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Ursula von der Leyen to visit Lampedusa amid surge in migrant arrivals

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen will visit the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday after 8,500 migrants arrived by boat in three days, an EU official announced.

Italy

Italy: Lampedusa reels after thousands of migrants arrived in 24 hours

The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is often the first point of arrival for people seeking asylum or looking to keep moving north to other European countries.

Poland

Poland just experienced its biggest migrant hunger strike

“It was one of the biggest strikes of this kind, if not the biggest strike in detention centres in Poland,” attorney-at-law Zuzanna Kaciupska told Euronews.

World News

Asylum applications surge 30% so far in 2023 across EU

This year so far Germany has received the most applications: 30% of the total, almost twice as many as Spain (17%) and France (16%).

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Italy

Dozens evicted from their home in Milan which will become a mosque

The mosque, the first to be built legally in the Italian city, will replace the former public baths which for seven years have been occupied by a group of migrants who can't afford a home in Milan's rental market.

Greece

Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfires

As the popular belief spreads that migrants are to blame for the fires that have ravaged Greece, self-organised civilian 'militias' are hunting them down.

Niger

Thousands of migrants who tried to reach Europe caught in Niger's coup

Sahr John Yambasu watched people die at sea and abandoned his journey but is among thousands who can't return home as borders closed following the coup in Niger.

Italy

Who should save migrants at sea?

The number of migrants arriving on Italy's shores has more than doubled this year, forcing the government to ask for help from the very NGOs it has tried to stop.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi border guards guilty of mass killings of migrants, says HRW

Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the border were killed by Saudi guards between March 2022 and June 2023.

Poland

Poland to hold referendum on accepting migrants as part of EU scheme

Poland's ruling right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) wants Poles to vote on four key topics, including migration, border security, the retirement age, and the privatisation of state companies.

Italy

Migrants from dozens of boats reach tiny Italian isles

Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said.

Europe News

Spain failed to reopen 'genuine access to asylum' at enclaves: NGOs

Three decades of migration deals between Spain and Morocco have led to fortified and almost impenetrable borders for asylum seekers.

United Kingdom

Migrants moved off Bibby Stockholm after Legionella bacteria found

It's the latest setback for the controversial barge the UK government hopes will provide an alternative to housing migrants in hotels.

Greece

Alarm sounded over migrants stranded in no man's land on Europe border

What's happening in Greece's Evros region "shows the dark side of EU migration policy", one analyst told Euronews.

Italy

Four shipwrecks in five days: Why migrants keep dying in the Med

Forty-one migrants died off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to the only four survivors, in the latest shipwrecks reported in the Mediterranean Sea.

United Kingdom

First group of migrants moved onto housing barge in the UK

The first group of UK asylum-seekers has been moved onto a giant housing barge on the south coast of England as the government aims to cut the cost of sheltering migrants wanting to settle in the country.

Italy

Migrants rescued after clinging to rocks near Lampedusa for days

Several migrants have been rescued by Italian coast guards after clinging onto rocks near Lampedusa for several days

Poland

Wagner exercises in Belarus a provocation, says Poland

A Wagner mercenary military exercise in Belarus has triggered warnings from Poland that Russia is deliberately trying to destabilise the border region

Europe News

EU watchdog to investigate Frontex's role in deadly Adriana shipwreck

The European Union's watchdog on Wednesday launched an investigation into the role Frontex played in one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent history.

Culture news

London's Migration Museum aims to 'shine a light' on UK history

From the co-founder of Marks & Spencer, to designer Jimmy Choo, or local neighbourhood restaurateurs, an exhibition at London's Migration Museum highlights migrants crucial role in shaping Britain.