Italian authorities have been asked by the Netherlands to keep the NGO migrant rescue ship Sea Watch 3 in the port of Catania. The decision followed an inspection by Dutch authorities earlier this week.
Refugees and locals living door to door and sharing their daily routines: The Hoffnungshaus in Leonberg in southern Germany is a model of integration that may soon be adopted by other cities in Germany.
Anti-Semitic offenses in Germany rose almost 10 percent in Germany last year, crime statistics showed Wednesday. Violent attacks were up more than 60 percent. Asylum seekers have been among those accused of attacking Jews.
In 2015, more than a million people fled to Europe, making it a record year for migration. But a lot has changed since then. As 2019 gets underway, fewer and fewer people are attempting to get to Europe by irregular means.
In the wake of the migrant influx to Germany since 2015, a plethora of support websites, apps and initiatives have sprung up to help them with matters ranging from the asylum process and language courses to apprenticeships, integration courses and health-related matters. To help navigate the jungle of available services, we have compiled a list with some of the most useful ones.
Refugee status and subsidiary protection as well as resettlement and humanitarian protection programs are not necessarily permanent. So when can these statuses be revoked?
A study has found that migrant labor from within the European Union will fall short of the economy's needs. To plug the gap, Germany will need 146,000 workers per year from non-EU countries.
From teachers to bookkeepers to police officers, migrants seeking jobs are in demand in Germany, particularly in the public sector. Nevertheless, they continue to face significant discrimination in the labor market.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have met in an effort to shore up their credentials on immigration. The party, which now has a new leader, has seen support hemorrhage since the 2015 refugee crisis.
A bakery in eastern Germany is helping the integration of a Syrian refugee. Through an apprenticeship program, Mohamad Hamza Alemam is forging a future as a baker. And growing new roots in his host country.
The processing time for asylum applications in Germany has dropped to six months on average, the German government said. Opposition party The Left criticized the duration of the procedures, which the government had intended to take no longer than three months.
Two Syrian girls, aged 15 and 16, were punched in the face Friday afternoon in Berlin by an unidentified man after he yelled anti-foreigner slurs at them, dpa reports. Another girl of unknown nationality was assaulted in a separate incident the same day.