Internal EU Borders Investigation

Thousands of child migrants travelling alone at EU internal borders face violence, abuse and are forced back into unsafe situations. Since 2020 there has been a gradual increase in interest by the media and the public in so-called pushbacks at Europe’s internal border. For this investigation we requested freedom of information (FoI) to16 EU member states and revealed that thousands of children are forced into a cycle of violent push-backs at the EU’s internal borders such as the Italian-French border.