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
Dr Moonis Ahmar One cannot overlook the religious and cultural aspects of the European migrant crisis. In her annual summer press conference held in Berlin on July 20, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for pursuing a more “civilized approach” … Read More
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hungarian government is unlikely to reverse its tough stance on migration and asylum policies, despite pressure from the European Union, though it may resort to minor concessions, Tibor Bana, the deputy chairman of Hungary’s parliamentary committee … Read More
Migrants stranded on a boat, thirty miles off the Libyan coast as they are rescued by Royal Marines, on 7 June 2015. Photo Rowan Griffith/Daily Mirror. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as of 12 June 2015, an estimated 1,865 … Read More
Pope Francis has offered prayers to the migrants who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea and called on the international community to prevent more deaths. The new Italian government is looking to limit the number of migrants it … Read More
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a fierce critic of European migration policy. Budapest has repeatedly stressed the necessity to strengthen the protection of the EU’s external borders and to create migration transit centres outside the bloc. Hungary’s Foreign Minister … Read More
Despite toughening its stance to stem the flow of people, the Italian government says it will allow 450 rescued migrants to disembark in Sicily. Euronews correspondent Anelise Borges found herself at the heart of the cirsis when she spent ten … Read More
A German federal police report says that deportation orders were up 17 percent, but that actual deportations were down 4 percent. Meanwhile, the labor minister argues that some of those being deported shouldn’t be. More than half of the ordered … Read More