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European Network Against Racism (ENAR)

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As the voice of the anti-racist movement in Europe, we bring together 160+ organisations on a mission to fight structural racism. ✊🏽✊🏾

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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As the EU plans deepen its abusive migration control with Libya, notably in the east, 30 civil society organizations including @amnesty.org call on the @ec.europa.eu and EU member states to urgently change course and end this shameful cooperation.
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Thirty-one organisations call on the EU to urgently end abusive migration cooperation with Libyan authorities – European Institutions Office
31 civil society organisations call on EU institutions and member states to urgently end their shameful cooperation with Libyan authorities on migration control. Plans to strengthen cooperation with r...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The 🇪🇺 new anti-racism strategy? A missed opportunity to confront the structural violence lived by racialised communities. A flawed strategy that fails to protect is not a strategy at all. Our Policy Manager Julie Pascoet explains why in @euobserver.com 👉🏽 euobserver.com/migration/ar...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🚨The EU’s new “Return Regulation” is really a Deportation Regulation. It expands detention, weakens safeguards & creates profit for private contractors – at the expense of people’s dignity & communities. Over 200 organisations say: Reject it. @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu @eu2025dk.bsky.social
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
At #SOTEU2025 we heard borders, defence & profit. On human rights & anti-racism? Silence. 🤐 These priorities fuel more violence & marginalisation of racialised communities. The new #EUAntiRacismStrategy 2026-2030 must deliver impact with accountability and cooperation with grassroots movements.✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! ENAR is looking for an Events and Administration Associate to join our Brussels team. 📅 Apply by 14 September 2025 👉 JobApplication@enar-eu.org More details here www.enar-eu.org/call-for-app...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🟣 On Monday ENAR's co-coordinator Julie Pascoet, Vice-chair Dr Toyin Agbetu and Policy and Advocacy Advisor Dr Emmanuel Achiri met with Commissioner Hadja Lahbib to push forward a stronger, intersectional EU Anti-Racism Strategy.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
May 1st came and went — but for racialised & migrant women holding up Europe’s care systems, what really changed? Care work remains invisibilised & exploited. It’s time to treat care as political — and fight for an anti-racist, feminist politics of care. Blog post👇 shorturl.at/fT9Lt
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Care work is essential work: an intersectional struggle for justice and liberation - European Network Against Racism
Three weeks ago we celebrated another May 1st, International Workers’ Day, a day to center the working class and demand justice. Yet, some of the most essential labour remains invisible, undervalued, ...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We call on MEPs to vote against the planned expansion of surveillance powers for #Europol Tuesday because it: ❌ fails to protect migrants or reduce border deaths. ❌ is a power grab by Europol. ❌ criminalises migrants & solidarity organisers. #ProtectNotSurveil: protectnotsurveil.eu
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
European Parliament LIBE votes on the #Europol reform report next week Tuesday, 20 May. MEPs 👏must 👏vote 👏against the expansion of Europol’s surveillance powers! Read & share the detailed #ProtectNotSurveil position paper now: ➡️ protectnotsurveil.eu
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🌍 ENAR at the Regional Meeting in Berlin 🌍 Last week, we brought together our incredible members from 11 European countries for our annual Regional Meeting in Berlin! 🤝✨
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
On 25 April, Aboubakar Cissé was executed inside a mosque in southern France. The response? Silence. Denial. And when public pressure forced a minute of silence in Parliament, his death was still framed as an isolated act of hate — a lone extremist. 🧵
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The throwback to Anti-racism and Diversity Week 2025 still continues! The recording of the panel discussions on "Building a civil society anti-racism strategy" and "From silence to accountability" are not available on youtube. Links can be found below!
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📣 Together with 32 organisations, we co-signed a joint statement on the upcoming Rule of Law report by the European Commission. 📣 🧵
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European Partnership for Democracy @epd.eu · 16/04/2025
#Policy💬 ⚖️ The next @ec.europa.eu's #RuleOfLaw Report will be a key test of the new Commission’s ability to address the challenges to democratic institutions brought by the 2024 events. Explore the checklist for an effective report, made by a group of 32 expert organisations. 🧵
The Next Rule of Law Report: More Action, Less Reaction
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CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"Navigating Regulatory Challenges in Soft Biometric Technologies" Organised by Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch DPA) with Ferdi Konyali (moderator), Catherine Jasserand, Bilgesu Sumer, Oyidiya Oji @enareurope.bsky.social, Stefan Kulk More info: cpdp.be/2874 #CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching
Navigating Regulatory Challenges in Soft Biometric Technologies
The use of biometric technologies is becoming increasingly normalized. The adoption of “soft biometrics” has grown significantly in recent years. Unlike traditional biometrics, such as fingerprints or facial recognition, soft biometrics often lack the distinctiveness to identify individuals but are used to categorize people based on physical or behavioral traits. Increasingly, public spaces deploy these technologies to detect potential incidents like theft, violence or other unwanted activities. 

Soft biometrics raise urgent regulatory challenges. As these technologies become normalized, what risks arise from their use in public spaces? How should Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) tackle this phenomenon? What legal tools do DPAs have at their disposal to adequately address these challenges? Together with civil society and academia, the Dutch DPA will explore these questions during this panel.

Questions to be answered:
- What data protection and fundamental rights risks are associated with the use of soft biometrics in public spaces, and what ethical and legal concerns do they raise?
- In what ways can the GDPR be strategically leveraged to mitigate these risks?
- What other legal tools, frameworks or approaches are available to DPAs to effectively respond to the challenges posed by emerging technologies as such?
- How can DPAs effectively collaborate with civil society and academia to address these issues and foster public awareness?
 
Organised by Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch DPA) with Ferdi Konyali (moderator), Catherine Jasserand, Bilgesu Sumer, Oyidiya Oji, Stefan Kulk
 
More information: https://cpdp.be/2874
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🎥 “This was not an isolated act of hatred—it was the result of systemic Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness.” Check out our interview in @trtespanol, where @nourhenemahmoudi.bsky.social examines the assassination of Aboubakar and reveals how Islamophobia and anti-Black racism are embedded in France.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
‼️ Aboubakar Cissé was executed inside a mosque, in a country where anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are state-sponsored. ‼️
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
💫"We may have fallen into a trap in social justice movements — a neoliberal trap where we stopped at identities and failed to dismantle the systems that continue to reproduce them." full speech here: rb.gy/vav2fp 🧵
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Dr Emilia Roig at ARDW25: "How does a post-racism society look like?"
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
1/6 🚀 We’re on the hunt for a #Consultant to join us this summer and help build our toolkit on #DigitalRights! ✊🏽💙 #ConsultantOpportunity #DigitalRights #AntiRacism #EU
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
At the #ARDWeek press conference, — Vice-Chair of the ARDI Intergroup — raised a red flag 🔴 on the Commission’s withdrawal of the Equal Treatment Directive.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
📢 EU legislation is increasingly being used to target and exclude migrants, under the guise of public policy or security. This is not just a policy issue—it’s a racial justice issue. We stand in solidarity with those calling for laws that protect, not punish, racialised and undocumented communities.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎤 Last week, we joined our partners European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) Network at the European Network Against Racism Aisbl (ENAR) for #RomaWeek — a flagship event dedicated to spotlighting the ongoing structural challenges faced by Roma communities across Europe.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This Anti-Racism and Diversity Week, @amnesty.org, @enareurope.bsky.social, and 40+ organizations unite to urge EU leaders to take bold action against systemic racism and #ReimagineRacialJustice. Read the joint statement here👇
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JOINT STATEMENT: RE-IMAGINING RACIAL JUSTICE IN EUROPE - European Network Against Racism
Brussels, Belgium, 17 March 2025 – This Anti-Racism and Diversity Week, 45+ civil society organisations stand united in our hope for a better future, but also in our demand for action. We call on EU l...
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Tjeerd Royaards @tjeerdroyaards.com · 22/03/2025
The staircase of equal opportunity. Cartoon from 2023, made for @enareurope.bsky.social. #racism #equality #inequality
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Kicking off #ARDW25 day 2! ✅ Join the 10AM panel 'From Silence to Accountability,' live from the European Parliament. 🎙️ 🔗 Follow the discussions online: ep.interactio.eu/lm8q-zez7-ypf9.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Kicking off #ARDW25 with an incredible 🎙️keynote from @emiliaroig.bsky.social, a best-selling social justice author. Dr Roig warned all dehumanisation rests on the hierarchy between humans, but also humans and the rest of the universe. An urgent shift is needed to (re)imagine racial justice. ⚠️
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
3...2..1... #ARDW25 is live! 👋 Tune in online: europeanparliament.webex.com/webappng/sit...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Live NOW from the European Parliament! 🎥 Join us at the Anti-Racism and Diversity Week on 18-19 March. #ARDW25 🤝 Co-organised with the help of the @ec.europa.eu & the Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup in the European Parliament (ARDI). 🔗 18 March: europeanparliament.webex.com/webappng/sit...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Ending racism is a political choice—it's time to make it. ⏰ This Anti Racism and DiversityWeek, we are joined by @hrw.org, @amnesty.org, & 40+ organisations in demanding bold action against systemic racism. Read more shorturl.at/h18eH and follow #ARDW25discussions online: linktr.ee/enar.europe.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
After three years of steadfast leadership, our outgoing Director reflects on the journey of building a resilient organisation that will endure the challenges ahead. Thank you, Kim, for your dedication, passion, and leadership.💜 ✍️ Read his farewell message here: www.enar-eu.org/a-message-fr....
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our Director Kim Smouter sat down with @euronews.com to reflect on the German elections and the recent wave of violent attacks across Europe. 🎬 Watch ⏯️: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20.... #EU #AntiRacism #Germany
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
SIGN TO DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS! ⚠️ This month, the European Commission quietly abandoned the Equal Treatment Directive – leaving you and millions of others unprotected. ✍🏽 Sign and share the petition to defend equal rights for all: action.allout.org/en/m/298c9b72/. #EU #Equality #AntiRacism
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
👋 Greetings from #RightsCon25 in #Taiwan! We're here alongside activists, tech leaders, policymakers, and researchers – all united to push forward human rights at the new #digital frontier. @rightscon.org #DigitalRights #AntiRacism #SocialJustice
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Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) @picumofficial.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
More powers to Europol to "fight migrant smuggling"? Today we join partners of the Protect not Surveil coalition in telling the EU why this is wrong and harmful.
Stopping Europol's expanding digital surveillance against migrants.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
After 17 years, the EU quietly abandons its key anti-discrimination proposal. 🚨 ✍️ Using this as a moment for critical reflection, @juliepascoet.bsky.social, our Policy and Advocacy Manager, asks where do we go from here. 📌 Read more: www.enar-eu.org/the-end-of-t... #EU #Equality #AntiRacism
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 Only 3 days to register! 🚨 MEP @rimahassan.bsky.social is joining us to reimagine racial justice at our Anti-Racism and Diversity Week — and you can too! #ARDW25 📅 18-19 March, European Parliament 🤝 Alongside European Commission & ARDI. 🔗 Register by 16 February: enar.glueup.com/event/anti-r...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We will publish our position paper on the EU’s #Europol reform soon! 🚨 Stay tuned as we reflect on this controversial European police cooperation agency with the #ProtectNotSurveil coalition.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Join us! This is our moment to reimagine, resist, rebuild. ✊🏾 🤝 With the support of EU Commission & ARDI, our flagship Anti-Racism and Diversity Week unites civil society & decision-makers for a bold future of racial justice. 📅 18-19 March 2025 📍 Brussels 🔗 Register: enar.glueup.com/event/anti-r...
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Gianluca Cesaro @gianlucacesaro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I've been working in NGO comms in Brussels for over 6 years and I don't remember ever seeing the Editor-in-Chief of one of the biggest Brussels outlets mocking human rights groups because they denounce blatant Islamophobia. Solidarity to our friends @enareurope.bsky.social @amnestyeu.bsky.social.
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@euractiv.com's Editor-in-Chief has turned the newsroom into his personal platform for Islamophobia – ignoring concerns from 30+ of his own journalists, @amnesty.org, and countless others. 📢 #Journalism #Islamophobia #AntiSemitism #EURACTIV
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Journalism should expose racism, not spread it. 🛑 This week, @euractiv.com published a shockingly irresponsible opinion piece on Holocaust remembrance, scapegoating Muslim communities.‼️ www.euractiv.com/section/poli... #AntiSemitism #Islamophobia #Racism
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This #HolocaustRemembranceDay, we invite you to reflect on the increasing instrumentalisation of this day, turning Jewish trauma into political football to score cheap points. ✍️ By Fenya Fischler, a member of Another Jewish Voice ▶️ medium.com/@fenyachanna... #NeverAgain #HolocaustRemembrance
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Those who bravely defend human rights must be protected, NOT prosecuted! Our incredible member Doros Polykarpou faces baseless charges in #Cyprus for his work with migrant communities. Help us spread the word 💜📩: www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement... #HumanRights #AntiRacism
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Join us! This is our moment to reimagine, resist, rebuild. ✊🏾 🤝 With the support of EU Commission & ARDI, our flagship Anti-Racism and Diversity Week unites civil society & decision-makers for a bold future of racial justice. 📅 18-19 March 2025 📍 Brussels 🔗 Register: enar.glueup.com/event/anti-r...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today, the European Commission is hosting a Holocaust Remembrance Conference. Guess who's not invited? ❌ ✍️ Read more in @euobserver.com: euobserver.com/health-and-s.... @ec.europa.eu #HolocaustRemembrance #EU #AntiRacism
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Guess who isn't invited to Europe's Holocaust memorials?
One umbrella organisation of 30 Jewish peace groups – European Jews for Palestine – say they were snubbed by the EU’s antisemitism “tsar”, after twice requesting an invitation to the Holocaust remembr...
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Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) @picumofficial.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
People rely on smuggling because there are no better options. Cracking down on "smugglers" (often migrants themselves) doesn't create better options. Only safe and regular routes do. Great animation by @regulariseuk.bsky.social 🧡
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
On Monday, our member Center for Muslim Rights Denmark (CEDA) became the target of a violent arson attack. ⚠️ Our hearts go out to our allies in Copenhagen as we echo their message: You can’t burn down solidarity. ✊🏽 ✍️ Read and support: globalaktion.dk/global-aktio...
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
By excluding Jewish voices, @ec.europa.eu risks fuelling the dangerous antisemitic myth of Jewish homogeneity. 🛑 ✍️ Read EJP's statement: jewsforpalestine.eu/legacy-holoc.... #EU #AntiSemitism #AntiRacism
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The Good Lobby @thegoodlobby.wsocial.eu · 13/01/2025
🔔 Join us tomorrow for our webinar 'To Engage or Not to Engage with the Far Right?' 🇪🇺 During the event we will unveil our latest guide designed to provide strategic support to CSOs on how to navigate the changing European political landscape 🗓️ 14/01 ⏰ 12:30 - 13:30 (CET) 📍 Online 🔗 bit.ly/426Zbwc
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European Network Against Racism (ENAR) @enareurope.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Let's be clear. ‘Remigration’ is the far-right’s euphemism for systematic, racist cleansing. #Austria is mocking EU law, human dignity, and everything Europe claims to stand for. Racism in policy is still racism. #HumanRights #Migration #EU #Racism www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Austria's Chancellor nominee wants 'remigration'. What does it mean?
Herbert Kickl, the man tasked with forming a new coalition in Austria, openly advocates the "remigration of uninvited strangers". What does he mean? #EuropeNews
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