Migration: The Wretched of the Borders

The Mediterranean is becoming a graveyard as Europe looks to outsource the management of its borders, dealing out bribes to countries at its southern and eastern gateways. Stripped of their humanity, migrants are reduced to grim statistics. Journalists within the network Independent Media on the Arab World present readers with a series of articles exposing the exorbitant price paid by concerned populations, against their will.

The July 25th Path, Democracy, and Dictatorship in Tunisia

Following one of the world’s most dramatic democratic transitions since the early 1990s, Tunisia’s descent into personalist rule has been equally stark. Although Kais Saied’s accumulation of power bears similarities to executive aggrandizement in other parts of the world, Saied’s regime is atypical in other ways that may be telling of the president’s assets and liabilities as he and his opposition navigate the first presidential elections since the coup.

La dangereuse (sur)Realpolitik de Giorgia Meloni

Dans la perspective des prochaines élections européennes, la question des migrations est de nouveau la priorité de l’agenda politique de la Première ministre italienne, un agenda qui tend vers des durcissements sécuritaires de plus en plus inquiétants. L’externalisation des frontières semble désormais être la seule solution pour gérer les flux migratoires, comme le démontrent le protocole avec l’Albanie et les récents accords signés avec les présidents tunisien Kaïs Saïed et égyptien, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, malgré leurs violentes dérives autoritaires.