Europe’s Broken Promise: From Open Camps to High-Tech Prisons
Starting in Greece, Europe’s ‘migration management’ system treats people on the move as criminals, steals their dignity and normalizes high-tech surveillance and movement restriction.
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Inside Rouvikonas’ Push to Build a Nationwide Movement
The Greek anti-authoritarian collective Rouvikonas is expanding its presence across the country as the increases its repression. [VIDEO]
Marco Rubio’s Visit to Athens Raises Questions About Western Democracy
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Athens to tout democracy and tighten ties with Greece’s right-wing government, igniting protests over mounting militarization and fears the country could be dragged into foreign conflicts.
Greek Trials Turn Migrants Into ‘Smugglers’ and Minors Into Adults
Crete’s courts are convicting shipwrecked people on the move as “smugglers” in trials lasting minutes, with lawyers documenting minors registered as adults and sentences reaching hundreds of years.
Nikos Romanos Acquitted As Greek Government Pushes Terrorism Cases
Testing Greece’s controversial terrorism law, Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos was acquitted of terrorism charges after serving 17 months in pretrial detention in what he described as "political revenge" over a partial fingerprint found in an apartment after an accidental explosion in Oct. 2024.
A Failed Reception System in Crete Turns People on the Move Into Political Targets
Villagers in Crete are fighting the government’s plan to convert a disused factory into a reception center for people on the move, escalating a monthslong standoff that pits xenophobic backlash against an increasingly securitized European border regime.
Locked Up and Criminalized: People on the Move Face a Broken System on Crete’s Shores
People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylum Pact.
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Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System
Since 2022, the German collective Rosa Rolling Safespace has been providing a mobile safe space for women living in refugee camps around Athens. Their work shows that gender-based violence in these settings is not incidental but structural, a direct product of European and Greek migration policies.
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In Athens, Albania’s Diaspora Watches a Revolt at Home, and Finds Its Own Voice
What started as an environmental protest in Albania related to Trump's son-in-law's business ventures became something bigger — addressing long-standing corruption, the right to information and transparency and who gets to decide Albania's future. The unrest has reached the diaspora.