Communications Officer
Human rights, migration, war crimes, international law, democracy, political movements
Spanish, Catalan, English, German
Mireia Faro Sarrats is the communications officer at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Previously, she worked as a communications officer at the European Institute of the Mediterranean, a public affairs officer at the United States Consulate General in Barcelona, and in the communications department of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna. Faro was also an intern at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna and at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. She conducts research mainly in the areas of human rights and migration.
She holds a BA degree in journalism from the Universitat Ramon Llull – Blanquerna and an MA in human rights, democracy and globalisation, from the Open University of Catalunya.
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From the elections in Europe and the United States, to developments in Ukraine and the Middle East, check out ECFR’s most popular reads of 2024
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To ensure sustainable support for Ukrainian refugees, Europeans need to find ways to overcome anxieties about other migrant groups
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Hungary might be part of the EU, but it continues to act against the values and principles for which the bloc stands
Mireia Faro Sarrats on Hungary withdrawing from the ICC
National elections are next year and everything that is said or decided is already part of the election campaign
Mireia Faro on Germany’s decision to tighten border controls
Instead of trying to improve asylum and integration systems, mainstream parties are imitating the right wing, like the Rwanda Bill
Mireia Faro on the Germany’s new border control policy
This will likely set a precedent for other EU member states that are not very supportive of migration, such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, to claim some kind of security threat
Mireia Faro Sarrats on Germany´s new border control policy
I share the concern of many experts that half of the eligible voters will opt for abstention, resulting in a low turnout
Mireia Faro analyses the importance of the European elections
