Back in 2015, employing refugees may have seemed a risky approach for a business in Vienna to take. But it paid off for the Magdas Hotel, which has just moved to the heart of the Austrian capital.
After the controversies surrounding the Football World Cup in Qatar, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games committee is keen to set a high standard on its construction sites. However, since the beginning of 2022, cases of exploitation of undocumented workers have multiplied.
With plans for the expulsion of "delinquent foreigners," the overhaul of France's asylum system, and an effort to bring some undocumented workers in from the cold, the French government's latest immigration bill will be presented to the cabinet this week.
A court in northern France has sentenced 14 Sri Lankan nationals to prison for operating a people-smuggling ring across Europe – part of a continent-wide attempt to crack down on the lucrative criminal networks.
Nearly 131,000 people asked for asylum in France in 2022 – a 27 % increase from the year before and close to the record high from before the Covid pandemic.
Judicial authorities in France charged a suspected gunman on Monday with last week's murder of three Kurds in the French capital. Hundreds of people marched in Paris to pay tribute to the victims. The Turkish foreign ministry on Monday summoned France's ambassador over "anti-Turkey propaganda".
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a second attempt at increasing expulsions of illegal immigrants under fierce pressure from his far-right opponents.
An Iranian whose irregular immigration status obliged him to spend nearly two decades in a Paris airport, inspiring a Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks, died on Saturday at the terminal.
The humanitarian ship Ocean Viking docked in the French military port of Toulon on Friday with 230 migrants on board after three weeks at sea. France slammed Italy for its refusal to accept the vessel and suspended a migrant deal as a result.
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August last year crushed the dreams and hopes of millions of Afghan women who had made significant strides in the past 20 years.
The African Union Commission chief has voiced his shock at the "violent and degrading" treatment of African migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Spanish territory after 23 people died, and has called for an investigation into the incident.
Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time in history, the United Nations said on Monday.