The deadly isolation of the European Union - the new CEAS laws and their consequences

The reform of the so-called Common European Asylum System (CEAS) de facto abolishes the right to asylum. Refugees who manage to cross the EU's increasingly militarized external borders and enter European territory can be detained for months in prison-like camps under the new CEAS regulations. Anyone who comes from a country that is classified as a safe country of origin or enters via a supposedly safe third country has little chance of asserting an individual right to asylum. This policy of isolation is constantly claiming new lives in the Mediterranean, but also in the desert of the Sahel, where EU border controls are being externalized.

Dr. Kerem Schamberger, refugee and migration officer at medico international, reports on Europe's external borders, violence and isolation, but also on solidarity and resistance. He has been to many of these places himself and has first-hand knowledge of the conditions. Medico international is an aid and human rights organization that campaigns worldwide for solidarity-based aid and global justice.

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