Across the political spectrum in Europe, leaders, right and left, are pushing a tougher line on undocumented migrants

In nations across the European Union, centrists are joining staunch conservatives to roll back protections in an effort to make it easier to deport illegal migrants. 

European Union officials are working on new rules that would help to send asylum seekers to third countries. 

The shift has steadily built with the voter backlash that helped fuel nationalist, far-right and populist parties after Europe took in more than a million Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others seeking asylum a decade ago.

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the bloc’s executive arm, emphasized in a recent letter to political leaders that arrivals from Libya into Greece are surging, and said that Europe must “insist on strengthening border management.”

New York Times 29 juni 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/world/europe/europe-migration-crackdown-trump.html

How a Record Number of Migrants Made Their Way to Europe

The number of migrants and refugees who have entered Europe by sea and land this year has passed the one million mark, a long-expected but symbolically significant capstone to a year in which displaced people flocked to the Continent.

The huge influx — the largest movement of people on the Continent since World War II — has strained the resources of Germany, which has been the ultimate destination for most of the migrants; prompted a right-wing backlash there and in much of Europe; and exposed the European Union’s inability to coordinate an effective response.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/world/europe/migrant-crisis-europe-million.html

Decemberöverenskommelsen

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/gott-nytt-ar.html

När Khaddafi fick jobb som EU:s gränspolis

I början av oktober 2010 åkte EU-kommissionär Cecilia Malmström till Libyen

https://www.nejtillemu.com/ceciliamalmstrom.htm#Kingvidg

Det kommer att bli en tufff uppgift för den Cecilia Malström som fortfarande låter som en naiv och välmenande FPU-are.

Ute i Europa kallar man inte muslimska tonårspojkar från striderna i Irak och Afghanistan för ensamkommande flyktingbarn.

Man ser fram emot att just Cecilia Malmström skall bli den som skärper EU:s politik mot migranterna. Tänk att få se henne inviga EU:s nya mottagningscentrumet i Libyen...

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/08/libyen-its-complicated.html

Det samarbetsavtal som Malmström och Füle skrev under gick alldeles för långt. Libyen skulle få 50 miljoner euro under en treårsperiod för att genomföra ”reformer” rörande asylmottagning, gränsövervakning och gränskontroll.

I praktiken innebar alltså överenskommelsen att EU anställde Khaddafi som unionens gränsvakt.

Annika Ström Melin 24 augusti 2011

https://www.dn.se/ledare/signerat/en-olycklig-resa-libyen-nar-khaddafi-fick-jobb-som-eus-granspolis/