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How the EU spent billions to halt migration from Africa
The European Union has set high goals with its Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, such as fighting irregular migration, returning and reintegrating migrants, and creating more legal pathways to the EU. Deutsche Welle – with the collaboration of Voxeurop, Openpolis and OBC Transeuropa – examined whether the EUTF achieved them. They found out that:
- Despite the EUTF's bulk of resources was supposed to be dedicated to jobs creation and economic development, only 10% of the funds were allocated to this goal.
- Almost a quarter of the funds – the largest share — went into migration management.
- Even so, the observed decrease in crossings and applications by citizens of EUTF recipient countries tracked with similar drops in numbers for citizens of all African countries, implying that, overall, the EUTF did not have a measurable impact on migratory movements toward the European Union on this scale.
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Kira Schacht | Deutsche Welle
EU development programs such as the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa prioritize curbing migration over fostering development, critics say. How does the EUTF square with the stated aims of the European Union's aid policies?
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How phone companies use our personal data
In the past, some telephone companies have become known for their unscrupulous use of customers’ personal data. While things have improved in Europe, it is important to know what we are agreeing to when we sign a new contract. OBC Transeuropa, El Confidencial, and Voxeurop analysed the privacy policies of Italian, Spanish, German, and French phone companies; their work produced this chart:
 Read the article – in the Italian and Spanish versions you can find a country-specific analysis with in-depth charts >
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Federico Caruso, Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
An article that explores in more detail the research into how phone companies use customers’ personal data, with notes on the legal issues relating to European law.
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In Denmark, large black pipes are about to be buried in a muddy trench, as construction of a gas pipeline from Norway to Poland resumes following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Data repository: Taking stock of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa
Deutsche Welle has created a GitHub page that collects all the material they used to publish their investigation on the EUTF, which we presented to you above. It includes:
- The full dataset compiled for the analysis;
- The script they used to collect the data from the European Commission's AVKO database that is used to document results from the EUTF projects;
- Data for detected irregular border crossings from the Frontex Website, data for first-time asylum-applications from the Eurostat database, data for displaced people from UNHCR;
- Information on the interviews conducted;
- Other links to sources, a spreadsheet that document the data analysis, and a collection of references.
You can access the GitHub page here >
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From the European data journalism community
Training Youth4Regions
The European Commission opened the application period for the 6th edition of the Youth4Regions programme for journalism students and young journalists. Applications are accepted from EU Member States, neighbouring and accession countries.
👉 The deadline for applications is 11 July. More information here.
Conference Video Resources for Data Investigations
GIJN’s first fully online conference featured a full track of data workshops and panels, ranging from analysis with spreadsheets and SQL to programming with R and Python, from tips on scraping and cleaning to data visualization and social network mapping.
👉 You can watch the videos from the conference here.
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