nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230821-182925-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230821s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230821-182925-0 doi eng 342 23 Pijnenburg, Annick Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-0176-3670 Team Europe’s Deal - What’s Wrong with the EU-Tunisia Migration Agreement? Pijnenburg, Annick Verfassungsblog 2023-08-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 16 July 2023, the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement and Tunisia’s Secretary of State of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a ‘strategic and global partnership’ between the European Union (EU) and Tunisia. The signing followed a meeting in Tunisia between Tunisian President Kais Saied and ‘Team Europe’ (European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte). The deal is part of the growing trend to externalise migration control. Against this background, this blog post first clarifies what was agreed before explaining why the agreement is problematic both in terms of substance and form. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Commission EU-Tunisia Deal Migration Tunisia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/team-europes-deal/ raw object