Monday
4th Dec 2023
Draft laws in Germany aimed at tackling irregular migration could lead to the prosecution of NGOs for rescuing endangered refugees and migrants at sea — triggering concerns among human rights lawyers.
EU states may drop their 2019 position on a bill on returning rejected migrants and instead put forward new ideas that include "innovative solutions" to work around illegal pushbacks.
Asylum seekers arriving by land in Finland from Russia will now be required to lodge applications some 300km north of the Arctic Circle at the remote Raja-Jooseppi border post.
Finland's closure of its land border crossing points with Russia likely violates both international and EU asylum laws, warns the executive director of the Finnish Refugee Council.
The European Commission says migrant smuggling has never been so profitable or so deadly — despite a decade of policies and so-called action plans to crush the trade.
The Russian army is telling Syrians where to cross into Finland on bicycles, according to posts on a Telegram account with around 7,500 subscribers.
With 98 percent of the votes counted, far-right anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders is set for a crushing victory in Dutch elections.
Norway has confirmed its border with Russia is so far calm and unchanged, in the wake of Finland accusing Moscow of shuffling irregular migrants across the Finnish/Russian border.
EU legislators are just weeks away from enabling racial profiling and unlawful de facto detention across Europe's external-border member states.
The EU Commission has proposed a platform that would bring together EU employers and non-EU workers. The aim? To address the pressing labour shortages facing the EU-27, but also to boost competitiveness — and discourage illegal migration.
A Greek administrative watchdog has launched an investigation in the Pylos shipwreck that likely killed hundreds of people off the Greek coast in mid-June.
The European Parliament has lifted the immunity of four rightwing Polish MEPs over alleged crimes to incite hatred against Muslim immigrants during a 2018 municipal electoral campaign.
EU asylum laws do not apply on vessels operating in international waters, said the European Commission, in response to questions on the legality of a fresh Italian deal to offshore asylum to Albania.
Austrian plans to offshore asylum to Rwanda or any third country, via an agreement with the UK, is not possible under EU law, says the European Commission.
While Belgium is set to take over the EU presidency in January to usher in a possible Europe-wide asylum reform, its own government has ignored thousands of court decisions in favour of asylum seekers at home.
The European Commission is sending out political signals that its top priority on migration is to shore up borders, send people packing, and prevent others from arriving.
People of African descent continue to face "shocking levels of racism and discrimination" throughout the EU, according to a new report.
European concerns about the migratory implications of the last series of attacks in Gaza have prompted the EU to accelerate its efforts to finalise a broad economic deal with Egypt.
Governments are increasingly trading human rights for short term political expediency, says Tirana Hassan, the executive director of Human Rights Watch.
Details are emerging of EU-funded pilot projects in Bulgaria and Romania to fast-track asylum and fund border technologies, described as essential to help both countries join the visa-free travel Schengen zone.
Questions are mounting on how a Tunisian ordered to leave Belgium after having his asylum request rejected was able to stay, before killing two Swedes in the streets of Brussels on Monday night.
A recent decision on a detained Saudi dissident by Bulgaria's supreme administrative court has cast a long shadow over the legal system for people seeking asylum there.
The EU has unveiled a "toolkit" based on migration, parents, youth and older people, after EU states raised concerns about the impact of an ageing population on public finances — but what does it contain?
The prospect of Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip towards Egypt appears to have spooked the EU commission into fast tracking a possible migrant busting deal with Cairo.
So far, the European response to those fleeing the war in Ukraine and seeking housing has relied heavily on civil society solidarity and the use of private accommodation — but a long-term strategy is lacking.
The EU may extend its naval military operation Irini off Libya to include Tunisia, as a further means to prevent people from fleeing on boats towards Italy.
In its desperate effort to curb migration, the EU has inadvertently bolstered jihadist groups in the Sahel, and now it may be too late. The vast majority of migrants embarking on the Mediterranean have overcome a far more dangerous journey.
Migration, terrorism and energy — three 'crisis' topics — have preoccupied European policy and their societies' view of their neighbourhood in northern Africa for a long time.
The European Parliament is lifting objections to press ahead on EU-wide asylum reforms with the council, representing member states.
Factors such as the weather, and conditions in countries of departure, are much more key in explaining changing migration movements than talk of the 'pull' effect. But despite the many attempts to 'debunk' it, the pull theory is resilient.
The European Commission is largely silent on the latest snub from Tunisia's president Kais Saied over a stalled July agreement to curb migrant departures.
The EU's border force Frontex shared the personal data of NGO staff with police in at least six cases after collecting information during debriefing interviews with asylum seekers as part of an anti-smuggling operation.
Senior EU officials insist a majority of EU states support tougher asylum reforms after Germany decided to drop its veto despite a last minute reported backlash from Italy.
