Frey Lindsay

London

Contributor at Forbes

Broadcast Journalist at BBC

Journalist - migration (all kinds, except bird and data) @bbcworldservice, occasionally @InfoMigrants, @BeyondSlavery and others. He/him.

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"Women's health is a no-brainer" – the €100m deeptech fund on the hunt for FemTech │ Impact Loop

2 weeks ago | impactloop.com | Frey Lindsay

Voima Ventures’ managing partner and founder Inka Mero likes to keep busy. Speaking to Impact Loop from her home in Helsinki, she's preparing to attend a Finnish National Defence Course in the afternoon. She’s also recently published a book entitled Kevätjäillä (English translation: ‘On Spring Ice’) featuring her poetry alongside photography from friend and colleague Harry Santamäki.
More People Prosecuted For Helping Migrants In 2024

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Frey Lindsay

Figures from a new report show that more people were prosecuted around Europe in 2024 for rendering assistance to irregular migrants than in previous years. Such ‘criminalization’ is becoming more common, as the EU’s leadership and individual member states try to crack down on irregular migration.
Youth Visas: U.K. Once Again Reported To Be Considering Scheme With EU

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Frey Lindsay

The United Kingdom is reported to be considering a deal with the European Union to open up visa pathways for young people to live and work for a year or two on each side of the English Channel. Such youth visas and mobility schemes have been suggested - and swiftly shot down - by successive U.K. governments amid a post-Brexit hostility towards Europe. Now, at the urging of various European governments, it seems the idea is back on the table.
This week in EU policy: Big plans for energy, defence and biodiversity

2 weeks ago | impactloop.com | Frey Lindsay

This week it was reported that Europe had "smashed" its solar targets for the first quarter of 2025, pointing to a major solar boost in the year overall. Welcome good news amid concerns over EU CSR rollbacks, the US-led backlash against the environmental transition and concerns over EU nations missing their climate targets. For this week's EU policy roundup, I've found a few more good news stories and, admittedly, a couple of ambivalent ones.
Germany And Greece To Clash Over EU Cooperation Agreement

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Frey Lindsay

A long-simmering row is heating up again between Greece and Germany over the question of where refugees should be made to settle after receiving asylum in the EU. In the latest development, a Greek minister has said the country would not accept refugees returned from Germany, the week after a German court rules that refugees can indeed be sent back.
France’s top impact seed fund looks to Western Europe: 'A lot to gain in this situation'

2 weeks ago | impactloop.com | Frey Lindsay

One of France's leading impact firms is looking to start building out across Western Europe, leveraging the benefits of its management structure. Sitting in their Paris office, Audrey Soussan and Charles Fourault tell Impact Loop the story of the first five years of AFI Ventures – a seed and pre-seed impact fund – and the ups and downs they saw in the impact landscape in that time.
Migrant Rights Groups Slam U.K. Plan To Publish Criminal Nationalities

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Frey Lindsay

Under pressure from other right-wing parties and commentators, the U.K.’s Labour government has announced it will publish the nationalities of foreign criminals, in what is commonly being described as a ‘league table.’ The opposition Conservative party has welcomed the move, while human rights NGOs have slammed it as pandering to the far-right and worsening the debate over immigration in the U.K.The move had been trailed for several days by the government before being formally announced.
Why this impact team is trekking for a month across Greenland

3 weeks ago | impactloop.com | Frey Lindsay

“Our biggest challenge is we've probably overpacked,” Lexi Novitske laughs, from a room in the small town of Kangerlussuaq in Western Greenland. Novitske, general partner at Norrsken22, an Africa-focussed tech growth fund with a big impact focus, is speaking to Impact Loop from Kangerlussuaq alongside Daphne de Jong, founder of Ven, which specialises in insurance underwriting for the climate transition (think new energy infrastructure, green data centres, green hydrogen).
This week in EU policy: Climate battles, sustainabilty standards and too much tax talk

3 weeks ago | impactloop.com | Frey Lindsay

Each week, we're keeping you in the loop on the most important news in the EU policy ecosystem. Here are the six most important things we've seen coming from in and around Brussels:The news: The Commission unveiled its new five-year working plan for the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and the Energy Labelling Regulation. The plan essentially is about improving sustainability and consumer information. It focusses on Steel and aluminium, textiles, furniture, tyres and mattresses.
EU Declares 7 Countries ‘Safe’ For Asylum Seekers To Be Deported To

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Frey Lindsay

The European Union has named seven countries it considers safe enough to deport rejected asylum seekers back to. It comes amid a charged political atmosphere over irregular migration in the bloc, as multiple countries push to speed up deportations, or ‘returns.’The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, announced its plans to establish ‘an EU list of safe countries of origin’ which will include Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia.