dublin regulation

• Malta

Asylum seekers detained at a migrant center in Malta on Monday staged a protest, demanding to be released. It was the second demonstration in a week.

• Italy
• Malta

The situation aboard Sea Eye’s migrant rescue vessel Alan Kurdi, banned from Italian waters by outgoing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, is apparently coming to a head: Malta has agreed to evacuate two migrants who were suffering from panic attacks and had repeatedly tried to jump overboard.

• Greece

The Greek government has expressed concern over an increase in migrant landings on the Aegean islands over the past few weeks. The minister responsible for migration wants the incoming European Commission to ensure "a fairer sharing of the burden."

• France
• Germany

An Administrative Court in Germany suspended the return of an Iranian asylum seeker and her 10-year-old child to France under the so-called Dublin Regulation. The court ruled that there was sufficient proof that two might be subjected to severe hardship, and spoke of a potential for a “violation of human rights” in this particular instance.

• Belgium
• France
• Sudan

InfoMigrants recently received an open letter penned by a Sudanese refugee, Ahmad Gamal, that addresses the European Parliament. After being forced to flee his native Darfur, the 27-year-old arrived in France in 2017 and now studies sociology at a university in Lyon. In his letter, Ahmad urges the EU to make its fatal migration policies more welcoming and humane.

• Germany
• Greece

There were significantly more migrants that came from Turkey to Greece in May. On the Aegean islands, there are now over 15,000 migrants in camps that were designed to hold less than 9,000. Meanwhile, most refugees in Greece asking to be reunited with family members in Germany are rejected.

• France
• Germany
• Italy

European member states are calling on Italy to take back 46,000 migrants based on the Dublin Regulation, according to which the migrants are required to return to Italian territory under the responsibility of the Rome government.

• Belgium

Following the case of the ship Mare Jonio run by the NGO Mediterranea, the European Commission has renewed its appeal to the EU to urgently find predictable solutions for migrant disembarkations.

• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy

Berlin is within its rights to deport asylum-seekers to other countries in the bloc, even if they'll encounter poor living conditions there, according to the EU's highest court. Exceptions apply only in extreme cases.

• Portugal

Faced with a declining demographics and wanting to portray itself as a "humanist" country, Portugal is open to attracting newcomers to its territory. To that end, the country actively participates in European resettlement programs and is favorably inclined toward requests to accept migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by humanitarian vessels. But it is also getting an increasing number of requests for "spontaneous" asylum, filed by people who arrived in Portugal by their own means. For these people, the course is often more complicated. InfoMigrants went to meet them in the reception center in Bobadela, a suburb of Lisbon.

• Spain

A ruling by the Spanish Superior Court of Justice ordered asylum seekers who had returned to Spain under the Dublin Regulation to be newly admitted to the country's migrant reception system.

• Germany

Most of the asylum-seekers that were deported were sent to Italy. The deportations follow the EU's Dublin III rule, which states that applications must be processed in the first country of arrival.