Russia has claimed that “Britain is to blame” for the migrant crisis on the Polish border after foreign secretary Liz Truss called on President Vladimir Putin to intervene.
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A migrant from a camp in Belarus near the Polish border told independent Radio Swaboda that officials from Belarusian services are gathering young men and preparing them to force the fence and cross the border.more
Information about the alleged buses that would take migrants from the Polish-Belarusian border to Germany are dangerous rumors, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, Steve Alter, confirmed on Twitter.more
Russia is ready to help solve the migration crisis on Belarus' borders with the EU, said President Vladimir Putin. At the same time, he rejected the accusations against Russia and announced that the West was trying to shift the responsibility to it.more
Most of those arrested who help migrants to cross from Belarus via Poland to other EU countries live in Germany. This is according to an internal, confidential European Commission document accessed by the daily "Welt".more
As many as 1185 undocumented migrants crossed the Channel into the UK yesterday, the UK Home Office reported today. This is the sixth daily record this year, and is more than 300 higher than the previous record set just last week.more
One of the options is to use provincial governors to introduce restrictions in municipalities on the border with Belarus. The construction of a wall may serve as an additional pretext, writes today's Gazeta Wyborcza.more
UK engineering troops have started reconnaissance on establishing cooperation with Polish soldiers in strengthening the fence on the Polish-Belarusian border, the head of MON Mariusz Blaszczak has said.more
More than 100 women have taken part in a protest in Rotterdam calling for the government to speed up compensation for families caught up in the childcare benefits scandal.more
On the occasion of Poland’s Independence Day, the Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin was lit up in Polish national colours turning into a beautiful Flaga Polskiwhite&red harp.more
The European Commission said the EU would seek to blacklist airlines carrying migrants to Belarus who later try to cross the EU border and would coordinate with the US on planned sanctions against Minsk.more
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow on the migrant crisis at the border between Poland and Belarus, diplomats said. It comes as the European Union said it will widen sanctions against Belarus next week.more
Poles living in Great Britain are looking for confirmation that they will not have to settle accounts with the Polish tax office. The family could be a problem - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more
The number of Italians living abroad and immigrants in Italy is almost equal; there are about 5 million of them - announced in the report of the Migrantes Foundation. It was reported that emigration from Italy increased by 3 percent in the year of the pandemic.more
Migration must be stopped immediately; the entire political class is on the side of the Poles - said today Michel Barnier, former Brexit negotiator and candidate for president of France in next year's elections.more
Due to the tense situation on the Polish-Belarusian external border of the EU, activists from Germany sent a bus to the border region with aid for migrants. The bus left Berlin yesterday. The activists planned to transport the migrants on the way back - writes the daily "Welt". The Federal Ministry of the Interior warns that this would be illegal.more
One of Spain's busiest airports shut down for nearly four hours on Friday after an apparent attempt by migrants to enter the country illegally. A plane flying from Casablanca in Morocco to Istanbul, Turkey, was diverted to Palma de Mallorca after a medical emergency was reported aboard.more
At least 853 illegal immigrants on 25 boats made it into the UK via the English Channel on Wednesday, the UK Home Office said yesterday. This means another, fifth daily record this year.more
The latest research shows that the economy is currently short of skilled workers than last year. The health and care sectors are the most severely affected, informs "Der Spiegel".more
The number of illegal immigrants entering the UK through the English Channel since the beginning of this year has exceeded 20,000. - given. This is more than twice as much as in the whole of 2020, which was a record-breaking year so far.more
In 2020, between various lockdowns, the number of digital nomads boomed as millions of newly office-liberated workers flocked to foreign countries to work remotely. But, as offices demand their workers back, will this be the end of the digital nomad?more
There are calls for Priti Patel to withdraw or justify claims she made before parliament that most people who travel to the UK in small boats are not genuine asylum seekers.more
The wave of re-emigration has started. This is the biggest wave of returns since joining the EU. If the pandemic and Brexit were the main reasons for the high level of Poles returning to the country, this trend is likely not to continue in the coming years - experts say.more
In the third quarter of this year, from July to September, 8,845 asylum applications were made. That was 3,355 a quarter earlier, an increase of more than 2.5 times. It is the largest increase since the end of 2015.more
