Melanie Fink speaks at Expert Round Table on the migration crisis at Queen Mary University of London
On 14 March 2016 the LLM in Immigration Law Programme and the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (Queen Mary University of London) hosted the Expert Round Table ‘The Deadliest Frontier: Taking Stock of Mediterranean Crossings in 2015’.
Melanie discussed the practical implementation of Frontex-coordinated joint operation Triton and the challenges arising from it. She focussed on questions of human rights accountability, concluding her presentation with suggestions on how to address the challenges in the context of the proposal for a Regulation establishing a new European Border and Coast Guard Agency.
The programme