FOR THE THIRD TIME Meloni has shipped a handful of asylum seekers back & forth across the Adriatic. This is costing Italian taxpayers hundreds of millions. It is a farcical spectacle of cruelty that only serves to highlight the lack of control you get from the far right

👏@EU_Commission is finally examining its funding to Tunisia in an attempt to put human rights at the centre of its relationship with the North African Country. This comes after the Guardian investigation and various critics that have exposed abuses by EU-funded 🇹🇳 security forces that include ❌Rape ❌Beatings ❌Theft of boat engines ❌Arbitary arrest ❌Forced evictions ❌Denial of asylum ❌Pushbacks ECRE director Catherine Woollard warned in an editorial after the signature of the memorandum in July 2023 that the deal is: 👉typical of contemporary migration cooperation agreements - an informal format -negotiated non-transparently with an authoritarian leader 👉It employs rhetoric about human rights protection, but in reality, it may increase human rights violations 👉focuses on "training and equipping" repressive regimes Full editorial here: