In May, Europeans go to the polls to elect a new Parliament. Most people are predicting that the center-right European People's Party will remain the biggest group. But there are strong signs that anti-EU, anti-migrant parties could also win enough seats to steer the bloc in a new direction.
Members of the ruling coalition in Germany are concerned that the upsurge in fighting in Libya could lead to more refugees making their way to Europe. They have urged Europe and the United Nations to de-escalate the conflict which has caused thousands of civilians to be displaced. The UN refugee agency on Tuesday began relocating vulnerable refugees from a detention center in the capital, Tripoli.
Supplies on board the migrant rescue ship 'Alan Kurdi' are running low, the non-government organization Sea Eye says. Six days after the rescue of 64 migrants off the Libyan coast, food and drinking water has nearly run out. Malta and Italy continue to refuse the ship permission to dock.
There's a growing movement in Germany of people sheltering rejected asylum seekers who are at risk of being deported. They call it humane and an act of civil disobedience. But some critics warn that 'citizens' asylum' is illegal and may not help anyone in the long run.
The UN migration agency, the IOM, has responded on Twitter to complaints from Iraqi refugees who say they have been stranded in Turkey for up to six years. The refugees want to be given homes in third countries under the United Nations resettlement program.
Civil society organizations have appealed, in an open letter to the German chancellor Angela Merkel, for an emergency plan to rescue migrants from the Mediterranean. The letter also says German cities and regions should be allowed to offer 'safe havens' to refugees.
In the past three months, more than 310 people are known to have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. This is itself a tragedy, but there is another: Of all the bodies that have been recovered, most will remain unidentified. The families will never find out what happened to them, how they died, or where their remains are.
Greek coast guard authorities are searching for two men reported missing in the Eastern Aegean sea. The boat made it to the Greek island of Chios on Thursday with 36 survivors.
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Dozens of asylum seekers remain practically under siege in a hotel in the town of Vilia. The migrants were transferred to the hotel under the IOM’s program aimed at taking pressure off the overcrowded camps on the Greek islands. Soon after their arrival on Friday they were attacked with rocks and petrol bombs by local residents.
A bus driver in Italy is facing charges of kidnapping and attempted mass murder after he set fire to the vehicle he was driving and threatened at least fifty school children on board. Police say the man, an Italian of Senegalese background, said he wanted migrant deaths at sea to come to an end.
Germany has deported another group of Afghan asylum seekers back to Kabul. 21 men arrived in the capital on Wednesday morning, bringing the number returned to the country over the past three years to more than 530. Critics say Afghanistan is still too dangerous for the rejected asylum seekers.