of EU and international law. Evidence of pushbacks and calls for EU action including from </span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-systematic-pushbacks-continue-by-sea-and-land-as-meps-demand-eu-action-deaths-up-proportionate-to-arrivals-number-of-people-in-reception-system-reduced-by-half-mitarachi-still-not/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">MEPs</span></a>, </span><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greece-and-croatia-the-shadow-army-that-beats-up-refugees-at-the-eu-border-a-a4409e54-2986-4f9d-934f-02efcebd89a7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">investigative journalists</span></a>, </span><a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/council-of-europe-s-anti-torture-committee-calls-on-greece-to-reform-its-immigration-detention-system-and-stop-pushbacks" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">human rights institutions</span></a> </span><span style="color: white;">and </span><a href="https://alarmphone.org/en/2022/09/07/a-dilemma-between-unbelievable-violence-and-death/?post_type_release_type=post" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">NGOs</span></a><span style="color: white;"> have been mounting for years and the Aegean Boat Report alone has compiled evidence from refugees and volunteers </span><a href="https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/1CiKR1_R7-1UbMHKhzZe_Ji_cvqF7xlfH/page/A5Q0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">documenting</span></a><span style="color: white;"> the pushback of 48,983 people from Greek islands into Turkish waters between 1 January 2017 to 28 November 2022. Solomon recently ran </span><a href="https://wearesolomon.com/mag/on-the-move/exclusive-un-letter-documents-greek-pushback-of-turkish-asylum-seekers/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">a feature</span></a><span style="color: white;"> on “Seven Turkish ex-soldiers and a teacher, convicted this year in their native Turkey over alleged links to the man accused of masterminding a failed 2016 coup” reportedly, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) urged Greek authorities “to provide protection, but instead the men were pushed back to sea and into the arms of the Turkish police”. German media outlet Frankfurter Rundschau recently published </span><a href="https://www.fr.de/politik/tod-an-der-eu-aussengrenze-hassans-albtraum-91934425.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">a report</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of the death of the Syrian national, Akram Abdulkadir in July, after being maltreated by Greek militias leaving his body in the Evros region where deaths of people on the move </span><a href="https://www.fr.de/meinung/kommentare/eu-fluechtlingspolitik-europas-schande-91934454.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">has become</span></a><span style="color: white;"> “all too commonplace”.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">The Greek government has continued to </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-government-states-150000-people-have-been-averted-but-denies-pushbacks-safe-third-country-inadmissibility-decisions-continue-as-hate-crimes-are-on-the-ris/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">deflect and deny</span></a><span style="color: white;"> such evidence often referring to Turkish instrumentalisation of migration or finding alternative phrasing such as blocking or averting “illegal” entry. </span><a href="https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/67715b2c-ec81-4f0c-ad6a-476a34d732bd/12143688.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to the Hellenic Police, more than 230,000 people were “prevented” from entering Greece from January to October this year but as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MinosMouz/status/1597212212007170048?s=20&t=aQKeCqSVkw-AEAXP6SuZ_w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">pointed out</span></a><span style="color: white;"> by Minos Mouzourakis from Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) leaving NGO’s as well as the European Commission “none the wiser on how these stats are counted”. In August this year, </span><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-001972-ASW_EN.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">the Commission was</span></a><span style="color: white;">: “deeply concerned about all reports and allegations of pushbacks and mistreatment, and underlined that: ”Any act of violence or pushback is illegal and must be investigated by the national authorities responsible to establish the facts and take the necessary follow-up actions”. However, the willingness to confront violations in Greece has been modest at EU level and both </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-calls-for-safe-and-legal-pathways-reiterated-as-three-more-bodies-are-recovered-in-the-aegean-as-government-remains-defiant-in-the-face-of-mounting-evidence-of-violations-eu-top-official-decl/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">solidarity declarations</span></a><span style="color: white;"> from top officials and significant financial support remain the order of the day. Following an extraordinary meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) on 25 November, Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi </span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="https://twitter.com/nmitarakis/status/1595787463884263427" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">thanked</span></a> </span><span style="color: white;">Vice-President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas for providing </span><a href="https://www.pagenews.gr/2022/11/26/english-edition/greece-will-allocate-1-9-billion-euros-for-migrants/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">1.9 billion euros</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to Greece for the management of migration.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">The </span><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/why-der-spiegel-is-publishing-the-eu-investigative-report-on-pushbacks-a-5218398a-5c1e-414e-a477-b26515353fce" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">publishing</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of a leaked report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on Frontex by Spiegel left </span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=Olaf+Report+Greece+no+evidence+pushbacks&FORM=HDRSC1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">NGOs</span></a><span style="color: white;"> and </span><a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/all/short_news/brussels-gives-mixed-signals-on-frontex-greek-scandal/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">media</span></a><span style="color: white;"> with a confirmation of Greek violations. “Even though it wasn’t the main focus of the investigation, the report relentlessly exposes how Greek border guards in the Aegean Sea abandon refugees at sea on inflatable life rafts to prevent them from exercising their right to apply for asylum”, Spiegel wrote at the time. However, an OLAF spokesperson </span><a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1196899/eu-says-olaf-report-does-not-concern-greece/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">recently rejected</span></a><span style="color: white;"> that the report can be used as evidence against Greece as it “examined only charges related to Frontex’s internal procedures and regulations during the execution of its officials’ duties”. Reportedly, diplomatic sources in Brussels refer to “strong displeasure within OLAF over the leaking of the report and the attempt to politicize it by distorting its contents and conclusions”. The sources do not clarify how pointing out violations of EU and international law constitutes politicizing or distorting the investigation’s findings.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/fairtrials/status/1597887171566141440" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Scrutiny</span></a><span style="color: white;"> including by OLAF was part of </span><a href="http://www.forintegration.eu/pl/frontex-fabrice-leggeri-resigns-as-a-consequence-of-olaf-investigation-and-journalistic-consortium-report" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">the pressure</span></a><span style="color: white;"> on Frontex culminating in the resignation of former executive director, Fabrice Leggeri in April. The agency, currently </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EP_Justice/status/1597852913803882496" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">in the process</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of finding a replacement for Leggeri, has </span><a href="https://migration.gov.gr/en/mitarachi-frontex-meeting-agreement-on-cooperation-in-voluntary-returns-of-irregular-migrants/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #93c47d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">reached an</span></a><span style="color: white;"> agreement with the Greek government “on a series of activities which are expected to bring better results in the process of returning irregular migrants to their countries of origin”. Given the recent history of Frontex cooperation with Greece, ECRE </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ecre/status/1597524440455458818" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">remains sceptical</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of such an agreement. Meanwhile, following claims of serious </span><a href="https://www.msn.com/nl-nl/nieuws/buitenland/europees-asielagentschap-onder-loep-van-eu-fraudedienst/ar-AA14EzXz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #93c47d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">mismanagement</a><span style="color: #93c47d;">, </span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3cea0214-0260-44e0-ada2-ae942cbb4782" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">misconduct</span></a><span style="color: white;"> and neglect of human rights obligations, OLAF</span><span style="color: #93c47d;"> <a href="https://www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/eyropi/368846_ereyna-tis-olaf-stin-eyropaiki-ypiresia-asyloy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">has</span> <span style="color: #93c47d;">launched</span></a></span><span style="color: white;"> an investigation of the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA). </span><a href="https://wearesolomon.com/mag/accountability/exclusive-fears-of-another-frontex-as-anti-fraud-watchdog-investigates-eu-asylum-agency/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to Solomon, the allegations “echoes of the scandal that engulfed Frontex”. The NGO founded in Athens, states: “The latest claims suggest serious governance and accountability issues are becoming endemic to the agencies tasked with implementing EU policy towards refugees and migrants. These internal, organisational issues are once again accompanied by an alleged failure to react to human rights violations at the bloc’s borders”. According to Solomon, the agency was asked in August by lawyers from RSA to explain how it had followed up on reported pushbacks with Executive Director Nina Gregori, responding that such reports was “outside of the scope of the Code of Conduct and related incident Report Mechanism”. A spokesperson for the agency stated that while asylum is a fundamental right: “it is likewise absolutely clear that border control – and therefore potential pushbacks – falls under the mandate of Frontex. The EUAA has no competence in border control”. That interpretation is disputed by experts and assistant professor of EU law at the University of Leiden, Melanie Fink, stated: “Their legal obligation does not stem only from their founding regulation,” pointing out: “The entirety of EU law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights applies, and they are bound by it. These include positive obligations to react to fundamental rights violations”. The EUAA is currently recruiting an officer to oversee its compliance with its human rights obligations and is expected to create a complaints mechanism similar to the one in place at Frontex.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">On 1 December, the Greek government </span><a href="https://migration.gov.gr/etisia-epikairopoiisi-asfalon-choron-proeleysis-kai-dieleysis/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">announced the annual</span></a><span style="color: white;"> update of the list of safe countries of origin and transit. Türkiye remains on the list as a safe third country for applicants for international protection for main refugee groups from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia meaning their asylum claims can be deemed inadmissible. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MinosMouz/status/1597286660777349121" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">According</span></a><span style="color: white;"> to Minos Mouzourakis, a significant drop in the first instance recognition rates for people originating from those three of those countries – Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia from the second to the third quarter of 2022 is “illustrating safe third country decisions” considering that Eurostat counts safe third country decisions as rejections. NGOs </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-two-deadly-shipwrecks-in-the-aegean-continued-pushbacks-and-non-response-by-authorities-ngos-urge-a-repeal-safe-third-country-list/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">have urged</span></a><span style="color: white;"> a repeal of the list However, as </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-hrw-finds-turkiye-increasingly-unsafe-for-refugees-and-calls-for-eu-pressure-to-repeal-jmd-pushbacks-and-abuse-continue-and-recognised-refugees-are-left-in-destitution/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">reported</span></a><span style="color: white;"> by ECRE the situation for refugees in Türkiye has </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-pushbacks-by-sea-and-land-turkiye-an-increasingly-unsafe-third-country/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">been deteriorating</span></a><span style="color: white;"> with increasing hate speech, attacks and deportations. </span><a href="https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/turkiye-report-2022_en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">A report on</span></a><span style="color: white;"> Türkiye by the European Commission related to Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations released on 12 October pointed to: “Recurrent allegations of human rights violations in the field of migration and asylum, particularly in removal centres remain a concern… NGOs have noted reports of detainees being coerced to sign voluntary return forms in removal centres and an increase in hate crimes and incidents motivated by anti-refugee sentiments and are a cause for concern”. In late November </span><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/iran-turkey-fleeing-afghans-unlawfully-returned-after-coming-under-fire-at-borders/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Amnesty</span></a><span style="color: white;"> International and </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/18/turkey-pushes-afghans-back-iran-border" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Human Right Watch</span></a><span style="color: white;"> (HRW) presented their </span><a href="https://twitter.com/HRW_Brussels/status/1597214701062324225" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">respective reports</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of Syrian and Afghan refugees </span><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/philippe_dam/status/1597512066885365760" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">facing</span></a><span style="color: white;"> “arrest, detention, ill-treatment & deportation” in Türkiye to EU officials. The independent Syrian outlet Enab Baladi </span><a href="https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2022/11/syrians-at-greece-border-remarkable-changes-by-turkish-authorities/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">reports</span></a><span style="color: white;"> of an “unprecedented turn on the Turkish side” in the approach to people on the move with border guards: “detaining and forcibly deporting them upon their return or during their crossing to Greece”.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">For further information:</span></span></p><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">ECRE, </span><a href="https://ecre.org/greece-calls-for-safe-and-legal-pathways-reiterated-as-three-more-bodies-are-recovered-in-the-aegean-as-government-remains-defiant-in-the-face-of-mounting-evidence-of-violations-eu-top-official-decl/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Greece: Calls for Safe and Legal Pathways Reiterated as Three More Bodies are Recovered in the Aegean, As Government Remains Defiant in the Face of Mounting Evidence of Violations EU Top Official Declare Support</span></a><span style="color: white;">, November 2022</span></span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial;">ECRE,</span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #93c47d;"> <a href="https://ecre.org/greece-two-deadly-shipwrecks-in-the-aegean-continued-pushbacks-and-non-response-by-authorities-ngos-urge-a-repeal-safe-third-country-list/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Greece: Two Deadly Shipwrecks in the Aegean, Continued Pushbacks and Non-Response by Authorities, NGOs Urge a Repeal of Safe Third Country List</span></a></span><span style="color: white;">, November 2022</span></span></li></ul><div align="center" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><hr size="2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="90%" /></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">This article appeared in the</span><span style="color: #93c47d;"> <a href="https://ecre.org/media/ecre-weekly-bulletin/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">ECRE Weekly Bulletin</span></a></span><span style="color: white;">. 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