Bosnian Premier Zoran Tegeltija has said that Bosnia-Herzegovina can't handle the migrant crisis on its own. The country needs support from the European Union, not just financially, he said in an interview published on January 15.
According to the latest UN migration report, the growth of global numbers of migrants in 2020 was "slowed by about 27% or two million migrants due to COVID-19."
The mayor of the Oropos municipality where the Malakasa refugee and migrant camp is located -- 40 kilometers from Athens -- has appealed to the Greek government to stop "human warehouses" following the tragic death of a young child at the camp.
The Danish Refugee Council is providing emergency relief to the hundreds of migrants stranded at the former Lipa camp in north-western Bosnia. The organization's secretary general, Charlotte Slente, says EU migration policy is partly to blame for the crisis.
A cabinet reshuffle in Greece has seen two conservative hardliners take up positions in the interior and migration ministries. The new deputy migration minister Sofia Voultepsi has previously referred to migrants as 'unarmed invaders'.
The archbishop of Palermo has launched an appeal for a change in European migration policy. He called for an end to pushbacks of migrants such as those by Libyan coast guards in the Mediterranean.
Portugal has started talks with other EU member states about the bloc's proposed asylum and migration pact. The aim is to find common ground and overcome differences, a statement from the Portuguese interior ministry said.
Iyaloo Akuunda is a qualified nurse. She was born in Namibia but she couldn't find work there, so she decided to apply for a job in Germany. Through a recruitment agency and a lot of study, she landed a job in Düsseldorf. DW followed her journey from Namibia to Germany.
A new report from the police watchdog in the UK has warned British police against passing the details of abused migrant women to the Home Office. They say sharing information can prevent potential victims from approaching the police if they fear they risk deportation.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Hungary's restrictive asylum-seeker policies violated EU law. The court said the 2015 migration crisis did not justify the country's decision to override EU rules.
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini on Saturday appeared for the second time in court in connection with the delay in disembarking 131 migrants from the Gregoretti ship last July. At the hearing in Catania, transport minister Danilo Toninelli accused Salvini of being responsible for the delay, stressing that he had the responsibility to decide whether to disembark the migrants.
Some non-UK nationals are facing losing their visas, having an application refused or being deported if they are found to be sleeping rough. That's according to a new set of immigration rules introduced by the UK government which came into effect on December 1. A number of London borough councils have pushed back against the rules.