Access to Justice at the EU External Borders

The 97th episode of the Rechtsgespräch podcast is a special
episode - about access to justice at the EU's external borders.
It is an English language version of episode 96. From Greece and
Poland. I was on the island of Lesvos to see how the situation
for refugees and migrants has changed since I first went there in
2015/16. And I was in Athens, visiting the main office of the
European Lawyers in Lesvos, an NGO that focuses on first aid
legal advice. There, I spoke with refugees, with lawyers, German
Referendarinnen (trainee lawyers) and with the managing director
of European Lawyers Phil Worthington. I was also in Poland: in
Warsaw, Bialystok and on the border with Belarus. There too, in
the Białowieża Forest, people cross the border every day. I also
spoke to lawyers on the EU's eastern external border, to
volunteers and to activists who are not lawyers, but who also
provide access to justice. And I spoke with experts from academia
and practice and with a politician from the conservative EPP
group in the European Parliament who helped negotiate the current
EU's migration pact. 


 


With this special episode, the Rechtsgespräch podcast takes a
break. Thanks to all my guests and listeners, and to Hannah
Brügmann: She helped me produce every single one of the nearly
100 episodes of the Rechtsgespräch podcast. 


 


00:00:00 Introduction


00:05:46 Chapter 1: to have rights


00:23:37 Chapter 2: to know one's rights


00:31:28 Chapter 3: to have possibilities to enforce one's rights


00:39:26 Chapter 4: in a system of administration of justice
ruled by law


00:58:06 Thank you