TELLING THE STORY OF - EU BORDER MILITARIZATION D E V

However, recent years have marked a steep change in both rhetoric and policy, with moves such as an unprecedented increase in the border agency Frontex’s budget and remit, and the creation of a new policy area for “Protecting/ Promoting our European Way of Life.” The Commission has put expensive, expansive, and extremely violent border control at the heart of European migration, security, and fore. [...] borders; in detention, in the legal system, and at the A shrinking space for civil society hands of increasingly unworkable systems that and humanitarian action, such as prevent people from accessing the right to seek the criminalisation of search and protection, or to move for a better life. [...] Remove the social licence of BSI companies involved in border violence to expose and EU Commission to stop outsourcing disrupt relationships between the EU migration control and provide more safe Commission, EU institutions and the border pathways and effective resettlement industry; ensure the EU is seen by civil programmes for people who need to move. [...] Point to double standards and the threat to European values What we need to do…  We need to be clear that the EU cannot be taken seriously What we are doing…  when promoting democracy and human rights around the The EU invests a great deal in world whilst it routinely, and lethally, violates those rights. [...] The role of lobbyists and divisions between migrants and the industry poses serious threats to the health of our citizens, or the silos between democracy.