Roberta Metsola, the President of of the European Parliament, has warned against a return to "the situation in 2013, when the EU did not show solidarity and did not consider life as something very precious."
The European Parliament has refused to endorse the 2020 budget for Frontex. Parliamentarians said this was due to the agency's failure to protect the rights of migrants and its alleged involvement in pushbacks under previous executive director Fabrice Leggeri.
The Council of Europe and the European Parliament have signed a political agreement outlining a 'roadmap' to pass sweeping reforms to the EU asylum and migration system. Their goal is to finish all negotiations by February 2024.
The European Parliament has approved two funds: Until 2017, nearly €10 billion will go towards implementing migration and asylum policies in the European Union (EU), over €6 billion will be spend on border control measures.
The European Parliament recently adopted a resolution in which it rejected "Morocco's use of border control and migration, and unaccompanied minors in particular, as political pressure against a member state of the EU [namely Spain]."
The European Parliament has adopted a report calling for better protection of migrants from human rights violations. A narrow majority voted in favor of the paper, which states that the EU commission and some EU countries overuse informal migrant return agreements.
The European Parliament has approved a resolution calling for stronger measures against human trafficking. The situation for victims – many of them migrant women and children – has gotten even worse since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the resolution's sponsors.
The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) -- which is part of the EU financial framework for 2021-2027 -- will amount to 9.882 billion euros in current prices. The announcement came after a deal was reached by the European Parliament and the European Council.
Various European parliamentarians have once again called for the director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, to resign over allegations that the European border agency was involved in pushbacks of migrants in Aegean waters between Greece and Turkey.
The European Union’s new Commissioners take up their posts on December 1 2019. So how will the EU’s future migration policy shape up under Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her team. InfoMigrants takes a look at what might come to pass in terms of migration to Europe.
European Parliament president David Sassoli has said that international conventions dictate that ports cannot be closed and that people at sea must be rescued. He called on the EU to show greater solidarity towards migrants.
Pietro Bartolo, known as the "doctor of migrants" for his work on the island of Lampedusa, has been elected to the European Parliament. He has vowed to go "to work, without fear."