The GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament submitted a Black Paper on the practice of refoulement of migrants at the external borders of the European Union to the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, on Friday 18 December.
This document was developed by NGOs grouped since 2016 around the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) project, the group explained in a statement. The network has collected testimonies from migrants along the ‘Balkan route’ and investigated...