Egypt is home to one of the EU’s externalised external borders. The route to Europe remains blocked: the EU has invested millions of euros to conclude an agreement with Egypt that secures this border. Now there is an asylum law, but it offers people no security.

The new article series by borderline-europe shines a light on the digital side of European border policy. Discover how artificial intelligence, biometrics, and drones are being deployed for invisible mass surveillance and exclusion.

borderline-europe started in March 2019 to put together information about the situation in the Central Mediterranean Sea for internal research reasons. ISome of the data are published here and on our social media channels.

Enforced disappearance is a particularly insidious form of political repression. Political opponents are silenced and their entire social circle is intimidated. Together with the Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, we document human rights violations involving cases of forcefully disappeared activists and migrants.

borderline-europe is involved in two very different MONITORING projects:

• In ‘Detention, illegalisation and the so-called CEAS reform in southern Italy’, the focus is on the implementation of the European Pact on Migration at the EU's external border. The project started in September 2024.
• "Invisible" is about the situation of refugees in Sicily.
• Mem.Med is a cooperation project between many entities that carefully focus on the people who have not made it through the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. borderline-europe supports the project through volunteers.

Here you can find our monthly Update on the situation in Italy "Scirocco - News in Brief" and further information on the situation of refugees and migrants in Italy.