sea arrivals

• Afghanistan
• Greece
• Italy

Irregular migration to Europe is on the rise again, as the number of Afghan arrivals continues to grow in particular, many of whom come by boat from Turkey. The EU has reportedly reached its highest level of migrants setting of from Turkey since the start of the pandemic 18 months ago.

• Morocco
• Spain

Another group of mainly sub-Saharan migrants has been saved off the Canary Islands. The number of sea arrivals has risen once again and Spanish rescue officials are working around the clock.

• Italy

The last remaining migrants and refugees left the Ocean Viking on Tuesday. The rescue ship had landed in Pozzallo, southern Italy, on Sunday with 549 rescuees onboard.

• Iraq
• Kuwait
• United Kingdom

Migration paths to Europe can take many shapes and are always full of risk and danger. But for stateless people, migration entails countless added layers of difficulty.

• France
• Germany
• Italy

Italy has called for the introduction of a redistribution mechanism of migrants among EU member states once more. For weeks, hundreds of migrants have been arriving in the country daily.

• United Kingdom

A record number of migrants have crossed the English Channel from France on a single day, pushing annual figures beyond last year's numbers. At least 482 people made the trip across the Channel in the latest instance.

• Italy

The NGO-operated migrant rescue ship Geo Barents has been released from the Sicilian port of Augusta. It had been impounded by the Italian coastguard last month, citing technical irregularities.

• Italy
• Tunisia

Following a week of political upheaval, Tunisia's president made allegations saying that agents opposed to democracy were paying youth in the country to embark on dangerous migrations. He did not, however, specify who he meant to address with that comment.

• Italy

According to a report by the Italian statistics bureau ISTAT, the pandemic caused a decrease in migration to Italy in 2020.

• Cyprus
• Lebanon

Lebanese police say they have again prevented dozens of Syrians from reaching Cyprus by sea. Over the past year, there have been numerous attempts to smuggle migrants to the small EU member state.

• Tunisia

Two boats have capsized off Tunisia, leaving at least 39 people dead. The shipwrecks happened amid an ongoing rise of the number of migrants risking the Mediterranean crossing to Europe.

• Italy

More than 5,300 migrants and refugees have arrived on Italy's coasts irregularly so far in 2021. That's more than twice the number of people who arrived during the same period in 2020. Meanwhile, the number of migrants intercepted and returned to Libya reportedly also increased.