Pressure grows to strip conscription-age Ukrainian men of EU protection
EU governments are weighing how to handle the bloc's temporary protection scheme when it next comes up for renewal.
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Austria introduces quotas for refugee family reunification
Austria put in place quotas for refugee family reunification today, as part of changes to tighten migration policy as it implements the EU's new pact.
More escapes hit Paris’s Vincennes immigrant detention centre
Four immigrants escaped from the administrative detention centre in Paris’s 12th arrondissement.
EU invites Taliban to Brussels for talks on immigration
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Sports clubs in fashionable arrondissement fight back as Paris turns public gym into migrant shelter
A gym in Paris’s chic and affluent 15th arrondissement is now closed to the public after the Socialist-led city of Paris requisitioned it as an emergency shelter…
Not happening: Merz reverses talk of 80 per cent of Syrians returning home
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been forced to row back on an ambitious pledge that 80 per cent of Syrians currently living in Germany could return home within…
Iranian female footballers granted asylum in Australia, ditch headscarves
Five members of Iran's women's national football team have been granted humanitarian visas to remain in Australia after fleeing their squad during the Women's Asian…
Algerian President calls on nationals abroad in ‘precarious’ situations to return
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has issued an appeal to young Algerians living abroad in precarious and irregular circumstances, encouraging them to regularise…
150 African refugees fly into Germany from Kenya after pro-asylum NGO wins case
Around 150 African migrants have been transported from a refugee camp in Kenya to Germany.
German church spends €100,000 from collections to help Afghans sue for immigration
Germany’s Protestant Church will donate €100,000 to support Afghan citizens who want to sue for the right to immigrate to Germany.
Germany offers Afghans €10,000 and more not to come
The German Government has reportedly started to offer money to Afghan citizens in Pakistan slated for resettlement in Germany to get them to not come into the country.
Germany’s Merz: ‘Syrian refugees must now go home or be deported’
Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Syrian refugees in Germany must go home now that their country's war is over or face deportation.
Fresh immigration wave to hit the EU as Pakistan and Taliban set South Asia on fire
Peace talks between embattled Pakistan and Afghanistan collapsed earlier this week in Istanbul.
Switzerland bans majority of asylum seekers from travelling abroad
Foreigners who have applied for protection as refugees in Switzerland will now generally not be allowed to leave the country.
Ukrainian asylum applications in Germany soar
The number of Ukrainians applying for protection in Germany has increased greatly in the past few weeks, according to the German interior ministry.
Rwanda to reuse UK-funded accommodation to take in 250 illegal migrants from US
The central African country of Rwanda will accept up to 250 migrants deported from the US.
French court rules Palestinians in Gaza eligible for asylum in France
Palestinians can be recognised as asylum seekers in France following a landmark ruling by the country's National Asylum Court (CNDA).
German programme for subsidised remigration sees fewer than 500 Syrians apply
A German programme designed to incentivise Syrian asylum seekers to return to their home country has failed to result in large-scale remigration.
Dutch judges stop returning asylum seekers to Belgium over ‘lack of care facilities’
Judges in the Netherlands have reportedly refused to send asylum seekers back to Belgium over what they saw as a lack of care facilities.
Germany blocks admission of particularly vulnerable refugees
Germany has imposed a temporary stop on the resettlement of particularly vulnerable refugees.
Finnish Government seeks to extend ban on migrants seeking asylum on Russia border
Finland's right-wing government has asked parliament to extend until the end of 2026 a law that allows it to reject asylum applications from migrants crossing its…
Austria ends family reunification for asylum seekers – but not indefinitely
Austria’s new government has decided to halt family reunification for asylum seekers.
Paris police evict migrant-occupied cultural centre, sparking backlash
Paris Police have cleared out the Parisian cultural centre La Gaîté Lyrique that was occupied by more than 400 migrants, sparking anger from the Paris Mayor's…
UN says Poland’s proposed suspension of asylum ‘violates international and European law’
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has stated that Poland’s proposed response to the migration crisis on its border with Belarus would be…
German county ‘pays €40,000 per month to monitor aggressive asylum seeker’
Bad Kreuznach county in the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate has been paying €40,000 per month for private security services to monitor an allegedly aggressive…
EC to give Turkey €1 billion to support Syrian refugees
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has offered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan €1 billion in support to help Syrian refugees.
Syrian exodus from Germany ‘could cripple healthcare system’, officials warn
Germany’s healthcare system could face meltdown if thousands of Syrian doctors working in the country return to their homeland, according to officials.
Austria ‘to deport Syrians’ as other European states suspend processing asylum cases
Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime in Syria, a growing list of European countries have suspended processing Syrian asylum cases, with Austria…
Germany and Austria freeze asylum applications from Syria
Germany and Austria have said they will pause asylum decisions for Syrians, citing changes in Syria's political landscape following the toppling of the Assad regime.
‘Hundreds of refugees in Germany have visited their homelands,’ report states
Hundreds of refugees have travelled back from Germany to their home countries for vacations since the beginning of 2023.