Tineke Strik @Tineke_Strik@respublicae.eu

At the border between Mauritania and Senegal, the local Red Cross receiving returned migrants lacks funds and even has to collect money from locals for food and medical care.

They get zero EU assistance, while on the contrary, local border police is given high tech equipment.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1629138476749684738

RT @earsinfingers: Soon @StatewatchEU will be publishing a new report on secrecy and the externalisation of EU migration controls.

For now, you can read an opinion piece in @euobs on the research process, what we found out, and the problem of secrecy:

https://euobserver.com/opinion/156713

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628869483698831364

Apparently Orban can’t stand the integrity and authority of @andraslederer, who never compromises on the truth and human rights.
Human rights defenders have become outlawed in Hungary.
RT @MaryLawlorhrds: I've received disturbing news of what appears to be a targeted smear campaign by state-controlled media against the Hungarian HRD & member of the @hhc_helsinki @andraslederer. This is the latest in a series of attempts to discredit civil society in #Hungary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628833837588389894

Very interesting meeting with the 🇸🇳 border police.

They expressed their concerns about #Frontex involvement in pushbacks at EU borders, and rightfully posed the question what guarantees they will have that Frontex will respect human rights when acting on Senegalese territory.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628809806839529472

Continuing our visit in Senegal 🇸🇳

We started with an insightful meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who emphasized the need for a more human and development based approach towards migration - the total opposite of the EU's irrational focus on security and borders.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628737890585833473

Waarom een Rwanda-deal (dus afschuiven van verantwoordelijkheid voor asielzoekers) onrechtmatig en verwerpelijk is. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-outsourcen-en-afkopen-van-asielprocedures-buiten-eu-is-een-onzalig-en-onrechtmatig-plan~b45b6d29/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628651895203024896

RT @ErnstCornelia: We are continuing our mission in #Senegal today in #Dakar starting with a briefing at the EU delegation with the EU ambassador, the German and Dutch ambassadors, Frontex and representatives of the Spanish embassy and the Guardia Civil. @Tineke_Strik

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628444820032159744

RT @ecre: BREAKING from @ThomasWilleken1:

A Dutch court suspended Dublin transfers to Belgium due to the ongoing reception crisis.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628424127861125121

RT @ErnstCornelia: Mauritania hosts more than 107.000 refugees. In #Nouadhibou we met IOM and UNHCR in their joint office Their work focuses in particular on registration of asylum seekers, screening of vulnerabilities after disembarkation, voluntary returns and reintegration. @Tineke_Strik

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628120659673874432

This morning, we met Mauritanian civil society representatives, the true cornerstone of the country's human rights protection.

They told us about problems that migrants and refugees face, including access to education and labour market, severely harming their future perspective.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1628098439153057801

RT @ErnstCornelia: This week @Tineke_Strik and I are on a mission in #Mauritania and #Senegal. We will focus on the #Frontex status agreements that the #EU is currently negotiating with both countries, and possible human rights implications for people on the move.

More info 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627719851643895813

RT @matteodebellis: Lithuania has also violated EU law - as the CJEU has ruled - and continues to carry out unlawful pushbacks leaving families in the cold.
The "Guardian of the Treaties" should call infringements out, not accept awards for keeping quiet.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627656474276032514

Just now, we joined a Mauritanian Coast Guard patrol. Their main task is monitoring fisheries quota, but the EU wants them to focus on migration.

Interceptions at sea impact migratory routes, forcing people into the dangerous Algerian desert.

Chances of survival are very slim.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627648890752172034

Because of the large implications that a status agreement has, it has to be formally approved by the EP.
@ErnstCornelia is appointed as the Rapporteur for Senegal, I am for Mauritania. That is why we jointly undertake this informal fact-finding mission.

Follow for updates!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627346040192999428

I'm also worried about the provision in the EU negotiating mandate that Frontex staff should enjoy immunity, meaning they can't be prosecuted.
Especially with the tasks that border guards perform, this is very risky in terms of accountability and harms a country's sovereignty.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627345988624035841

It is for example questionable whether people will have access to an asylum procedure in Mauritania or Senegal if they are intercepted by Frontex at sea and brought back.
There is a risk that people get stuck without access to protection, which is a basic fundamental right.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627345899520155648

The possible deployment of Frontex officers in Mauritania and Senegal fits in a broader trend of externalization: Member States are deeply divided over internal reforms, so instead choose to outsource responsibility to non-EU countries - often at the costs of refugees’ rights.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1627345880318631936