Europe’s migration crisis – Five years on
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Ban on new asylum seekers to Scotland ‘could last for years’
Many people-smugglers send asylum seekers across the Channel in dangerously small boats – PA Media The temporary ban on accepting new asylum seekers into Scotland could last for years, the BBC has learned. Glasgow City Council is the only local authority in the country to take in asylum seekers through the UK government’s dispersal scheme….
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More COVID cases and fewer vaccines for EU’s migrants
A man receiving a shot of the vaccine against COVID-19 at a mobile NPHO unit at Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos island, Greece | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/VANGELIS PAPANTONIS According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), COVID-19 hit migrants the worst in Europe and this is the category that is now also the…
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EU states abandon Italy on relocating asylum seekers
Ireland and Lithuania have each agreed to take 10. Luxembourg has also offered to help. (Photo: noborder network) Calls in early May for EU states to help relocate asylum seekers from Italy have largely been ignored. The European Commission had appealed for national capitals to help Italy, after some 1,400 people arrived on the Italian…
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Hundreds of asylum seekers in UK told they could be removed to European countries
Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during a media briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic in Downing Street, London, on January 21, 2021. – Copyright AP Photo More than 1,500 asylum seekers in the UK have been left in limbo after being told they are being considered for removal to “safe third countries” as part of a plan…
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Denmark asylum: The Syrian refugees no longer welcome to stay
Faeza Satouf, here speaking at a protest in Copenhagen, is one of the refugees who has had her status revoked – Getty images When Denmark became the first European country last month to revoke residence status for more than 200 Syrian refugees, it faced condemnation from EU lawmakers, the UN refugee agency and human rights…
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EU leadership comments on mass migrant inflow to Ceuta: “Europe will not be intimidated”
Photo: AP Photo / Javier Fergo Europe “will not be intimidated by anyone,” Vice President Margaritis Schinas of the European Commission said after a record number of migrants entered Ceuta in Spain. Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa. More than 8,000 people have entered the Spanish enclave on the…
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More migrants cross English Channel in small boats
More than 2,000 migrants have made the crossing by small boat since January – Leon Neil The Home Office said 49 people managed to cross the English Channel in three small boats on Saturday. The groups were apprehended just after 08:00 BST. It said 70 people in another three boats were prevented from making the…
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Mapping the migrant camps in Europe
Successful integration of refugees and migrants into their host society is at the core of the European migration strategy – at least, on paper. In reality their current living conditions show that they are far from meeting this objective. MIIR’s analysis on the refugee issue in Europe seeks to answer the question: “What are Europe’s plans for…
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Pope Francis prays for 130 refugees drowned in Mediterranean
Debris from a dinghy that was supposedly carrying over 100 migrants are seen floating in the Mediterranean Sea northeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Thursday, April 22, 2021. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the rescue vessel Ocean Viking, said late Thursday that the wreck of a rubber boat, which was initially carrying around 130 people, was…