It wasn’t long ago when Italy used to be referred to colloquially as “the sick man of Europe,” a country whose economic situation was stuck in the doldrums, whose political system was always a crisis away from collapse, and whose … Read More
A BITTER row has erupted between Italian ministers and European Union officials who have clashed over immigration and the amount of money Rome pays into the Brussels budget. Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio EU Budget chief Günther Oettinger (Image: … Read More
Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, A court in Germany has ruled that the recent deportation to Tunisia of a failed asylum seeker – an Islamist suspected of being a bodyguard for the former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden – was unlawful and … Read More
The German Interior Ministry has announced it has reached a deal that will allow it to return asylum-seekers to Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain’s Pedro Sanchez agreed to a similar compromise last week. The German Interior Ministry said it … Read More
Chancellor wants ‘fairer’ burden-sharing to more evenly distribute refugees in Europe German chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez at a press conference in southern Spain. Photograph: A Carrasco Ragel/EPA Chancellor Angela Merkel has returned from her summer holiday, picking … Read More
Palestinian refugee school boys play at their United Nations Relief and Work UNRWA school yard at Wihdat refugee camp in Amman. [Jamal Nasrallah/EPA] Jordan warned on Wednesday (8 August) that a severe financial shortfall facing a United Nations agency that … Read More
A German official has warned that Berlin may impose fresh controls on the borders with France and Switzerland. With a surge in migrant arrivals to Spain, Germany is hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis. German authorities … Read More
THESSALONIKI, Greece – The Latest on immigration into Europe (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Spain is setting up a central operational command for migrant management amid a summer surge in arrivals from North Africa, which is placing a strain on … Read More
Seven migrant transfer centers have begun operations in Bavaria. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer hopes to use them to bundle and accelerate asylum procedures, but critics say they will create more problems, not fewer. Speeding up asylum proceedings and bringing them … Read More
A rising number of refugees and migrants heading through Bosnia face dire conditions, their way forward blocked by heavy-handed Croatian police. It was almost lunchtime at a dormitory on the outskirts of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina and an … Read More