Europe: breaches in borders that are increasingly impassable

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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

Germany and, with it, Europe, in shock after a new xenophobic attack which took place on Wednesday February 19 in Hanau near Frankfurt. Nine people were killed, shot by a German with far-right ideas who then killed himself. This attack comes in a heavy climate in Germany, with far-right activists who multiply the attacks. Julien Mechaussie in Berlin.

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Rise of extreme right parties on one side, closing of the borders of Europe on the other, while the European Union continues to tighten its migration policy, for a year, a new illegal path has developed between France and Great Britain for migrants. A crossing by the North Sea aboard small boats.

The number of attempts remains a minority, but it has quadrupled in one year. 2,500 people were thus rescued off the French coast last year, four died. The department of Pas-de-Calais is particularly concerned because of its geographical proximity to the British coasts. Since the beginning of the year, around thirty attempts to cross the area have been prevented, for less than a dozen successful. The result of Franco-British cooperation which started at the end of 2018. Report by Marie Casadebaig .

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Prevent clandestine new arrivals by sea at all costs, Greece dreams of it! Since last summer, it has recorded the largest number of migrants, mostly from Turkey. 20,000 people crammed into the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos in catastrophic living conditions. To limit these arrivals, Athens is now planning to build a floating wall on the sea. Joël Bronner's explanations.

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It is living proof that neither the walls nor the kilometers that separate Europe from the rest of the world will prevent those who really want to cross the sea. Hamza Elawras is Tunisian, and in January this top athlete joined the small island of Panteleria in Sicily windsurfing from Tunisia! A sporting feat that has toured the Italian press. Since then, the young man is in a reception center for migrants and is said to have requested to remain working in Italy. Our correspondent Cécile Debarge returns to the motivations for this crossing.

Once in Europe, other difficulties emerge. Example in France with this worrying phenomenon. All associations are sounding the alarm: there are more and more women on the street, often with children. And for the most part, these are women who arrived in France recently, after a long migratory journey. Juliette Rengeval .

Daniel Vigneron from the myeurop.info site also returns to Europe's migration policy, unable to adopt a real common strategy.

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