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A boat used by migrants to cross the Mediterranean Sea is towed from Tripiti beach to the Karave the port of Gavdos, Greece, in July 2025 after hundreds were rescued near the island and the island of Crete in separate incidents. (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

The Mediterranean: Both a graveyard and a bottomless money pit due to EU border policies

Luna Vives, Université de Montréal

Deaths at sea, violence against migrants and government investment are all increasing along the EU’s maritime borders.
A local Muslim community buries a Yemeni migrant in Bohoniki, Poland, in November 2021. He was one of several people from the Middle East and elsewhere who have died in an area of forests and bogs along the Poland-Belarus border amid a standoff involving migrants between the two countries. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Outsourcing migration control is leading to violence in eastern Europe and beyond

Luna Vives, Université de Montréal and Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Saint Mary’s University

What’s happening in the eastern forests of the European Union is a catastrophic spectacle and the logical and expected consequence of more than three decades of irresponsible border policy.
In this June 2018 photo, a migrant rests at the port of Tarifa in southern Spain after being rescued by Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service in the Strait of Gibraltar. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain’s model for saving lives at sea should be emulated in the EU

Luna Vives, Université de Montréal

European states have the legal and moral obligation to resume search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Spain’s Salvamento Maritimo should lead the way.

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