Refugees Archives - Investigate Europe

9 September 2022 Secrets of the council

Dismantling Schengen – half a year at a time

By Sigrid Melchior, Pascal Hansens, Nico Schmidt, Amund Trellevik and Ingeborg Eliassen

Several EU nations have circumvented the free movement agreement by using near-constant internal border checks. Now, an EU Court has deemed such policies to be illegal. What next for Schengen? Read more "Dismantling Schengen – half a year at a time"

The little dead of Lesbos

30 March 2020
Mediapart, France

Europe ignored Greece’s request to host refugee children for months

14 March 2020
Diário de Notícias, Portugal

Borderlands: Minor migrants imprisoned in Europe

From the remote island of Mayotte in the Comoros Archipelago, to the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos; and from Spanish territory cities in Morocco, to cosmopolitan airports in Berlin, Lisbon and London – we found children being detained, against international rules. Read more "Borderlands: Minor migrants imprisoned in Europe"

Juvenile immigrants: the map of European hypocrisy

10 March 2020
EfSyn, Greece

The ‘invisible’ children held in detention around Europe

10 March 2020
Huffington Post, UK