Omar Nahhas, 19, topped the dentistry field in France’s highly competitive first year of common medical studies, or PACES, in June. In an interview with a regional daily in Lorrain, in eastern France, the young Syrian refugee expressed his gratitude to all the people who helped him along the way.
Dozens of migrants escaped a quarantine facility in Porto Empedocle in Sicily Monday, a day after nearly 200 others fled a separate holding center. Meanwhile, local mayors in southern Italy say they cannot keep up with a sharp rise in migrant arrivals.
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Around 1.83 million people who sought protection on international, humanitarian or political grounds were registed in Germany in 2019, only slightly more than in the previous year. The majority came from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
100 vulnerable migrants will be relocated from Greece to Germany this Friday. Among the roughly 24 families are sick children in need of medical treatment, the German interior ministry said.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees passed through Idomeni in Greece in 2015. Then, a border wall was put up and the informal camp was forcibly evacuated. But now, the small village could become a hotspot again, with hundreds of migrants arriving each day in the hope of travelling to western Europe.
CILD, the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, has compiled a list of frequently asked questions about the regularization measure in Italy. The decree is of particular concern to undocumented foreigners working in Italy as well as for migrants whose residence permit may have expired after October 31, 2019.
Search-and-rescue teams have retrieved two more bodies from a boat that sank last month on Lake Van in eastern Turkey, according to Turkish media reports. The boat is believed to have been carrying up to 60 migrants when it sank.
Migrants and refugees in the EU can apply to reunite with their children and bring them to Europe if the children are minors. But what if they reach majority during the proceedings? They can still be reunited with their parents, because what matters is the age they were when the application was filed, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
Amadou Diallo received a scholarship for a prestigious French university. But the Guinean migrant, who arrived in the Greek island of Lesbos four years ago, has been trapped in Greece by an asylum process further delayed by the pandemic. A report in a leading French daily however has rekindled the young migrant’s hopes.
Germany carried out a deportation flight to Pakistan leaving from Frankfurt. It is the first of its kind since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
German police and customs officers said they discovered 31 migrants in the back of a refrigerated truck near the border with the Czech Republic on Tuesday. The vehicle was driving with Turkish plates, and the driver has been detained.