As thousands of migrants continue to be intercepted at sea, the Libyan government that took office earlier this month has said that migration is beyond its control and not among its priorities, as it must focus on reconciliation and prepare the ground for elections later this year.
A top EU lawyer has delivered yet another blow to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the policies of his administration. The lawyer said that the country's criminalization of individuals or groups who helped migrants stood at odds with EU law.
The number of individuals seeking asylum in Austria has risen by roughly 10% in 2020. During the same period, the overall number of people seeking protection in the EU dropped by 31%.
Pietro Bartolo, a member of the European Parliament and for years the "doctor of migrants" who landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, said Europe has the greatest responsibility for what is still happening in the Mediterranean and in Libya, and that it "doesn't do what it should do".
The incoming Libyan prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has said that he wants to strengthen Libya's "privileged relationship" with Italy, focusing in particular on immigration.
Dozens of people joined a protest rally in Paris at the weekend in support of the anti-migrant group Generation Identity. The group is due to respond to a government order for its dissolution.
Senior German politician Claudia Roth from the Green Party has publicly withdrawn her personal support for the EU’s border protection agency, Frontex. She has called for Germany’s withdrawal from the agency in the absence of a "complete reorientation of Frontex."
The net number of migration to Germany continued to tumble in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic was cited as a chief reason for the decline in numbers, which now has fallen to merely a third of the legally permitted numbers.
The Danish parliament has voted to begin an impeachment trial against the former immigration minister Inger Stojberg. She will go on trial over her policy of separating asylum seeking couples if one of them was under 18, and therefore a minor.
After fleeing Syria's civil war in 2015, the 31-year old social worker and Green party candidate is hoping to become the first refugee from Syria to be elected to the Bundestag.
Local volunteer Zlatan Kovacevic says that the situation in Bosnia is slowly going from bad to worse, as helpers begin to encounter corpses and growing violence against migrants. Children are particularly at risk, according to Save the Children.
A German Neo-Nazi was sentenced this week to life in prison for murdering Walter Lübcke, a local politician whose support for refugees had made him a target among Germany’s right-wing extremist scene. The verdict has closed a painful chapter in Germany's debate on migration, but there's a long history of xenophobia and racism that continues to simmer underneath.