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https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article67299
#EU #migration strategy of “border externalization,” ..The idea is to increasingly outsource European border control by partnering with #African governments, extending EU jurisdiction deep into the countries from which many migrants come. The strategy is multifaceted, including the distribution of high-tech #surveillance equipment, police trainings and development programs — or at least the illusion of them — that claim to address the root causes of migration.
"[T]he EU’s suite of African anti-migration efforts amount to techno-political experiments: equipping authoritarian governments with repressive tools that can be used on migrants, and many others as well".
"A European Commission spokesperson claimed that “All security projects funded by the EU have a training and capacity building component on human rights” and that the bloc conducts human rights impact assessments prior to and during the implementation of all such projects. But when Dutch MEP Tineke Strik asked for those assessment reports earlier this year, she received official responses from three separate Commission departments saying they did not have them". #EuropeanCommission #EU