30th
of November and 1st of December 2009 in Brussels – Transnational
Protests in front of the EU – Justice and Home Affairs – Meeting
Refugee Protection and Migrants Rights instead of a brutal
EU-Border-regime! No to the repressive Stockholm program! After Tampere
and The Hague, the Stockholm program will constitute the next
5-year-framework for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)
within the EU and its memberstates. The new program claims to build up
the ‘area of freedom, justice and security’. But in fact it will
continue to implement an even tighter regime of surveillance and
control and will promote a securitisation of social life, undermining
all civil rights and privacy despite contrary claims.
Those most affected are refugees and migrants, denounced and
criminalized as ‘illegals’ and hunted by national borderguards and the
EU-agency Frontex. With the “road map of Stockholm” the EU and national
governments go on to escalate their border regimes to a real war as
Frontex’ role in militarising the borders will be strengthened once
again. Many thousand people have died and drowned trying to cross the
borders of Europe over the last years, hundreds of thousands have been
detained and deported. Refoulement is a daily practice at all hot spots
of the EU external border : from Hungary and Slovakia to Ukraine, from
Greece to Turkey, from Italy to Libya and from Spain to Morocco. The
western European Schengen states and Britain are the driving forces in
externalising migration control.
