http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/2ed9974995567485 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-the-eu-death-machine-works/ How the EU Death Machine Works Ganty, Sarah Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich eng 2024-02-27 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 border control European Union External Border Control migration law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Since 2015, more than 27.500 innocent people died or ‘went missing’ in the Mediterranean. They drowned by themselves thanks to villain smugglers, the Council submits; accountability for the death toll is a complex matter, the Court of Justice finds; besides the geopolitical times are complex – the Commission is right. But what an accident: mare nostrum, a great thoroughfare, turned itself into a racialized grave. Yet, these deaths at EU borders, just as mass abuse and kidnappings by EU-funded and equipped thugs in Libya do not happen by chance. The EU-Belarus border is another locus of torture and violence. All this is a successful implementation of well-designed lawless policies by the Union in collusion with the Member States. In this post, we map key legal techniques deployed by the designers of the EU’s death machine.