As Italy gears up for the general election on September 25, a right-wing coalition government between the far-right Brothers of Italy, the League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia is looking ever more likely to come out as the winners of the race. This could have major consequences for Italy's migration policy.
More migrants crossed the Channel to the UK from France between January and mid-September than in the whole of 2021. What accounts for these record numbers? Infomigrants speaks to Olivier Cahn, a researcher specialized in penal law and author of a thesis on Franco-English police cooperation in the Channel zone.
A young woman was reportedly shot dead by Moroccan police as she was about to board a migrant boat headed for the Canary Islands.
A young woman and her baby, still wrapped around in her arms, lie at the bottom of the sea after drowning. This is one of the most harrowing discoveries of the recuperation operations off the Lebanese coast last week. Over 30 dead bodies still need to be recovered; they drowned last April after attempting to reach Italian shores.
Nearly 1,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Saturday, while around 200 others were rescued and returned to France. Authorities again warned against making the dangerous journey.
Five bodies of men who had drowned while trying to migrate to Europe were recovered this week off the southern coasts of the Italian island of Sardinia within a span of only 48 hours. The wreckage of the boat has not yet been found.
Survivors and families of the victims of migrant boat that sank off the coast of Lebanon have filed a lawsuit accusing the military of detaining two missing survivors.
Coast guards have reported rescuing 30 people from a boat in the Mediterranean near a small islet north of Crete. More and more migrants and refugees are reportly trying to reach Italy from Turkey in order to circumvent pushbacks in the Eastern Aegean.
Spanish police believe the suspected migrants are of north African origin, and may have drowned while trying to reach Spain in a boat. Their bodies have been taken for autopsies to determine the cause of death.
More than 230 migrants and refugees reached the Greek island of Kythera on three sailboats this week. The island doesn't usually see many migrant or refugee arrivals.
Tunisian authorities confirmed on Monday that they had “intercepted or rescued” 657 migrants at sea over the weekend. The migrants in question had been trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.
The number of migrants arriving in the European Union irregularly rose by 86% between January and July compared to the same period last year, the EU border agency Frontex said Friday. The island nation of Cyprus in particular is having to bear the brunt of this trend.