As EU ministers discuss whether to allow the bloc's newest members into the Schengen zone, a coalition of NGOs has published a report detailing how thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are facing an "unprecedented rise in violence" at the EU's border. The 3000-plus page "Black Book of Pushbacks", compiled by the Border Violence Monitoring Network, says the documented cases of violence are not sporadic actions - that they stem from "Europe-wide systems that have been reinforced from the very top".
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