nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230905-182925-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230905s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230905-182925-0 doi eng 342 23 Natter, Katharina Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9683-0567 Reinventing a Broken Wheel - What the EU-Tunisia Deal Reveals over Europe’s Migration Cooperation Natter, Katharina Verfassungsblog 2023-09-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 16 July, the European Commission and the Tunisian government signed a new strategic partnership on migration, sparking outrage by European parliamentarians, researchers and civil society actors given Tunisia’s autocratic turn since 2021 and the recent flaring up of racial and xenophobic violence. The deal is emblematic of the blind spots of trans-Mediterranean migration cooperation over the past decades: First, a growing reliance on informality and symbolic politics at the expense of accountability; and second, a persistently Euro-centrist perspective that overlooks the dynamics South of the Mediterranean, with dire policy consequences. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Commission EU-Tunisia Deal informalisation Kais Saied Migration Tunisia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/reinventing-a-broken-wheel/ raw object