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An algorithm driven world is dehumanising – but by understanding this we can call for a more equitable and human use of data.
A joint Greek-US military exercise gets under way near Crete.
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Adding the eastern Mediterranean into the mix complicates matters, though. The two sides appear to have opened Pandora’s box.
Turkey’s Oruç Reis vessel has been carrying out seismic work in contested waters.
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With France on manoeuvres and Germany struggling to play peacemaker, Turkish-Greek relations are close to 1974 lows.
Migrants rescued at sea in early July on board the Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean.
Flavio Gasperini/ SOS Mediterranee
Official statistics record 377 deaths in the Mediterranean in 2020, but the true figure is likely to be much higher.
A brown Mediterranean grouper. We don’t see it on the picture, but it hosts many parasites!
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Mediterranean groupers are not alone: they are home to a wide variety of parasites.
Fortress Europe: Malta declared its harbours unsafe for migrants to disembark during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Migrants have been left to die in the Mediterranean as Italy and Malta declared their harbours ‘unsafe’ in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
An Italian official gestures at migrants waiting to disembark in the Sicilian port of Catania in August 2018.
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Research in Sicily finds that anti-immigration policies don’t slow the flow of immigrants, but do hurt local residents in communities where migrants first arrive.
On Samos, new arrivals set up camp where they can.
Gemma Bird
The new Greek government is putting in place new measures to stop the flow of refugees crossing the Aegan Sea.
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)
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.
A rig off the coast of Cyprus explores the region’s gas potential.
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Russia’s influential position as Europe’s main supplier of natural gas is under threat from new discoveries.
The Sea-Watch 3 search and rescue ship before it finally docked in Lampedusa.
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Carola Rackete, captain of an NGO search and rescue ship, was arrested by Italian authorities when landing in Italy. She isn’t the first to be criminalised for trying to save people at sea.
Migrants disembark back in Libya after being rescued in 2017.
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How the ‘refoulement’ industry between Europe and Libya works.
The Aquarius rescue ship flying the Gibraltar flag enters the harbour in Valletta, Malta in August.
Domenic Aquilina/EPA
Gibraltar’s decision to terminate permission for the Aquarius to conduct operations in the Mediterranean is the latest example of national politics undermining rescue at sea.
The Sea-Watch 3 vessel in Malta in late June 2018.
Vicki Squire
The Sea-Watch 3 vessel has been prevented from leaving Malta to continue its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
A 16th century chart of Europe and North Africa.
Luis Texieira, Portolan Chart, Lisbon, ca. 1600 via Wikimedia Commons.
Migration is central to Mediterranean history and people have always moved between its two shores.
Could a North-African migrant become the Prime minister of a European country in the 21st century? In the 19th century, a Greek slave rose to the highest ranks in Tunis. The Bey of Tunis, Muhammad Sādiq Bāšā-Bey, greets Napoleon III in Algiers, on 20 September 1860.
A. de Belle Ksar Saïd Museum
When we think of migrants, we think of them crossing the Mediterranean to come to Europe. Yet 200 years ago, many did it the other way.
Migrants are being rescued by members of the “Proactiva open arms” NGO, off the coast of the Island of Lesbos (Greece).
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Accused of cooperating with smugglers, NGOs defend migrants’ right to life and point to the inadequate policies of European states.
A boat full of migrants is rescued by the Italian Navy in October 2015.
ITALIAN NAVY PRESS OFFICE / HAN /EPA
There is an assumption that migrants are pulled to Europe as a ‘destination’ of choice. New research shows that often isn’t the case.
Crossing the Mediterranean is dangerous, but so is war-torn Libya.
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There are fundamental differences between Libya and Turkey, when it comes to returning migrants.
A Moroccan migrant rescued off the coast of Spain in September 2016.
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A military option will be a lucrative one for smugglers.