Bulgarian police arrested 15 alleged smugglers and detained hundreds of migrants following a nationwide raids.

The operation was sparked after authorities found 40 migrants, including children, inside a tanker truck specifically modified to transport people.

Bulgaria has emerged as a transit point to enter central and western Europe through illicit means.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/19/bulgaria-arrests-alleged-human-smugglers-in-nationwide-raids

#Bulgaria #Migration #Asylum #Refugees #PeopleSmuggling #Schengen #Border #BorderControl #Frontex

Another Brexit casualty? Orient Express to scrap UK section after 41 years | The Independent
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#Brexit
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/orient-express-brexit-travel-b2320650.html

The spectre of walls is haunting Europe again. Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question resurfaces: Should the European Union erect barriers to protect its external borders?

The reality is that it is already doing so – in the last eight years member states have built more than 1,700 kilometers of walls to protect themselves not against tanks or soldiers, but against migrants and refugees.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-04-08/the-fences-dividing-europe-how-the-eu-uses-walls-to-contain-irregular-migration.html

#Europe #EU #Borders #BorderControl #Migration #Refugees

'Mass surveillance, automated suspicion, extreme power': How tech is shaping the EU's borders.

Mixed reality glasses, unmanned underwater vehicles, 3D radars, radio frequency analysers, 360 cameras, thermal imaging cameras, night-vision goggles, special sensors for detecting mobile phones, tracking devices and surveillance towers.

These aren't items from a sci-fi film, they are what's being used on the EU border.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/06/mass-surveillance-automated-suspicion-extreme-power-how-tech-is-shaping-the-eus-borders

#EU #Schengen #Border #BorderControl #Tech

Gibraltar is stuck in post-Brexit limbo with the UK and Spain at loggerheads over who should check the passports of people arriving at the British enclave’s airport.

The UK and Spain, which is allied with the EU in the talks, are seeking to define the territory’s relationship with the bloc and enable people to cross the land border between Gibraltar and Spain with few or no controls, tensions are running high.

https://www.ft.com/content/358e382d-ba54-46d0-8b34-22910dbe7cec

#Spain #UK #Gibraltar #Brexit #Passport #BorderControl

I DON'T recommend trying this yourself, but it's worth observing as part of the gaps and cracks in the world's system of countries an #borders: Unrecognized #passports, including from #micronations, are apparently sometimes accepted by unwitting or uncaring border control agents...

https://twitter.com/slowjamastan/status/1607139303305388036

#micronation #nationstate #geography #geopolitics #borders #bordercontrol

Construction of a planned barbed-wired fence along Finland's long border with Russia will start early next year, Finnish border guard officials have announced, amid concerns in the Nordic country over the changing security environment in Europe.

The fence will eventually extend to a maximum of 200 kilometres.

Finland’s 1,340-kilometre border with Russia is the longest of any European Union member.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/19/finland-to-start-building-200km-long-border-fence-with-russia-next-year

#Finland #EU #Border #BorderControl #BorderFence #WarInUkraine