world news Frontex chief resigns over probe on human rights violations at borders Fabrice Leggeri's resignation comes a day after an investigative report said the EU border agency had illegally forced back nearly 1,000 asylum seekers in the Aegean Sea. 29/04/2022
Europe News EU sees big rise in migrant entries not including Ukraine: Frontex The number of migrants crossing into the EU this year is the highest since the 2016 migration crisis, says the EU border agency Frontex. 19/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Beekeeping scheme helps stop migrants being stung by exploitative work Arriving in Italy with next to nothing seven years ago, Abdoul Sane now runs his own small bee farm. 23/02/2022
euronews WITNESS "Nothing, there’s nothing": Senegal’s plummeting fish stocks drive migrant surge to Europe In this edition of Witness, Euronews' Valerie Gauriat takes us to Senegal, to see how the depletion of fish stocks which they blame on chinese and european vessels, is prompting many young people to risk all to get to Europe. 11/02/2022
Poland Poland starts construction of €350 million border fence with Belarus The construction of the 186-km fence is expected to be completed in June. 26/01/2022
USA Capsized boat found near Florida; 39 people missing The Coast Guard is calling it a suspected human smuggling case. Officials said on Twitter that they are searching by both air and sea. 26/01/2022
France Migrant dies and 30 rescued by French authorities in English Channel It is the first migrant death reported in the Channel in 2022. 14/01/2022
France Number of migrants rescued off Calais coast 'trebled last year' The flow of migrants to England has caused tension between London and Paris. 10/01/2022
United Kingdom English Channel migrant crossings treble to a record 28,000 At least 28,395 migrants reached the English coast in small boats in 2021, compared to 8,400 the previous year. 04/01/2022
Lithuania Lithuania pays migrants €1,000 to return to Iraq The largest group of migrants who broke through the Lithuanian-Belarusian border at the height of the latest migrant crisis has been returned to Baghdad. 02/01/2022
France Volunteers gather to help freezing migrants cross the Alps "Why are we doing this? Because sailors never leave a person to die at sea, same as a mountaineer will never leave a person to die in the mountains," revealed Paquerette Forest, a retired teacher who volunteered to help migrants. 21/12/2021
Belarus Police uncover 455 social accounts encouraging Belarus-to-EU migrants The social media accounts promoted illegal immigration by advertising the sale of counterfeit ID documents and visas or illegal transportation services. 20/12/2021
euronews WITNESS Human pawns: the migrants trapped in a geo-political chess game In this Witness, Euronews Valerie Gauriat reports from the border between Poland and Belarus, meeting the migrants stuck in a geo-political standoff between Minsk, Warsaw and the rest of the EU. 17/12/2021
View Hungarian Constitutional Court ruling is a migration milestone | View "It is a milestone decision since it confirms the Hungarian approach to migration policy and underscores that Hungarians have the right to defend themselves and their borders." 15/12/2021
no comment Berlin: 6000 green lights in solidarity with migrants in Belarus A collective of NGOs placed 6,000 green lights in front of the Bundestag to demand the reception of migrants blocked at the border between Poland and Belarus. 28/11/2021
France EU plane to be deployed over Channel after migrant deaths A plane operated by EU border agency Frontex will be deployed over the Channel to better identify smuggling networks, said the French interior minister at a meeting with European migration officials. 28/11/2021
Uncovering Europe Why are France-England migrant crossings on the rise? It's believed more than 20,000 migrants have attempted the crossing this year, up from 8,500 in 2020. 24/11/2021
world news Illegal border crossings have risen beyond 2019 levels, says Frontex The number of illegal border crossings is up 45% more than in 2019 but is still below the levels seen in 2015. 23/11/2021
Poland Demonstrators on Poland-Belarus border demand more help for migrants Demonstrators in Poland - close to the Belarusian border - demand that the government does more to help migrants. 21/11/2021
no comment French authorities start moving migrants from camp in northern France Authorities began evacuating some 1,500 migrants seeking to reach the U.K. from a muddy camp in northern France on Tuesday. Police and CRS (special forces) officers have been overseeing the operation in the camp near Grande-Synthe. 16/11/2021
Europe News Hungary move to criminalise helping asylum seekers 'infringes EU law' The EU's Court of Justice found the Hungarian legislation restricts the rights to asylum in an unlawful manner. 16/11/2021
no comment Scores of migrants leave camp for Belarus-Poland border Hundreds of migrants remained stranded at Belarus' border with Poland on Monday as the European Union agreed to slap further sanctions on the former Soviet nation. Amid the crisis, Poland has also reinforced its side of the frontier with 15,000 soldiers, in addition to border guards and police. 15/11/2021
France UK must stop using French as 'punchbags' over migrant boats — minister Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said France did not have 'any lessons to take from the British' ahead of a meeting with his UK counterpart, as record numbers of migrants cross the English Channel. 15/11/2021
United Kingdom Record daily number of migrants cross sea to reach UK At least 1,185 people arrived on Thursday, the Home Office confirmed. 12/11/2021
Spain Suspects accused of faking medical emergency to force plane's landing Spanish authorities suspect the men faked an in-flight medical emergency to force the plane to land so they could illegally enter the country. 09/11/2021
Europe News EU urged to stand firm against 'desperate and illegitimate' Belarus A surge of migrants attempting to cross into Poland from Belarus has brought international condemnation and threats of more sanctions against Lukashenko's regime. 09/11/2021
