Imigracja

More than 800 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK on Saturday - setting a new record for crossings in a single day. The Home Office said nearly 200 people making the trip were also stopped by the French authorities.more

Later this week, the construction of a fence on the Polish-Belarusian border will begin; it will be built of barbed wire and will be 2.5 meters high - informed Mariusz Błaszczak, the head of the Polish Ministry of National Defense, who yesterday visited the Polish-Belarusian border near the village of Kopczany (Podlasie).more

The current crisis on the borders with Belarus was planned and systematically organized by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, emphasized the prime ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the statement issued. They also called on the Belarusian authorities to stop actions leading to escalating tensions.more

"Polish borders must be tight and well-protected; protection is not based on anti-humanitarian propaganda, but on efficient action," PO leader Donald Tusk wrote on Twitter yesterday, referring to the deteriorating situation of a group of refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border. He added that "under PiS, the Polish border was crossed by a record number of illegal migrants."more

A referendum on migration could be linked to parliamentary elections, believe some politicians on the French right, including Republican (LR) politicians. If the right wing came to power in 2022, it would immediately put immigration at the center of its priorities, reports the daily Le Figaro.more

A five-year-old Afghan refugee who fell to his death from a Sheffield hotel window has been identified by police. It is reported Mohammed Munib Majeedi fell from a ninth-floor room where he was staying with his mother.more

Despite the pandemic, Poland is attractive to Ukrainians. At the end of April this year a record number of foreigners were registered with social insurance - 780 thousand; the largest increase in comparison to March was in the case of Ukrainians, informed the Polish Economic Institute.more

The Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Loefven, in an interview with the daily "Dagens Nyheter" announced that his country would not accept as many immigrants as in 2015, which was record-breaking in this respect.more

We should prevent Afghans from diverting towards the EU on unsafe routes taken by smugglers, said Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson.more

Almost two-thirds of Germans express concern about the possible new wave of refugees and a repeat of the situation from 2015, the Tagesspiegel daily reports today.more

A total of 144,100 more applications filed by EU nationals for the United Kingdom’s EU Settlement Scheme have been concluded in July, data revealed by the UK Home Office show.more

Nearly 600 people have crossed the English Channel on a single day this week, setting a new daily record. At least 592 people made the dangerous crossing on Thursday, with at least 155 intercepted by French authorities and returned to the continent, Home Office figures show.more

EU citizens living in the UK had until 30 June to apply to stay in the country or lose their rights, under post-Brexit rules introduced by the government.more

There is a shortage of employees in the hotel and catering industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, incl. people commuting to work from Poland. Their number has dropped by half compared to the time before the pandemic. The Association of Vorpommern entrepreneurs would like to bring employees from Ukraine.more

A Home Office deportation flight left for Jamaica overnight with just seven people on board, after last-minute legal challenges. The flight, which is understood to have taken off from Stansted Airport in Essex just before 01:30 BST, was originally meant to deport 50 people.more

Over 40,000 British students will be able to go to universities abroad in the new academic year thanks to the Turing program, which will replace them with the EU Erasmus student exchange program, announced the British Ministry of Education.more

British artists will be able to perform in most European Union countries without having to apply for a visa or a work permit, the government in London said.more

A record 482 migrants crossed the English Channel on Wednesday, the Home Office has said. UK authorities dealt with 21 boats, while their French counterparts intercepted another 246 people in eight vessels before they could get to Britain.more

From today, the documents issued to citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland Member States and their family members will have a new format analogous to the residence card, the Office for Foreigners informed yesterday. Thanks to this solution, they are to be better protected, standardized and more durable.more

The Home Office spent thousands in taxpayer cash to set up a ‘misleading’ website to deter asylum seekers from travelling to the UK, warning them ‘we will return you’.more

In June, retirement insurance at ZUS was paid by 818,000 foreigners, and health insurance by as much as 863,000. Both numbers are record-breaking and mean that among all the insured foreigners constitute over 5% of the group in Poland - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

Irena Jendrycha was liberated from an Austrian concentration camp just 12 minutes before they were to be murdered. She has lived in Dundee most of her adult life but still has not been told whether or not she has a 'right' to stay in the UK.more

The lifeboat crews that help pull illegal immigrants out of the Channel waters are doing so for humanitarian reasons and do not deserve to be insulted, said Mark Dowie, head of British water rescue NGO RNLI.more

Mass migratory movements of people from completely different cultural backgrounds, people with little or no education have led to huge problems in Europe, said Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Chancellor.more

About 6 million EU citizens have applied for settled status in Britain - far more the 3.5 million to 4.1 million forecast by the Home Office.more