Head of International Rescue Committee says the EU should increase its intake of refugees to 108,000 each year. David Miliband at IRC headquarters, New York. Under the IRC proposal, the EU would take in more refugees from countries such as Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. Photograph: Mike McGregor/Commissioned for The Observer David Miliband has called on the…
The Greek government has prepared a new bill that will speed up the country’s asylum procedure amid an increase in migration to Greece this year, Greek Migration Policy Minister Dimitris Vitsas said Friday. “We are bringing a new bill in parliament that will simplify, accelerate and organize the asylum procedure. This law will be voted by the…
Photo: DPA A spate of bloody knife attacks in recent weeks has led to concerns about a rise in knife crime. The fact that teenage refugees have often been the culprits has also fired up right-wing critics of the government. On Tuesday morning a 24-year-old woman’s life still hung in the balance after she was…
U.N. World Food Program Executive Director David M. Beasley visits a house in Havana that was affected by Hurricane Irma. Photo: Yamil Lage / AFP / Getty Images “The head of the United Nations food agency warned [today] that the relocation of Islamic State group members from the Middle East to Africa could trigger…
The recent spate of mosque attacks and a rise in hate crime has immigrants in Germany sounding the alarm. Community leaders are calling for more support and understanding from state authorities, including the police. “I’m really concerned,” said Raed Saleh, parliamentary leader for Berlin’s Social Democratic Party. “I can see how Islamophobia is being stirred…
The German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) (L), the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) (C) and the Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) (R) hold a discussion in the German parliament on March 22, 2018. © M. Popow / Global Look Press No sooner has Germany finally got its new government than its head engages in…
Assailed by negative media stereotypes, racism, low academic achievement and social exclusion, the Somali community is one of Europe’s most vilified migrant groups. That vulnerability makes them a perfect target for Islamist terror recruiters. Trump: Somali behind Ohio attack ‘should not have been in our country’ Mein Kampf meets Jihad: How Neo-Nazis are copying the…
Just as it did the previous year, Germany handled more asylum applications in 2017 than all fellow EU members combined. The way Germany interprets the Dublin agreement suggests the discrepancy is set to continue. German authorities decided on 524,185 asylum applications last year, more than the 435,070 cases being handled in all other EU states combined in…
Image EPA The EU saw the lowest number of detected illegal border crossings last year At least 15 migrants, including five children, have died when their boat capsized as they tried to cross from Turkey, the Greek coastguard has said. About 20 are believed to have been on board, and several are unaccounted for. Coastguard…
A rise in right wing nationalism across the European Union has resulted in increased hardship for many Syrian refugees. Seven years after fleeing war in Syria many struggle to build their lives in a hostile anti-Muslim environment. March 15 marks seven years since the beginning of the Syrian war. Few words can convey the atrocities…