Tag: Tunisia
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Protests erupt across Middle East in Lebanon, Turkey and Tunisia after Gaza hospital strike
[ad_1] Violent protests have erupted across the Arab world amid a wave of anger after an air strike on a Gaza hospital killed at least 200 Palestinians on Tuesday evening. Demonstrators have stormed the Israeli consulate in Jordan while Western embassies have been targeted in Turkey, Tunisia and Lebanon, with rioting also breaking out in…
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EU mulls extending Irini military navy mission to Tunisia
[ad_1] The EU may extend its naval military operation Irini off Libya to include Tunisia, as a further means to prevent people from fleeing on boats towards Italy. “For that, I need certainly the agreement of Tunisia, because it has to be done on territorial waters with Tunisia and the mission was conceived for Libya,”…
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EU watchdog launches rights probe into Tunisia agreement
[ad_1] Questions are mounting on how the EU intends to safeguard rights in a migrant busting agreement signed over the summer with Tunisia’s autocrat government. “Where fundamental rights are not respected, there cannot be good administration,” said Emily O’Reilly, the EU’s administrative watchdog, the European Ombudsman, in a letter published on Friday (15 September) and…
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Tunisia yet to receive EU funds to stem migration, senior EU official says – POLITICO
[ad_1] BRUSSELS – Tunisia hasn’t received EU funding yet to stop migrants coming to Europe, the chief negotiator of the controversial deal between Brussels and Tunis told EU lawmakers Thursday. It’s too soon to see a fall in boat crossings to Europe, said the director general of the EU’s neighborhood department, Gert Jan Koopman, adding…
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Italy demands people rescued at sea go to Tunisia, say NGOs
[ad_1] Italy is demanding civilian rescue ships disembark people in Tunisia, as Rome clamps down on their operations in the Mediterranean Sea, according to NGOs. The pressure comes as three charity vessels have been detained by Italian authorities in the past few days and amid an on-going Tunisian-state sanctioned violent crackdown against black migrants. A…
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EU concern on migration from Tunisia was years in the making
[ad_1] EU efforts to crack down on irregular migration from Tunisia began almost 10 years ago. So the latest agreement with Tunisia’s autocratic leader, president Kais Saied, does not mean the EU is only now starting to take an interest in the north African state. In early 2014, it signed a so-called mobility partnership with…
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Tunisia abusing African migrants, says leading NGO
[ad_1] Tunisian security forces have been committing serious abuses against black African migrants, says leading NGO Human Rights Watch. Based on interviews with migrants and refugees, as well as Tunisian-based civil society, the report says the violence has been committed by the police, military, and the coast guard. The report throws an increasingly long shadow…
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EU leadership returns to Tunisia for second time in a month
[ad_1] European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is returning to Tunis along with the prime ministers of Italy and the Netherlands, Giorgia Meloni and Mark Rutte. The three are meeting on Sunday (16 July) with Tunisia’s president Kais Saied, an autocrat leader that has dismantled democracy and issued racist rants against sub-Saharan migrants. A…
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The punctured net of Mediterranean fishing regulation: the case of Tunisia
[ad_1] This article is reserved for our members “The sea is harsh. And the work is also harsh if the wholesalers eat it all up.” So said the narrator of La Terra Trema, in 1948. Luchino Visconti’s film recounted the injustice experienced by the fishermen of a small village near Catania in Sicily. They were…
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No details on new EU aid to curb migrants from Tunisia
[ad_1] The European Fee on Monday (12 June) stated it can not but launch particulars behind €105m to stop migrants from leaving Tunisia. The €105m determine is a part of a €1bn help settlement, introduced in Tunis on Sunday by European Fee president Von der Leyen, alongside prime ministers of Italy and the Netherlands, Giorgia…