financialisation
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The statement is in response to the European Ombudsperson’s decision, published on 28 February 2024, following its own-initiative strategic inquiry concerning the role of Frontex in the context of search and rescue operations. The statement draws on the Joint Contribution the organisations made during this inquiry.
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Submitted to the European Ombudsman on 24 July 2023—together with Legal Centre Lesvos, Mobile Info Team, HIAS and Equal Rights Beyond Borders—the complaint challenges the legality of the European Commission’s material and other forms of support to Greece’s border enforcement operations and infrastructure of illegal expulsions (‘pushbacks’) at Greece’s Evros river and Aegean sea borders.
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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.
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The inquiry is based on the joint submission of a complaint against the European Commission by de:border // migration justice collective, Legal Centre Lesvos, HIAS Greece, Equal Rights Beyond Borders, and Mobile Info Team, with the support of several investigative and research partners—including Dr. Lena Karamanidou, Border Violence Monitoring Network, Forensic Architecture and Lighthouse Reports.
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In the weeks following the Pylos shipwreck, together with members of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research and participants of the Feminist No Borders Summer School: Abolitionist Care, de:border co-drafted and signed this statement—‘Abolishing Borders, Ending Violence, Transforming Justice’.