The option of "sponsoring the returns" of migrants staying in the countries of southern Europe is to be an opportunity to show solidarity by states reluctant to relocate refugees to each other. The European Commission wants its proposal to open the way to an EU compromise on this matter.more
A record number of 26 boats with migrants was recorded during the day on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the media reported yesterday evening. There are over a thousand people in the local migrant center, which is five times more than there are places there.
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After the period when the media in France described the cooperation of French and British services on immigrants who are trying to get to Great Britain from France as a model, now the tone of comments has changed, and the media highlight the disputes between Paris and London.more
Another stage of the "Islamist offensive" in France was called by the last speech of a spokeswoman for the left-wing student union, who was called to testify before a parliamentary committee and appeared in a Muslim veil.more
The French Navy was seen by a British newspaper reporter shepherding migrants into UK waters then abandoning them, a UK daily reported on Thursday.more
The liberal Ciudadanos party announced in the Spanish parliament that the mafias were smuggling illegal immigrants from Africa to boats off the coast of Spain by ships and asked the government to act urgently on the matter, Europa Press reported yesterday.more
Greece will build a permanent migrant reception centre on Lesvos to replace the overcrowded refugee camp destroyed by a fire last week, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday, calling for closer European involvement.more
As many as 409 illegal immigrants who tried to cross the English Channel to Great Britain on small boats were detained by the British border guards on Wednesday. This is an absolute record for the number of detained immigrants per day.more
Migrants are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago near West Africa, in what has become one of the most dangerous routes to European territory.more
Italian coastguards mounted an operation on Saturday to retrieve women and children from a refugee rescue boat funded by the street artists Banksy after it became stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.more
The alleged leader of a gang involved in smuggling illegal immigrants to Britain confessed on Friday to the inadvertent killing of 39 Vietnamese whose bodies were found in a truck trailer in Essex last year.more
Mystery street artist Banksy has paid for a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa. The vessel picked up 89 people in distress on Thursday, including 14 women and four children.more
Towards the end of August 2019, ministers in the UK and France jointly pledged to make crossings by migrants in small boats an "infrequent phenomenon" by spring 2020.more
Kent county council has said it is unable to look after any more unaccompanied child refugees who arrive in Dover, because it has reached the limits of its capacity to provide safe care for them.more
Despite the efforts made by the British authorities, the unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants through the English Channel continues. Thursday is the 10th consecutive day that migrants have arrived in Kent in the South East of England.more
Companies recruiting workers from beyond the eastern border hope that as a result of protests in Belarus, its authorities will lift restrictions on traveling abroad, Rzeczpospolita reports today.more
Last year, the German authorities ordered the expulsion of 11,081 foreigners they considered to pose a threat to public security and order, while in 2018 only 7,408 such orders were issued, the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung reported.more
British and French officials will hold talks on Tuesday aimed at agreeing a joint plan to tackle the rising number of migrants attempting the perilous journey across the English Channel.more
The British government on Sunday appointed a special representative to address the problem of the soaring illegal attempts to cross the English Channel in the past few weeks.more
A record number of 235 illegal immigrants trying to cross the English Channel to the UK on 17 boats was stopped yesterday by British patrol boats and border guards, the interior ministry said today.more
Spanish soldiers have been sent to build a camp for migrant strawberry pickers after a U.N. official criticised authorities for allowing seasonal farm workers to live in "inhumane" conditions, the government said on Saturday.more
An asylum seeker from Eritrea has sued the Home Office for contracting the coronavirus. The infection occurred in a room in a building that the man had to share with other refugees.more
In the crisis, companies treated immigrants like Poles. This is the result of the report published yesterday on the research on immigrants in the domestic economy carried out at the end of last year and at the beginning of this year by the National Bank of Poland - writes in today's issue of "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more
