The head of an international aid organization says Europe has applied "double standards" on migrants. The IFRC chief Francesco Rocca said people fleeing countries in Africa or the Middle East were not given the same welcome as those from Ukraine.
Greece has faced accusations of illegally pushing asylum seekers back to Turkey for years. Turkish activist fleeing persecution are reportedly among the victims of these pushbacks, facing increasingly hostile Greek border authorities.
The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday announced the allocation for 2022 of a billion and a half euros by the EU for Syrians in Syria as well as refugees and the communities hosting them in the region.
Over 1,200 unaccompanied migrant children in Greece have been relocated across 13 European countries as a result of Greece's Voluntary Relocation Program, which now counts two years of operations. Meanwhile, the number of unaccompanied children who sought asylum in the European Union in 2021 jumped by 72%.
After ten days at sea the Ocean Viking rescue ship has docked in Sicily. As the migrants on board were brought to safety, rescue workers expressed frustration at the EU's failure to coordinate the disembarkation.
A migration expert in Germany has sharply criticized plans by Denmark to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda following a similar move by Britain. He added that the policy would probably be rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.
Frontex is losing credibility following further allegations it was involved in pushbacks. Now, the private sea rescue organization Sea-Watch is alleging that the European border agency is implicated in so-called pullbacks near Malta as well, launching legal proceedings at the EU Court in Luxembourg.
The European Commission has launched a project for a platform to facilitate access to the labor market for Ukrainian refugees.The initiative is expected to be up and running by summer.
For tens of thousands of asylum seekers, living in Cyprus is a daily struggle. Isiaka and Christelle are just two out of thousands of migrants and refugees battling with meeting basic needs ranging from housing to employment to having food to eat on the small Mediterranean island, as more migrants keep arriving.
The number of people trying to cross the border irregularly between Belarus and Poland is rising again. Polish officials say they are taking a new route from the Middle East through Russia to reach the EU.
Migrants in the Balkans are reportedly exploring new routes to enter the EU, as the number of irregular border crossings from the Una-Sana Canton in the west of Bosnia and Herzegovina into Croatia has been decreasing.
Fight irregular migration, return and reintegrate migrants, create more legal pathways to the EU: The European Union set high goals with its Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. DW examines whether the EUTF achieved them.