Europe steps up crackdown on refugees in Mediterranean

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Macron's plan would create special task forces, intensify controls in the Mediterranean, and reinforce the European border agency Frontex.

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Anyone believing there is a limit to the SPD’s rightward shift in the federal election campaign was disabused of this notion on Sunday. The party is now openly agitating against refugees.

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Macron is planning attacks on the democratic rights of immigrants in France, and a network of concentration camps to keep refugees in Africa from arriving in Europe.

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By bullying aid organisations, establishing detention camps in North Africa, and deploying troops, the European powers intend to stem the flow of refugees.

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