Domenico 'Mimmo' Lucano has been told to expect a new hearing in court in June. The mayor, who has since been suspended from his job, is facing criminal accusations regarding his handling of the cooperatives working for integration of migrants in his town, Riace in Calabria.
French government sources say there are no longer any disputes between Rome and Paris regarding the question of migrants at the border and that the issue is "less central because landings in Italy are nearly zero."
In 2015, more than a million people fled to Europe, making it a record year for migration. But a lot has changed since then. As 2019 gets underway, fewer and fewer people are attempting to get to Europe by irregular means.
A study has found that migrant labor from within the European Union will fall short of the economy's needs. To plug the gap, Germany will need 146,000 workers per year from non-EU countries.
At the height of the migratory movement in 2015 and 2016, Cara di Mineo was Italy’s biggest reception center. Now it holds just over a thousand inhabitants. After it was reported that a Nigerian crime gang was operating from the camp, Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced it would be closed by the end of 2019. What effect might that have on Italy’s migration reception system?
Italian psychiatrist Gaetano Sgarlata has sounded the alarm over the psychological trauma endured by the 47 asylum seekers on the Sea Watch NGO ship due to their uncertain situation.
The number of people seeking asylum in Germany has plummeted since the height of the refugee crisis. Claims peaked at 722,000 in 2016 after a wave of arrivals from the Middle East.
Migrants working on Spanish farms face hard times due to the back-breaking jobs and low wages they receive. InfoMigrants met a Moroccan woman who struggles to make ends meet.
Czech leader Andrej Babis said his country might follow the lead of Austria, the US, and Hungary. Meanwhile, the EU expressed its disappointment in Vienna for withdrawing after playing a key role in the negotiations.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticized the European Union of wanting to take away Hungary's control of its own frontiers. The accusations come after the EU shared plans to expand its external border agency, Frontex.
The EU is planning to take measures to ensure the deportation of those whose asylum claims have been rejected. It chiefly wants to expand the use of detention to ensure that those earmarked for deportation cannot escape.
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) might soon have expanded powers under a draft law presented by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. However, the motion still has to pass through the EU Parliament and needs support from all member states.