The Italian Constitutional Court has paved the way for migrant families with work permits of more than six months to receive the Italian government's baby bonus and maternity allowance, ruling that the previous requirement of a long-term stay permit is unconstitutional.
The Court of Rome ruled in favor of two young Afghans in an urgent case they filed for humanitarian protection. The court ordered Italy to issue the Afghans humanitarian visas and grant them the right to enter Italy for protection due to the risk of serious jeopardy to their human rights in their country.
The Paris prosecutor's office has received a lawsuit accusing several regional government bodies of failure to provide help in last month's boat wreck in the English Channel that cost the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach Britain.
In Greece, the trial of 24 activists accused of helping migrants reach Europe by boat has started. Among other things, they are charged with human trafficking and espionage. If found guilty, they face 25 years in prison.
Two aid workers who were involved in migrant rescues will go on trial in Greece this week on charges of spying and disclosing state secrets. Human rights groups have described the case as "farcical."
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.
A 76-year-old man from the Italian town of Pordenone has been found guilty of race-based stalking. Whenever he met immigrants, he would do a Roman salute and hum the fascist tune "Faccetta Nera" ("Black Face"). He also sent out postcards with the message "You are born Italian, you don't become it".
Greece and other European countries are increasingly using the threat of criminal proceedings against aid workers and those accused of migrant smuggling to deter asylum seekers, critics say.
A judge in Agrigento has shelved a case against Sea-Watch 3 migrant rescue ship skipper Artuto Centore for allegedly favoring illegal immigration over the landing of 47 migrants on Lampedusa in 2019.
Matteo Salvini is accused of deprivation of liberty and abuse of authority. In 2019, he refused to let a rescue ship dock into Lampedusa, which carried dozens of migrants.
The Spanish government has approved a reform that will make it easier for migrants who arrived in the country as unaccompanied minors to receive residence and work permits. A total of 15,000 youths will reportedly benefit from this reform.
An Eritrean man accused of running a camp in Libya and subjecting migrants to "severe beatings, kidnapping, rape and or unlawful deprivation of liberty," has been put on a wanted list in the Netherlands. He has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Ethiopia for similar crimes.