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🗞️Asylum seekers have been unlawfully detained in EU-funded facilities on the Greek island of Samos. Now, we run the risk of turning Samos into a blueprint for how the EU 'manages' its borders, which isn't too good. This week's EU Affairs newsletter explains what Samos means for the EU, how Russian espionage is back on the agenda, and how the ongoing investigation into X is taking shape. 👀Russian spies have been busy over the past 2 years, and a new immigration law for Russian and Belarusian citizens might not help to mitigate that. Lorenzo Di Stasi writes about the risk of espionage through Hungary and the EU's reaction. 🇬🇷 A (de facto) detention facility on the Greek island of Samos shows how the Migration and Asylum Pact could look like in action.The Samos Closed Control Access Center unlawfully detains asylum seekers and lacks basic services and hygiene. I spoke to the researchers and NGO workers behind the report that details what happens in Samos to find out if the center can become the blueprint for how the EU treats asylum seekers. 🧑🏻💻Everyone's favourite billionaire and increasingly infamous conspiracy theorist Elon Musk added fuel to the unjustly lit fire of the racist UK riots. Thibault W. B. Krause writes about how X's role in the riots has not gone unnoticed to EU regulators, who are likely to include the events of the past few weeks in their ongoing investigation into the platform. Read these and more stories in today's edition of the European Affairs newsletter here 👀 https://lnkd.in/eUYMzhhq Or listen to this edition https://lnkd.in/evq9VS-b And subscribe to the The European Correspondent https://lnkd.in/esh8sVDB

Germany introduces new law requiring new citizens to recognize the existence of Israel. 🇩🇪🤝🇮🇱 The new citizenship requirements will feature “New test questions… on the topics of antisemitism, the right of the state of Israel to exist and Jewish life in Germany.” Interior Minister Nancy Fraser has said: “Anyone who shares our values and makes an effort can now get a German passport more quickly and no longer has to give up part of their identity by giving up their old nationality.” “But we have also made it just as clear: anyone who does not share our values cannot get a German passport. We have drawn a crystal-clear red line here and made the law much stricter than before.” Source: Financial Times Oli London @OliLondon

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What happens when life ends at Europe's borders?  How are these people’s lives marked? How can their families honor them? How do governments recognize their existence and their fundamental rights as human beings? More than 29,000 people have died on European migration routes in the last decade, most of whose names remain unknown. Here is an explainer on the award-winning cross-border investigation #BorderGraves by our own Gabriela Ramírez, who is one of the journalists part of the Border Graves Investigation team collaborating to uncover this disturbing reality across Europe. Dive deep into this investigation on our website, where we published five deeply human-centered stories for each region covered: https://lnkd.in/eJ35QHBP The Border Graves Team: Tina Xu Danai Maragoudaki Daphne Tolis Leah Pattem Eoghan Gilmartin Gabriele Cruciata Barbara Matejcic and Gabriela Ramírez In collaboration with reporters from The Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung Unbias The News Team: Christina Lee (Editor in Chief) Gabriela Ramírez (Multimedia Editor) and antoine bouraly (Illustrator) . #migration #journalism #europe #bordergraves #migrants #europe #refugees #asylumseekers #eu #elections Hostwriter