From June to October 2026, across the Central Mediterranean, the EU and its member states have intensified their war on migration: expanding detention and deportation, strengthening Frontex, outsourcing border violence to third countries and criminalising those who move and who resist. From the persecution and displacement of racialised communities...
Everybody is talking about Ceuta and the 30th of july.
On June 12th, the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) came into effect. Looking back at the first month since the pact's implementation — the period between June 12th and July 12th, 2026 — we recorded 1,378 people reaching Lampedusa, compared to 2,504 during the same period in 2025: a decrease of over ...
Those responsible for the ongoing deaths at Europe's borders are already
preparing the next wave of rights deprivation for refugees and migrants. On 12
June 2026, the so-called Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is set to
come into force. This pact against migration introduces new detention centres
and accelerated asylum procedures with limited legal...
On the 6 th of February 2026, decentralized CommemorActions took place in over 60 cities across the Mediterranean sea. The gatherings collectively remembered the massacre which took place 12 years ago in Tarajal near Ceuta. Alongside relatives of the dead and missing at the borders, families and friends of victims of state and police violence...
On Thursday evening, January 22nd, at 18:40, 61 survivors arrived at Favaloro Pier. Departed from Tunisia on an iron boat, they have been taken onboard the Italian patrol boat CP 322, 50 nautical miles from Lampedusa, after being struck by Cyclone Harry—the most violent cyclone to hit the central Mediterranean in the 21st century. An event that...
Over the past month, Lampedusa has become a testing ground for the introduction of new screening and border management tools, most notably the new "Screening Toolbox" package made available by the Frontex Agency. The pilot, which lasted from October 13th to 24th 2025 at the Lampedusa hotspot and was carried out by Frontex in collaboration with EUAA...
