Discovering the institutions in Europe: FRONTEX
Among the policies of the European Union, the control of external and internal borders is essential for the functioning and management of a common foreign policy. Let’s discover the agency that has been set up to better manage migration flows, the Border and Coast Guard Agency, more commonly known as FRONTEX. Council Regulation (EC) 2007/2004 […]
Conservation fortress: the new face of western colonialism
Until a few decades ago, we would never have thought that two terms such as Colonialism and Conservation could be associated. Yet, nature conservation has increasingly taken on the guise of a colonialist phenomenon. This has led to the term ‘fortress conservation’. This LM Talks speaks about the Western-style model of conservationism that targets indigenous […]
Cries of refugees transformed into a city. The Zaatari refugee camp
Jordan, 10 km from Mafraq in the north of the country, on the border with Syria and 70 km from the Jordanian capital Amman. The Zaatari refugee camp, since its opening on 28 July 2012, has become the largest refugee camp in the world. It was set up by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees […]
Discovering the institutions in Europe: the DGII of the Council of Europe
The Council of Europe continues to be the protagonist of our column “Discovering the institutions in Europe”. After having entered into the DGI, we are now going to understand the functions and some of the departments of the DGII, the Directorate-General for Democracy. Once again, it should be underlining the difficulty of summarising and understanding […]
Discovering the institutions in Europe: the DGI of the Council of Europe
Our journey through the institutions of Europe continues, and this time we go inside the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organisation, as explained in the first part of this section. The Council of Europe‘s mandate par excellence is the promotion of fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law within its 47 member states. Large […]
Interview with the Special Representative of the General Secretariat for Migration and Refugees
For this episode of LM Talks we moved to Strasbourg where we interviewed the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Migration and Refugees of the Council of Europe, Drahoslav Štefánek. It was a real honour for Large Movements to discuss the New pact on Migration and Asylum, presented by the European Commission on the […]
