eu resettlement program

• European Union

The European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has reported that she is working to secure €300 million for the resettlement of 30,000 refugees until the end of 2022.

• Switzerland

The Swiss government has announced it will take in up to 1,600 refugees till the end of 2023. Most beneficiaries will be persons fleeing conflict and persecution in five different countries.

• Germany
• Italy
• Libya

About a week after being launched, the Sea-Watch 4, the latest humanitarian rescue ship to have set sail in the Mediterranean, has completed three rescues in the last 48 hours. On Monday, August 24, the boat's crew tweeted that they now have "more than 200 people on board."

• Mali
• Niger
• Syria

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR have announced a temporary suspension of resettlement travel for refugees because of COVID-19.

• Belgium
• Germany
• Greece

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.

• Germany

Members of civil society taking vulnerable refugees under their wings – that's the premise of Germany’s community sponsorship-based resettlement program for refugees (“NesT”). Now, 25 mentor groups are ready to welcome an individual or a family of refugees waiting to be resettled from third countries. The pilot program, run jointly by the government and faith-based organizations, has groups of at least five volunteers serving as "mentors" who commit to covering refugees' rent and improving their overall conditions for integration. The first of a total of 500 refugees are expected to arrive this fall.

• Germany

The EU Commissioner for Refugees praised the resettlement program, saying it was a success. The EU hopes to bring in a total of 50,000 refugees through October through this program.

• Germany

"Hand in hand from the beginning" — that’s the motto of a new pilot program for the resettlement of 500 vulnerable refugees to Germany. Serving as “mentors,” groups of people commit to helping refugees find a new home and improve overall conditions for integration. In Canada and the UK, comparable community sponsor programs have existed for years.

• Egypt
• Germany

Germany is increasingly making use of humanitarian admissions programs as part of its refugee policy, meaning orderly entry for migrants rather than high-risk journeys. But resettlement is tied to three conditions.

• Portugal

Last year, 86 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean by the charity ship Aquarius were taken in by Portugal. The southern European nation, which wants to fight its demographic decline as much as it wants to place itself on the map as a "humanist" country, is one of the EU's few member states that willingly opens its doors to new migrant arrivals. InfoMigrants went to meet 19 "Aquarius migrants" who were taken in by Portugal in July and who have been housed in a former religious seminary in the town of Fundão, northeast of Lisbon, since September.

• Portugal

UNHCR reports that 33 Syrian and South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Portugal. These families are the first to arrive as part of a resettlement project that calls for over 1,000 refugees to be transferred from Turkey and Egypt.

• France
• Germany
• Italy

The EU has set up various measures to curb unauthorized migration. One of them is offering more legal pathways to the European Union with the help of resettlement pledges. As a data analysis shows, this is not working.