Calais Jungle: Anglo-French plan to build a four-metre high wall to ensure road safety in Calais

The UK immigration minister has confirmed a wall will be built along the Calais port’s main dual-carriageway approach road, which passes adjacent to the Calais Jungle refugee camp. Construction of the wall is part of a £17 million Anglo-French security package, which includes safe spaces for trucks to wait at the port. The security measures […]

PublishedSeptember 7th, 2016 Author Legacy
Topics

• Europe
• Featured
• Refugee Report
• Borders
• Calais Jungle
• France
• Refugees
• Smuggling
• UK

Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/09/calais-jungle-anglo-french-plan-to-build-a-four-metre-high-wall-to-ensure-road-safety-in-calais/

Europe: a Year on from Merkel’s ‘Wir schaffen das’ (We can do it!) on Refugees

Marking the anniversary of Chancellor Merkel’s statements offering sanctuary to Syrian refugees in 2015, the Chancellor has now made critical statements highlighting faults made in the European response to the refugee crisis. Ms. Merkel commented on Europe being ill-prepared for a refugee crisis that had been building for several years, and the severely lacking coordination and […]

PublishedAugust 31st, 2016 Author Legacy
Topics

• Europe
• Featured
• Refugee Report
• Balkans
• Borders
• Egypt
• EU
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Italy
• Libya
• Mediterranean
• Refugees
• Turkey

Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/08/europe-a-year-on-from-merkels-wir-schaffen-das-we-can-do-it-on-refugees/