Italian Labor and Social Policies Minister Andrea Orlando has stressed the need to integrate migrants to fill voids in the country's labor market. He said that legal pathways of immigration must be built in Italy.
A study by the Venice-based Fondazione Leone Moressa reports that remittances last year from Italy to immigrants' home countries rose to 7.7 billion dollars, a 12.2% increase on 2020.
The UK's asylum reform bill -- the Nationality and Borders Bill -- is set to become law after overcoming a final challenge in parliament on Wednesday. Since the departure of the United Kingdom from the EU two years ago, the country has been working on tightening its immigration laws.
The number of people with "migrant background" — foreigners and people with foreign roots — keeps rising in Germany, with Turkey, Poland and Russia the top three countries of familial origin.
French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed the creation of a Schengen Council to "better anticipate crises and react more quickly, as Europeans, to evaluate our frailties and better protect our external borders."
The new web series "7 rue du rendez-vous" is aimed at helping foreigners to learn the French language and cultural idioms through entertainment. The first episodes will be available on YouTube at the end of January.
The UK government has published new guidance about certain concessions for Afghan nationals who entered the UK or applied for entry prior to September 1, 2021. The concessions relate to applications for work and study routes.
A new administrative detention center (CRA) opened on January 17 in Lyon, in southeastern France. Over the past four years, French authorities have doubled the capacity of these facilities which are reserved for migrants awaiting deportation. Aid organizations once again condemn the "prisonization of detention centers" and the "criminalization of immigration."
Germany remains the number one destination country for migrants in Europe, according to the Migration Report 2020, published by the German government on Wednesday. Overall immigration to Germany, however, fell by 23.9% compared to numbers in 2019.
Germany's Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration Reem Alabali-Radovan said that she does not want to treated as a token example of successful integration efforts in Germany. Instead, she wants to keep a dialogue open between the government and migrant communities.
Hungarian President Viktor Orban said his country will not change its harsh immigration rules. His statements come after the EU's top court found the country's legislation contradicts EU law.
A group of about 50 migrants broke through defences on the border with Belarus and entered Poland near the village of Starzyna, police said on Sunday, as the situation on the frontier becomes increasingly tense.