06/06/2023-27/06/2023 

• On  June 22, the EU delivered two patrol boats to Libya, despite recent reports of links between official Libyan coastguards and Libyan militias. 

• EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson participated in a trialogue on the single permit directive, on the asylum and migration management regulation and on Visa digitalization in Strasbourg (13/06). 
• On June 14 and June 15, 2023, the EU chaired the seventh Brussels conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region”. The conference brought together 57 countries and more than 30 international organizations. At the end of the meeting, €5.6 billion was allocated to help Syrians in Syria and neighboring countries. Read EuroMed Rights’ statement here.  
• On June 11th, Ursula von der Leyen visited Tunis and she suggested the signing of an agreement between the EU and Tunisia, including financial support in the fight against immigration. Indeed, she offered a 900-million-euro aid package for Tunisia. However, Tunisia has made it clear that it does not want to be the EU’s “border guard“. 
• On June 8th, the Justice and Home Affairs Council reached an agreement on asylum and migration management regulation and the asylum procedure regulation of the EU Pact on Migration & Asylum. Poland and Hungary voted against, while Bulgaria, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia abstained.  
• The European Court of Human Rights rejected a Senegalese man’s claim after hhe was  expelled from Spain towards Morocco without being authorized to claim  asylum. He had just arrived in Ceuta after a dangerous journey. 

• The European Commissioner for Migration, Ylva Johansson, declared that the New York Times video showing asylum seekers, including a six-month-old baby, set adrift on a raft by the Greek authorities “seems to clearly indicate that this is a deportation”