BVMN Monthly Report - June 2026

August 31, 2026

Monthly Reports

This report brings together information from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people crossing borders.

BVMN is a network of watchdog organisations active in the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Poland and France, including Mobile Info Team, Collective Aid, Blindspots, I Have Rights, Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria, Mission Wings, We Are Monitoring, Info Park, Legal Centre Lesvos, Human Rights Observers and Calais Food Collective. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as Glocal Roots, borderline-europe and Mülteci-Der, this month’s report covers, among other things:

• Border violence and pushbacks by Croatian and Hungarian authorities 
• Conditions in the Blažuj TRC
• Trial against asylum-seekers in Sintiki
• Issues with screening procedures and reduced oversight on Lesvos
• Messy implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum on Samos
• New report on Turkey's opaque migrant "screening and referral system"
• Protests and sit-ins after eviction of the largest informal living site in Calais
• Daily police presence in buses in Northern France
• Tunisia stands before the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights 
• Intimidation and criminalisation of sea recue