When Germany takes over the rotating EU presidency, it will seek to tackle the long-stalled reform of EU asylum rules. The pressure to act is almost as great as the resistance to reform ideas. More people have fled their homes … Read More
Refugees disembark the SOS Mediterranee’s Aquarius ship after its arrival at the eastern port of Valencia, Spain, in June 2018. (Kenny Karpov/SOS Mediterranee via AP) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — Lack of space in a refugee center is not a good enough … Read More
The European Union’s top diplomat said the EU’s determined to protect its external borders during his visit to Greece on Wednesday after a standoff in March in which thousands of migrants attempted to force their way into Greece, triggering clashes … Read More
The UN refugee agency revealed that the number of people fleeing war and persecution was more than 79 million last year — the highest such figure since the agency was founded 70 years ago. Euronews spoke to the UN High … Read More
By the time James boarded a flight from Libya to Nigeria at the end of 2018, he had survived a Mediterranean shipwreck, traveled through a half dozen African states, been shot, and spent two years being abused and tortured in … Read More
(Reuters) – Asylum applications in Europe fell to the lowest level in April for over a decade as borders closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, European Union figures show, compounding the challenges of people fleeing conflict and persecution. … Read More
File photo Cyprus is launching a multilingual SMS campaign to head off more migrant arrivals by dispelling the mistaken belief it is a gateway to the rest of the EU, interior minister Nicos Nouris told the Cyprus Mail on Monday. … Read More
Migrant boys play with a ball outside a hotel in Kranidi town about 170 kilometers (106 miles) southwest of Athens, Tuesday, April 21, 2020 – AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis Thousands of asylum seekers in Greece face the prospect of being left homeless … Read More
TUNIS (Reuters) – Libya’s coastguard has stopped nearly 400 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean in five boats in the past two days, the United Nations migration agency said on Monday. That brings to more than 1,000 the number of … Read More
Greece has a right to extend a fence at the border with Turkey in the northeastern region of Evros to avoid a repeat of the tensions last March when thousands of migrants attempted to scale the fence and enter into … Read More