A few outlets, including @AirInfoAgadez, reported that the authorities of Niger repealed (formally unclear how) law 36/2015 on migrant smuggling, which had become a symbol of Europe's unpopular meddling into Niger's affairs. A short 🧵 airinfoagadez.com/2023/11/27/mig… 1 - Adopted in 2015 under Europe's pressure, the law on the "illicit traffic of migrants" was drafted with support from the EU & @UNODC (funded by Italy and Denmark). The idea was to curb movements South of Libya: the Sahara was the new Mediterranean. justice.gouv.ne/images/lois/pd…

For nine months with @Balkanizator & @LudekStavinoha, we dug into the network of interests around the EU regulation to fight children sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. Why should everybody be interested, including our old aunts and uncles? Follow the thread 👉👉 1 - In May 2022, EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson
launched a proposal for a new regulation to protect children in the online world. Our investigation unveils crucial details about relations between lobbies and EU institutions. French on @lemondefr lemonde.fr/pixels/article…

If you're familiar with @Frontex, the EU border body, you know it rarely admits its wrongdoings. BUT they did it for our month-long investigation into PeDRA,a recently stepped-up intrusive migrant surveillance plan,done with the wonderful @LudekStavinoha and @Balkanizator- Thread 2 - PeDRA is a Frontex programme to collect+analyse+exchange with @Europol data of migrants crossing EU external borders. It was launched in 2015, obeying to a populist obsession over migrants being a security threat. Here's on @derspiegel spiegel.de/ausland/umstri…