Since September the UN migration agency has relocated some 124 asylum seekers from Italy to other EU member states. On Thursday, October 15, a group of 60 asylum seekers was flown from Crotone in the south of Italy to Hanover in Germany.
Migrants often make international payments to support their families back home. Now these important transfers have declined dramatically amid the global coronavirus outbreak.
The appeal of a woman from Mauritania against her denied asylum request in Germany should not have been rejected, Germany's highest court said on Wednesday. The woman claimed to be born into a rigid caste system.
26 more refugee families have arrived in Germany from Greece. A plane carrying 101 refugees touched down Friday in the city of Hanover.
Federal police in Germany have uncovered an unusual form of migrant smuggling. An Iraqi family of four landed at Munich airport on Friday with a private jet. They first posed as diplomats, but then said they were fleeing their own family and paid a trafficker €60,000 so he'd bring them from Istanbul to Germany.
Italy’s coast guard is holding the Alan Kurdi private rescue vessel for the second time this year. It was taken to a shipyard in Olbia on the Italian island of Sardinia where it disembarked over 100 rescued migrants towards the end of September.
A lorry driver has been held on suspicion of people smuggling after eight people were found in the back of his trailer. An emergency call by one of the migrants due to a lack of oxygen sparked the rescue.
The European Union looks poised to find broad political agreement on a new EU migration pact. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said that the 27 member states might be able to adopt the new legislation before the end of the year.
Syrian refugee Bjeen Alhassan has been awarded Germany's 4th national integration prize. Alhassan, who came to Germany in 2014, offers digital language training and other support to female refugees via a Facebook group.
The Aachen Peace Prize 2020 is being awarded to Père Antoine Exelmans, a priest who has dedicated his life to helping migrants and refugees in Morocco. The German award is given each year to women, men or groups who fight against injustice and for peace.
The number of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany has decreased for the first time in almost a decade. About 1.77 million persons in total were registered as seeking international protection in Germany in 2020 according to the interior ministry.
A group of refugee activists is planning to fly an empty plane to the Greek island of Lesbos to try to pick up nearly 200 migrants. The group wants to bring the migrants to the Netherlands.