The Children's Rights Committee of the Council of Europe said that in the migrant transit zones along the Serbian-Hungarian border, there is a lack of effective measures to protect child migrants and asylum seekers from sexual abuse.
Right-wing anti-migration parties in Italy and France are celebrating large wins in the European elections this week but can they and their allies across Europe influence the future policy of the EU regarding migration?
In a letter published Tuesday, the Council of Europe has criticized Hungary for its ill-treatment of asylum seekers and demands the country urgently address human rights violations.
Serbian authorities reported that 600 migrants have been apprehended since the start of the year as they were attempting to illegally cross the border hidden in trucks. Meanwhile, migrants are continuing to arrive along the new Balkan route while three charred bodies were discovered in Bihac, Bosnia.
The United States is to start charging asylum seekers a fee to have their applications processed. The move has been widely criticized as infringing on people’s right to seek protection. Could the same thing happen in Europe?
Two Afghan families were forced to leave Hungary and return to Serbia this week after their asylum claims were rejected. The chief of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has spoken out about the expulsion of the Afghans - among them a pregnant woman - calling it "a serious violation of international law."
The leader of the National Rally party in France, Marine Le Pen, was in Brussels on Sunday to support the far-right Flemish party Vlaams Belang. At the same time, she extended her hand towards Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party and Poland’s PiS (Law and Justice) party. Is a block of anti-migrant parties growing in Europe?
Italy’s deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was in Budapest on Thursday to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The two leaders discussed how to forge a common European pact to combat migration on the continent and succeed in the European elections.
Each individual country in Europe has its own set of rules to naturalize into the country. No matter where you end up, it will take years and some money. In part 2, InfoMigrants takes a look at Poland, Finland, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Luxembourg.
Since August 2018, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), a non-governmental organization advocating for human rights in Hungary, has counted a total of 13 cases of starvation in Hungary’s transit zones, affecting 21 individuals.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban praised Serbia for having accepted a border barrier between the two countries. The Hungarian government erected the barrier to stem the continual flow of unauthorized migrants into Hungary, and Orban said Serbia also benefits.
Migration has dominated European politics since the 2015 migrant crisis. But ahead of May's EU parliamentary elections, an ECFR study has shown that many Europeans are more concerned with emigration than immigration.