Austria's first government coalition between the conservative People’s Party and the Green Party will have ripple effects on a range of issues including immigration. The two parties took nearly three months to iron out their disagreements -- with migration being the key issue that sets the unlikely bedfellows apart.
Save The Children has urged Italy to reform its citizenship law for children from migrant families. There are hundreds of thousands of young people who were born in Italy, but don't have citizenship because their parents were migrants.
Germany’s interior minister Horst Seehofer wants to continue the border checks he introduced in November after a prominent Lebanese clan member managed to travel to Germany despite a re-entry ban. In recent weeks, police caught almost 180 foreigners with entry bans during border checks. To fight criminal clans, the interior ministry also plans to intensify the residence law.
The regional government of the German state of Bavaria introduced a law requiring migrants to respect the "leading" local culture. Now, opposition party complaints it violated the constitution have been upheld.
An association of Italian jurists has launched an appeal to scrap a controversial security and immigration decree in Italy that allows authorities to seize NGO vessels who bring rescued migrants to Italy without permission, among other things. The group Democratic Jurists in Italy said the legislation "violates the constitutional guarantees of foreign citizens."
Migrant rights lawyers want the Italian social security and pensions agency INPS to resume evaluating foreigners' applications for the country's 'citizens' income' The suspension of assessing applications is "illegal and discriminatory," they argue.
The ongoing Brexit drama is keeping Europe on its toes. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's views on and future plans for migration – one of the most important issues that helped the "Leave" campaign win the vote – remain divisive.
Recent law changes in Germany make it easier to hold rejected asylum seekers in detention. But what exactly is deportation detention, how is it different from departure custody, and what's behind the separation precept?
The German parliament has revised the Nationality Act to make it tougher on those joining foreign terrorist groups, polygamists and naturalized citizens who committed fraud to gain citizenship.
UNICEF said that of the over 683,000 asylum requests made in 2018 in EU countries, some 19,700 had been filed by unaccompanied minors. The UN organization called on Italy to pass laws that will help protect young asylum seekers.
Prosecutors in Agrigento have rejected the preventive seizure of the NGO-run search-and-rescue ship Mare Jonio but have ordered to keep the vessel in custody in order to investigate evidence in a case in which the ship's captain is accused of allegedly aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has announced a new security decree that cracks down further on NGOs helping migrants and redistributes ministries' competencies regarding the sea. The draft of the new decree, which has not yet been released, has already set off controversy.