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EU-funded refoulement and containment in the Central Mediterranean and Libya

Two interventions—before the European Court of Auditors (ECA) and the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee (PETI)—make up the first set of challenges to legally expose and challenge the structures of the EU’s externalisation, orchestration, and financialisation of migration control in the Central Mediterranean. The complaints—filed together with ASGI and ARCI, and supported by a coalition of 13 human rights groups—scrutinise the host of violations of EU and international law resulting from the EU’s financialised cooperation with the Italian-Libyan architecture of refoulement to and containment in Libya.

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Valentina Azarova
Andreina De Leo (advisor)

Partners

ARCI (Giorgia Jana Pintus)
ASGI (Sciabaca & Oruka project)

Contributors

Matteo De Bellis
Noemi Magugliani

Case documents

Submission to European Court of Auditors

Parliamentary Petition before PETI Committee

Coalition’s public statement

Commission’s response, 15 November 2022

Recording of PETI committee hearing, September 2021 & 26 January 2023

Related submissions

Valentina Azarova, Noemi Magugliani, and Violeta Moreno-Lax, ‘Submission to Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya on EU & its Member States’ Responsibilities’ (2021)






Last updated
May 2025