13/01/2023 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 13 January, the European Commission announced in a statement that it had decided to register a new European citizens’ initiative (ECI) on safeguarding fundamental rights at EU borders. This ECI is entitled “Article 4: Stop Torture and Inhuman Treatment at the Borders of Europe” and is promoted by the Italian collective ‘Basta violenza alle frontiere’. It concerns “the establishment of a framework to ensure compliance with the prohibition...