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Editorial: Shifting borders
23 September 201124Presseurop -
Human rights: Frontex accused of mistreating immigrants
22 September 2011744Presseuropi -
Refugees: Asylum in Europe — a mirage across the water
3 August 20113148 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
A town in Europe: Przemyśl's double life
28 June 2011110 La Croix Paris -
Immigration: Trouble never ends at Greek-Turkish border
26 May 2011832 Le Monde Paris -
Freedom of movement: Schengen scaleback will kill European ideal
11 May 201132216 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Russia-EU: Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 2011541 Polityka Warsaw -
Schengen Area: Walking the border tightrope
5 May 201157 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Labour market: Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111571 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Editorial: Fragile symbol
29 April 2011251Presseurop -
Czech Republic-Poland: Hectares of contention
26 April 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
hachfeld: The keeper of Fortress Europe
21 February 201153 Neues Deutschland Berlin -
Immigration: What to do? Give them a job!
18 February 20111142 La Repubblica Rome -
Cristian: Jackpot
9 February 201114 Gandul Bucharest -
Romania: Anti-corruption checkmate still far off
9 February 2011PresseuropGandul -
Greece: Athens fears wave of North Africa migrants
1 February 2011PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Turkey-Greece: From the other side of the wall
17 January 201160 Sabah Istanbul -
Asylum Policy: Might as well build a wall
10 January 20111701 Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
Greece | Turkey: Armed EU to keep out migrant flow
26 October 2010136 The Guardian London -
Immigration: Frontex flies under the radar
7 October 2010PresseuropBlog -
Immigration: Frontex launches first expulsion charter
4 October 201063PresseuropLe Monde -
Immigration: Where have all the migrants gone?
18 August 2010782 The Economist London -
Immigration: Boat people looking for new ways in
24 June 2010354 Le Monde Paris -
Freedom of movement: Schengen is the real Europe
20 April 201016 Polityka Warsaw -
European Agencies: Too many, too much
24 March 2010La Tribune Paris -
Moldova: First steps to Brussels
13 January 2010PresseuropTimpul -
Debate: Europe, the future frontiers
14 October 2009112 Le Monde Paris -
Trade: Moldova, the next Eldorado
28 September 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Immigration: The huddled masses at 4,000 euros a head
22 September 2009PresseuropEl Mundo -
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Have passport, can't travel
3 September 200921 BH Dani Sarajevo -
Human rights: Extradition in a fine mess
7 August 2009The Guardian London -
Meditteranean: EU shares out (a few) immigrants
10 July 2009PresseuropLe Monde
Twenty-five refugees have just suffocated in the engine room of a boat bound for Italy. Their deaths are not merely another episode in the decades-old refugee crisis along Europe's southern coasts, but are part of the European strategy for deterring asylum-seekers. 
Not far from the Ukrainian border, the small Polish town of Przemyśl is one of the eastern gates of the Schengen area. But people on both sides continue to keep up close ties, and small trade thrives under the tolerant eye of the customs officials. 
Illegal migration into Greece has slowed at the crossing near the Turkish city of Edirne since the Frontex mission, charged by the European Union to monitor its borders, deployed there for four months. But while this gap in the Schengen Zone may be partially plugged, the problem has simply been displaced. A report. 
Giving in to demands from France and Italy, Brussels has recognised the principle of the temporary reinstatement of border controls within the EU. A Romanian columnist argues that final approval by the EU27, to be taken on 12 May, would mark a major step backwards. 
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. 
A more open Europe with tighter external borders: in a bid to establish a consensus on the issue of the reform of the Schengen Agreement, the EU home affairs commissioner has been forced to walk a tightrope. However, Dagens Nyhter argues that the proposals presented by Cecilia Malmström succeed in striking a delicate balance. 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
Italy has requested financial assistance from the EU to cope with the wave of migrants from north Africa. Instead of increasing the budget of Frontex, the border security agency, the EU should rather reform its asylum policy to foster economic integration of immigrants. 
The fence Greece has decided to build on its Turkish border to keep would-be immigrants out will also be yet another obstacle between Turkey and the EU, argues the chief editor of the Istanbul paper Sabah. 
By March, Greece will have built a 12km long anti-immigrant fence along its border with Turkey. But perhaps throwing up a proper wall would have woken the EU to its woeful immigration policy, spectulates a Berliner Zeitung columnist. 
The numbers of immigrants seeking passage through the porous Turko-Greek border has quadrupled in the past year. With the Greek government unable to cope, Frontex, Europe’s external borders agency is to deploy armed guards to the region. 
Politicians are playing on fears of a migrant "invasion", but as The Economist's Charlemagne points out, there are fewer and fewer boat people landing on our shores. 
Sea patrols mounted by the border security agency Frontex and controversial collaboration with Libya have begun to show results: fewer migrants are crossing the Mediterranean to enter Europe. However, new routes are opening up and prompting fresh crises elsewhere. 
The Poles did not really feel they belonged to the European Union until 2007, when their country became part of the Schengen area. Now they are members of an exclusive club, which is still viewed as a paradise by the countries who have yet to join. A report from Polish weekly Polityka.
Immigration, fisheries, GMOs… 28 agencies are supposed to provide support for EU member states and their citizens. But they are being criticized for their high running costs and poor management practice. La Tribune reports on the issues that Brussels is planning to set right. 
As the political situation on its periphery evolves, the EU needs to clearly define its borders, argues geopolitician Michel Foucher in Le Monde, especially in regard to Turkish accession, on which the Commission is publishing its annual report today. 
From 1st January, 2010, Muslim Bosnians and Kosovans will be the only citizens of the former Yugoslavia required to obtain visas to enter the European Union. Sarejevo daily, BH Dani, explains how impartial principles will result in discriminatory practice. 
The 2002 European arrest was intended to facilitate extradition between EU members states as a response to the post 9/11 terror threat. With latest data suggesting that the bulk of extradition requests are for trivial offences, David Cronin in the Guardian argues that the system is "a shambles" that exacts a high human cost.