CEPS Ideas Lab – Rights & Security

EU migration policies: Are there effective ways to address smuggling? On February 23rd I was invited as a discussion leader to the event CEPS Ideas Lab – Reconstructing the Union,…

Remembrance Day

My mind is preoccupied by thoughts of the video circulating online of the recent drowning of Pateh Sabally, who disappeared on Sunday in the waters of the Grand Canal in…

Never forget

“Europe is gradually being turned into one big prison camp. We will all end up facing the same fate. I wonder who will escape the camps, since history keeps following…

A bridge between Germany and the Mediterranean Sea

On January 5th, my husband Christopher and I were invited by Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, the Archbishop of Cologne, to participate in the Three Kings ceremony. This gave us the…

Migrants: Crisis or new normality?

On 30 November, I had the great opportunity to give my own contribution to the TrustWomen event organized by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London. I was participating in a…

Beyond search and rescue at sea

“Europa no exit” workshop held by Caritas Italia in Rome 14-15 November 2016 The workshop organised by Caritas Italia in Rome followed the Jubilee for Socially Excluded Persons opened by…

A story about People

London, 3rd November 2016 The event organised by WIRED UK was a valuable chance to re-introduce MOAS activities and initiatives. MOAS is a professional search and rescue organisation created to…