Blackmail in the Balkans: how the EU is externalising its asylum policies
01 June 2021
The development of a system for collecting data on people on the move in the Balkans highlights the overall orientation of the EU s migration policies: outsourcing migration management at all costs, to the detriment of provisions for reception. In order to keep those considered as undesirable at a distance, would the European Union go so far as to extend beyond its borders the ‘Dublin’ mechanism for allocating state responsibility for asylum claims, at the risk of further aggravating the rights violations along the Balkan route?
Dublin: the failure of European solidarity