Spain

• Spain

While Mediterranean crossings are down this year, the number of arrivals across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain's Canary Islands has increased almost sevenfold compared to 2019. The treacherous Atlantic route to Europe has claimed over 200 lives so far in 2020. As authorities on the islands are struggling to cope with the pandemic and NGOs and officials alike are pressing for more help from the government, the local population is starting to lose its patience.

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• Equatorial Guinea

"The writer from a country without bookshops" is a portrait of exiled poet Juan Tomas Avila Laurel, highlighting the long, brutal rule over his homeland, Equatorial Guinea.

• Spain

Around 300 migrants arrived on the Spanish islands on Thursday, according to Spanish agency reports. While migrant arrivals on the Spanish mainland have decreased this year, arrivals on the Canaries have increased dramatically.

• Spain
• Canary Islands

More than a thousand migrants in 485 small boats have landed in the Canary Islands in the past two days. Tightened security along Morocco's coast has pushed migrants and traffickers to risk the Atlantic crossing.

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• Canary Islands
• Senegal

The Senegalese authorities intercepted 186 migrants headed for the Canary Islands on two wooden canoes in an operation between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Poland

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.

• Morocco
• Spain

More African migrants have been making the dangerous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Canary Islands. The coronavirus pandemic has been just one factor driving the rise in arrivals.

• Spain
• Morocco

Morroco's coastguard said that it intercepted 231 migrants at sea earlier in the week. They were reportedly all coming from sub-Saharan Africa.

• Spain

Thousands of migrant workers pick food for Europe’s supermarkets every year in southern Spain. Often without papers or proper contracts, they toil for hours under plastic and the beating sun, and during the COVID-19 pandemic also often lack protective equipment or proper hygiene facilities.

• Algeria
• Spain

Nearly 200 migrants have been rescued off Spain’s Balearic Islands. They were traveling in small wooden boats from Algeria.

• Spain
• Malta
• Italy

Italy has given permission for 140 migrants to disembark the Spanish rescue ship Open Arms. Over the past two days more than 100 migrants jumped off the rescue ship stranded off Sicily and tried to swim to shore.

• Spain
• Italy
• Greece

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the Dublin Regulation will be replaced with a new migration plan, to be revealed next week. Under the current rules, the EU country an asylum seeker first enters is responsible for their claim, meaning states such as Italy and Greece take a much larger share.