Pamela Malvina Noutcho Sawa is a 30-year-old born in Cameroon who has lived in Italy since she was eight. An ER nurse and boxing champion, she lives in Bologna and is still waiting to become an Italian citizen after 22 years in Italy.
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 leader of the right-wing League party, Matteo Salvini, will go on trial on June 9 on charges of defaming the former commander of the Sea-Watch 3 migrant rescue ship Carola Rackete when he was interior minister in 2019. He called her "litter braggart", "German criminal", "rich German outlaw".
The EU "stands united to save lives," Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has said. The number of people fleeing into neighboring countries could run into the millions.
The European Union EU is trying to forge a common response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis and has proposed to activate – for the first time – a special directive that would grant temporary protection to all war refugees. What are the details?
The Lithuanian government has decided not to extend a state of emergency along its border with Belarus. The EU country had declared the state of emergency in August to curb the flow of migrants trying to enter the country irregularly.
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.
The Council of Europe has decided to shelve a case against Italy that began in 2016 with a sentence on the arbitrary detention of a group of migrants in 2011. The Council noted that Italy has taken steps to solve violations reported by the European Court of Human Rights.
The top EU court has shot down a 2018 Hungarian law that punished people who help asylum seekers. It remains to be seen if the right-wing government in Budapest will implement the decision.
More and more human rights groups, NGOs and international bodies are joining calls to free three migrants who convinced the captain of a merchant ship to not return more than 100 migrants to Libya two years ago. Meanwhile, a new report Malta and the EU's treatment of migrants overall.
Eighteen Italian associations have sent a letter to the government asking to eliminate legislative issues creating "illogical discriminations" to access the citizenship wage basic income (RdC) and universal benefits for dependent children.
Dozens of Iraqi Kurds and Afghans have sought the help of the European Court of Human Rights over asylum claims. The EU has blamed Belarus for the recent build up of migrants on its border.