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A group of people crowded onto a small open boat in the deep blue sea

Europe makes another move to outsource border control with Mauritania deal

Migration

The European Union just signed a deal with the West African nation Mauritania: In exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, Mauritania has pledged to stop the tens of thousands of migrants heading by boat to Spain from its shores.

The Aegean Sea is shown from Lesbos. Increasingly, migrants and advocates claim, Greek authorities are illegally pushing back to Turkey people who are making the journey to Greece in the Aegean Sea. 

‘People are being abandoned in the middle of the sea’: Claims that Greece pushes back migrants to Turkey are rising

Refugees
refugees are rescued on the Mediterranean Sea

After turning away rescued migrants, Italy’s far-right claim ‘victory’ when Spain opens port

Immigration