Syrian asylum seekers have been stuck in limbo in Greece because of the failure of the EU-Turkey agreement, according to a senior UK immigration and human rights lawyer. Taimour Lay says hardly any refugees have been sent back to Turkey, and the EU should scrap the deal.
For Syrian refugees in Egypt, crackdowns from the state and racism in society are a part of everyday life. A migration expert spoke to DW about conditions in the country, and how the EU shares some of the blame.
After spending 27 years as the first doctor to examine migrants reaching Europe’s shores, Pietro Bartolo is now about to take over as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels. InfoMigrants caught up with Bartolo on Lampedusa and asked him about the Italian government's policies vis-a-vis NGO migrant rescue ships and his hopes as an MEP.
The EU Commissioner for Refugees praised the resettlement program, saying it was a success. The EU hopes to bring in a total of 50,000 refugees through October through this program.
Hundreds of Bosnians took to the streets Sunday to protest against potential security and health risks posed by migrants sleeping rough in the western town of Bihac. While Bosnia was mostly spared from the migrant crisis of 2015, locals are not happy that they must care for migrants now.
Leaders of southern EU states tried to develop a common political and economic stance ahead of an EU summit. Migration was one issue on the agenda, with a call for rescue ships to give way to the Libyan coast guard.
Germany’s various regional interior ministers are in the middle of a three-day meeting with the federal interior minister, Horst Seehofer. The meeting included heated discussions, and disagreement, over regional deportation policies. Why is this issue so controversial in Germany?
A thirteen-month-old baby recently drowned while crossing with her mother from Morocco to the Canary Islands in a wooden boat. The Spanish territories continue to draw migrants from Western Africa, costing thousands of lives.
Domenico Lucano was the mayor of the Calabrian town of Riace for 15 consecutive years. He became world-famous for his migrant-hosting and integration policies. In October 2018, he was suspended and forbidden from returning to the town while investigations against him were underway. Now the latest trial against him has begun in the municipal court in Locri.
Danish Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen's tougher stance on immigration along with her idea of increasing welfare spending after years of austerity has been awarded by voters in Denmark. The center-left Social Democrats won close to 30 percent of the vote and Frederiksen's bloc secured 91 of the 179 seats in parliament in an election, in which immigration was a key factor.
Sweden and Switzerland are among the most favored destinations for skilled migrant workers, according to an international survey. The OECD poll published on Wednesday links countries' migration policies with their attractiveness to workers from abroad.
The anti-migrant League party, led by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, had the highest number of votes in European elections in Lampedusa and Riace, two places that have become symbols of the migrant phenomenon in Italy. According to Salvini, the result shows that Italians want "legal, qualified, positive migration."