In 2018, several European countries agreed to set up a "solidarity mechanism" with the aim of fairly redistributing migrants, rescued in the Mediterranean, among them. InfoMigrants takes a closer look at the scheme's function and limitations.
Chancellor Merkel, in Davos, has said the conflict in Libya must be stopped before another refugee crisis begins. She added that a global decrease in diplomacy was making regions like the Sahel more unstable.
British MPs approved the latest Brexit bill, but rejected five amendments. They included provisions to reunite child refugees with families already in the UK, and guaranteed residence for millions of EU citizens.
68 asylum seekers have been sent from Rome to Paris as part of an EU-wide relocation program. Since September 2019, some 464 people have been redistributed from Italy to other EU countries.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the right-wing La Lega (The League) party hasn’t been in government since summer 2019. But the laws on migration and security which he pushed through in his name are still in effect. Will that change now that the current government has been in power for five months?
Hundreds of migrants who fled the hell of the detention centers in Tripoli have occupied the premises of the GDF, the UN transit center for evacuating vulnerable and identified refugees out of Libya, for months. They say they are now being kicked out of the center and pushed into a dangerous and conflict-torn city. The UN says the departures are voluntary.
The European Union has decreased its Mediterranean rescue efforts, while Greece and Italy are struggling to deal with displaced people who have already arrived. German cities are demanding permission to take action.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR has published a series of "ambitious but achievable" recommendations for the Croatian and German presidencies of the EU Council to make 2020 "the year of change for robust refugee protection," according to a statement published on January 9.
Tunisia is preparing to accommodate a possible new influx of refugees fleeing the war in Libya and has chosen the site of Fatnassia to receive migrants who arrive.
The war in Syria. The rise (and fall) of the Islamic State. The EU-Turkey deal. The Brexit referendum. InfoMigrants takes a look at events and decisions that significantly shaped the movement of migrants and refugees in(to) the European Union in the 2010s.
Many of the thousands of refugees fleeing persecution and violent conflict in Iraq in recent years have migrated to neighboring Jordan. But the Middle Eastern country is struggling to cope with this influx. The Catholic Church is trying to alleviate at least some of the pressure on the desert nation.
Seven European cities have come together to create the "Border Towns and Islands Network" (BTIN) to promote cooperation in migration policies. The network is aimed at sponsoring collaboration and reciprocal support among border cities and islands.