EU talks migration as Italy, Germany worry over increased arrivals
The European Union's migration ministers meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to handle migrants arriving by sea as Italy and Germany worry over increased…
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Stop giving cash to asylum seekers, German liberals demand
Germany should stop handing cash to migrants claiming asylum there, one of the parties that make up the country's ruling coalition has said.
Belgian court rules against government, saying single male migrants should get shelter
The Belgian Council of State, the country's supreme court, has ruled that the decision by the Belgian Government to stop giving shelter to single male migrants is…
Migrants outnumber inhabitants on Lampedusa amid record arrivals
Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino sounded the alarm on the spike in landings, with in excess of 2,500 people arriving in just a few hours.
Belgian Government set to face court over ban on shelter for single male migrants
Eight organisations have filed an urgent request for suspension with the Council of State, the supreme administrative court of Belgium, against the recent decision…
EU asylum claims spike 28 per cent in first half of 2023
The European Union has seen a sharp rise in asylum claims being made in the first half of 2023, with total numbers up by 28 per cent compared to the same period…
Migrants refuse to leave Brussels squat despite court order
Migrants living in a squat in the centre of Brussels have declared they will ignore a court order to abandon the premises.
Belgium to no longer offer shelter to single male migrants as arrivals overwhelm system
The Belgian State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole De Moor has decided that single male asylum seekers will no longer receive shelter in her country.
Migrants swamp Lampedusa as EU agreement with Tunisia flounders
On August 25, almost 2,000 people in more than 60 boats reached the island. A day later, just under 1,800 came.
Latest Belgium asylum figures show ‘border protection is not working’, party claims
Attempts to protect Europe's borders are not working as evidenced by the continued influx of asylum seekers into Belgium, a populist party in the country has claimed.
Small migrant-boat landings in UK top 100,000 since 2018
The number of small boats carrying migrants across the English Channel to the UK has topped 100,000 since 2018, according to latest figures from the UK Home Office.
UK agency brands migrant centre ‘inhumane’ due to poor Wi-Fi and lack of hair salon
Inspectors from the UK’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), a prisons watchdog, have labelled a female migrant detention centre in England "inhumane" and cited…
Over 500,000 non-Ukrainian refugees now in France
France is now looking after more than 500,000 non-Ukrainian refugees, the country's Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) announced…
UK Court of Appeal torpedoes Rwanda migrant plan
The British Court of Appeal has ruled against the UK Government, declaring its policy to deport migrants to Rwanda is illegal.
Racism against sub-Saharan Africans in Tunisia: An overlooked factor in the migrant crisis
Tunisians are protesting against migration from sub-Saharan Africa.
EU citizens’ watchdog turns on UK over paperwork delays
The UK government has been left red-faced over embarrassing shortcomings discovered by the watchdog it set up to monitor European Union citizens' rights in the UK…
UK government plan to deport over 3,000 asylum-seekers per month
Leaked documents show that over 3,000 asylum seekers could be detained and deported from the UK every month starting next year.
Reject asylum claims of rioting migrants, Flemish party urges government
Tom Van Grieken, the leader of the Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang, has demanded that asylum seekers who start riots have their asylum claims rejected by…
Migration in the Mediterranean: more deaths at sea
At least 70 bodies have been recovered from the sea since April 21, according to the Tunisian coastguard in Sfax, as another wave of migrants attempts to reach European…
Advantageous treatment of Ukrainian refugees sparks ‘discrimination’ debate in Germany
The German Left is up in arms about what it sees as discrimination between government treatment of Ukrainian refugees and migrants or asylum-seekers from other countries.
Europe’s migrant reception system ‘on brink of failure’
Europe is struggling to cope with the influx of migrants and the existing system for housing them is close to collapse, according to a group of Euro MPs.
Migration: Europe’s southern border looks grim
From a European immigration perspective, the situation in the Maghreb countries of northern Africa looks grim.