Brussels, 16/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - The Migreurop network, which groups about 40 European and African associations, severely criticises the “externalisation” process of the European Union migratory policy in its second annual report on Europe's borders, published on 12 November in Madrid. Examples to hand, the network shows how the EU “through the threat of reconsideration of cooperation agreements and development aid” compels third countries “not only to readmit the migrants chased from Europe, but also to keep those on their own territory from travelling towards its doors”. “From the Calais area in France to the edge of Turkey and the Adriatic Sea, from the surroundings of Gibraltar to the Sahel Saharan desert and the new member states of eastern Europe, subcontracting of migratory control is carried out in series, sometimes very far away from the Union but also within its territory, especially when it deals with sending asylum seekers considered as unwanted from country to country”, states the report entitled “European borders: controls, detention, deportations”. Migreurop goes on to comment: “A large population of exiles, from both sides of the European borders, is subjected to arbitrary incarceration, wandering, and the constant humiliation of a hostile environment”. (B.C./transl.jl)