After arriving in a small wooden fishing boat from Morocco, eight young North Africans are due to be offered asylum in Portugal. Some say the group had been aiming for Spain and got blown off course, others warn that Portugal could become a destination for migration in the future.
Gorgui Lamine Sow, an undocumented migrant from Senegal has become a hero in Spain after he saved a man in a wheelchair from a fire in the man’s apartment. Now, the Spanish authorities are considering whether to award Sow a residency permit. More than 55,000 people have signed an online petition asking that they do so.
Almost 7 out of every 10 Italians believe that racism towards migrants in the country has risen over the past year, according to the latest report by the social and economic research institute CENSIS.
Over 200 members of the migrants and refugees movement in Naples, Italy, held a protest on Saturday. They fashioned themselves after the left-leaning 'sardines' protest movement.
A boat carrying around 190 migrants was intercepted by the Mauritanian coast guard on Friday, the UN migration agency said. This comes less than two days after 63 migrants drowned when their vessel sank in the same waters en route from The Gambia. The country's president has vowed to crack down on people traffickers.
There were 6,222,000 foreigners residing in Italy as of January 1, 2019, according to a new report. The total population of Italy was 60,360,000. That means that roughly one in ten residents in Italy is a foreigner.
Most non-EU citizens in Italy will no longer be blocked from receiving the citizenship wage basic income, the Italian social security and pensions agency INPS announced last week. Many applicants had their requests blocked due to missing documents regarding assets in their home countries.
A Russian man has been charged with fraud after he constructed a false border post near the Russian border with Finland. Border control authorities said he received 10,000 euros from four South Asian migrants after promising to smuggle them into the EU.
A Rome court has ruled that 14 Eritreans who were pushed back to Libya ten years ago have the right to enter Italy and request international protection. The former prime minister and defense minister have been ordered to pay 210,000 euros in damages.
The French Ministry of Defense announced in February 2019 that it would deliver six semi-rigid speed boats with gun ports to the Libyan coast guard by Spring 2020. On December 2, the government announced they would be halting this delivery after several NGOs filed a lawsuit against the action.
In the latest attempt to ease the overcrowding in migrant camps on the Greek Aegean islands, over 350 migrants left Lesbos and Chios over the weekend. 10,000 migrants have been moved to mainland Greece since July, but given the unabated influx of migrants from Turkey, that effort is not nearly enough.
The European Union’s new Commissioners take up their posts on December 1 2019. So how will the EU’s future migration policy shape up under Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her team. InfoMigrants takes a look at what might come to pass in terms of migration to Europe.