On Thursday, July 9, the European Court of Human Rights judged that Poland had pushed back three Syrian nationals illegally to Belarus. Their case has been before the court since 2017. Poland has been ordered to pay each of the three €10,000 compensation.
EU border and coast guard agency Frontex says it is increasingly using chartered airplanes for aerial surveillance. That's according to a letter by Frontex to the European Commission. An EU lawmaker criticized the lack of rescue capacities.
"Traded Children" (Handelsware Kind) is a new documentary from Germany’s public broadcaster ARD / RBB. It investigates the story behind the trafficking of minors and young adults who are being regularly traded like goods from Vietnam to Europe.
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.
Hungary's Viktor Orban, Poland's Mateusz Morawiecki and the Czech Republic's Andrej Babis shot down the EU's planned migration reform ahead of scheduled talks. The Visegrad group rejects asylum seeker quotas.
Almost 100 migrants were found squeezed into a truck in North Macedonia. In an unrelated incident, 34 migrants were also discovered inside a truck in Poland.
While EU countries negotiate with Ukraine about special flights for seasonal workers, some people are coming to the bloc on their own, despite coronavirus restrictions. But they face many obstacles on the way.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic acted against EU law when they rebuffed a migrant distribution deal as displaced people arrived to the bloc en masse in 2015.
Europe's border and coastguard agency Frontex is trying to recruit hundreds of people to its new border force. Over the next six weeks, the agency will hire 700 extra guards in the first stage of a major expansion aimed at preventing unwanted migration.
Appeals from the Christian churches in Germany to stop deportations on special humanitarian grounds are almost certain to be rejected. New figures from the government show that the success rate of claims has plummeted in the past few years.
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?
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.