Between the end of 2019 and 2020, 416,630 asylum-seekers arrived in the European Union. A large number, to be sure, but hardly sensational compared to 2015, when 1.2 million asylum-seekers arrived. AFTER TROOPS WITHDRAWAL, ASYLUM-SEEKER BOATS ARE LIKELY TO SET SAIL… FOR EUROPEAN SHORES … Read More
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson drives a JCB through a symbolic wall during an election campaign event at a JCB plant, Uttoxeter, England, December 10, 2019. – Copyright Ben Stansall/Pool via AP The promise of freedom to “take back control” of the … Read More
FILE – Migrants wait to be rescued by the Ocean Viking during a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, July 5, 2021. (Flavio Gasperini/SOS Mediterranee/Handout via Reuters) ROME – The International Organization for Migration said Wednesday that deaths … Read More
Many Syrian women in Germany are unable to get jobs because of childcare duties | Photo: Annegret Hilse/Reuters Syrians are the main beneficiaries of refugee protection in Germany, yet many are still forced to rely on state welfare to survive. … Read More
ROME, July 6 (Reuters) – A charity group asked the European Union on Tuesday to find a port where it can dock to disembark hundreds of migrants it has rescued in the central Mediterranean over recent days. Some 572 people, … Read More
Bloc’s assessment, published in a budget document, is aimed at reflecting the UK’s ongoing commitments to EU programmes. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – Photo credit: AFP The European Union has concluded … Read More
It has been almost two months since a Belarusian dissident journalist and his partner were taken into custody in a spectacular series of events widely seen as the state-sponsored hijacking of an EU-flagged airplane. Faced with the unprecedented aggression, reportedly … Read More
