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Eight years have passed since the image of little Alan Kurdi, found dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey, together with 12 other people fleeing the war in Syria, went around the world. We wondered on whether or not to publish the photo of the 3 year old child's body.Those who had done so said they were convinced that that image would represent the point of no return: “If these images don't change Europe, what will?”, had headlined several newspapers.To hold those who govern to their responsibilities.That photo, it was written at the time, was the iconic representation, the "consequence", of political choices. This year the tenth anniversary was remembered of the Lampedusa shipwreck.It was October 3, 2013, when at least 368 people died in front of the island of Lampedusa, mostly Eritreans, fleeing from Libya.Even then, the images of the coffins lined up, white and small, shocked public opinion.Then, eight days later, there was “the shipwreck of the chil...

“The right advances”.“The European People's Party wins by a landslide”.“The real dark wave is yet to arrive.”These are some of the newspaper headlines that tell the outcome of the European elections on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June.The results were expected:the right and the far right increased their consensus, but did not obtain an absolute majority in the European Parliament.The three main right-wing parties (the more moderate European People's Party, the Conservatives and Reformists, which includes the Brothers of Italy, and Identity and Democracy, which includes the League) have different positions on many issues but they all agree on a point:the need to clamp down on migration in Europe, pushing towards an increasingly restrictive policy towards people arriving on the territory of the Union.“We want to stop uncontrolled migration,” was the slogan printed in large letters on the election posters of the European People's Party. Alre...

European First.It could be summarized like this the agreement on asylum and migration reached on 20 December after all-night negotiations between representatives of national governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission. After years of clashes and fractures, the European Union is consolidating, strengthening the walls of his fortress, erecting walls, elevating migrant people for a moment to a role that is difficult to maintain and then letting them fall.In the middle of the sea. We have been waiting for the reform of the European asylum and migration system for some time.There has been talk for years about the reform of the Dublin Regulation and, in particular, its key principle:that the country of entry be responsible for all asylum procedures even if those arriving do not intend to stay in the country where they arrive.There was great anticipation for this pact on asylum and migration because it will define the direction of EU migration policies for many yea...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked international indignation and a feeling of understandable and shareable compassion towards the population attacked and threatened by the bombings.Across Europe and beyond, countries have opened their borders to welcome Ukrainian asylum seekers and refugees. Read also >> Fleeing from Ukraine:first the children, then the white women and men and finally the Africans The decision unanimous of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) to invoke Directive 55 of 2001 on temporary protection, adopted over twenty years ago in the aftermath of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, gave Ukrainian citizens (with a limit, however, to those of other nationalities coming from the Eastern European country) access to various services social issues such as housing, education and healthcare by debureaucratizing each nation's laborious asylum process. The response to the crisis that broke out on February 24th is very different from what we have witnessed...