Frontex chief looks beyond EU borders
EU border control agency Frontex is looking to buy drones and satellite images to monitor migrant behaviour beyond the Union's borders.
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- Brexit low priority at EU summit
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- UN expert: Saudi prince behind Khashoggi murder
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- Hard-Brexiteer Johnson on track to be UK prime minister
- Spain's far-right Vox joins ECR group
Commission goes easy on scant national climate plans
Environmental NGOs immediately denounce member states' draft plans as a "climate fail", while EU commissioners refrained from "naming-and-shaming".
Interview
Meet the lawyer taking the EU migration policy to the ICC
Juan Branco is a lawyer and co-author of a legal document submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing EU officials and member states of crimes against humanity for their migration policies. "Some people should have to go to prison."
Fortress Europe
EUobserver's Nikolaj Nielsen visited the Greek-Turkish border in November to see what 'Fortress Europe' means in practice for refugees and people smugglers trying to get into the Union.
EUobserver investigative reports
EUobserver's 'Fortress Europe' series looks at refugee and immigration networks operating on the edge of Europe, focusing on the 12.5-km Greek 'wall' completed late last year.
About Nikolaj Nielsen
Nikolaj Nielsen is a Danish-American journalist working for EUobserver in Brussels. He won a King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.
'I have heard about EU austerity, but still I would like to go'
Poor labour conditions, racism and squalid housing is making African migrants in Istanbul dream of the EU despite its crisis.
Istanbul: smuggler capital for EU-bound migrants
Smuggler groups - kacakci - who get people from Turkey into the EU make more money each time the Union takes steps to protect the border.
Fortress Europe: a Greek wall close up
A 12.5km fence rolled with barbwire along the Greek Turkish border is part of a larger initiative to secure Europe from migrants seeking a better life.
Turkish limbo pushing Afghan refugees to EU
Afghan refugees trapped in legal limbo in Turkey are pursuing new Balkan routes to get into the EU.
Amnesty: migrant abuse in Greece is 'humanitarian crisis'
The poor treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in Greece is a humanitarian disaster, says a report released on Wednesday by Amnesty International.
Land border sealed, Greek police chief says
A chief of police in north-eastern Greece says irregular migrants no longer cross into the country from Turkey. Land mines from World War II are among the deterrents.
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