From “yes we can” to “no we won’t”: how governments’ hyperactive border control measures threaten EU free movement. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...
The bloc’s migration pact, finally agreed after a decade of talks, is already in peril as states outdo each other in efforts to get tough
For your diaries: Keir Starmer will meet Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels next Wednesday (2 October).
As we reported in July an EU-UK summit has been pencilled in for spring 2025. The summit would be between Keir Starmer and leaders of the EU institutions, rather than the EU27.
The EU trust fund for Africa does not appear to work on its own terms, suggests the auditors, who highlighted projects with no obvious link to migration, such as a music radio station and equipment for schools, including a blender for a school with no electricity supply.
Nearly nine years after EU leaders announced the trust fund for Africa with big fanfare, there is a risk that some of the money could fall into the hands of human rights abusers, says a quietly damning report from the EU's official spending watchdog. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...
The €5bn fund ignores the threat of human rights abusers receiving EU money, says European court of auditors
