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Spain

Ceuta: Europe ‘will not be intimidated’ on issue of migration, says EU

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has vowed to “restore order” after the influx of migrants entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, amid a diplomatic spat between the two sides.

18/05/2021

Italy

Judge dismisses migrant case against Italy's Matteo Salvini

While the Catania case was dismissed, the leader of the right-wing League will face trial in the Sicilian capital of Palermo on kidnapping charges for failure to let a Spanish migrant rescue ship dock in 2019.

14/05/2021

Libya

Five migrants have died after their boat capsized off Libya

Five migrants have drowned when a vessel, carrying at least 45 people and heading for Europe, capsized off Libya.

10/05/2021

Italy

More than 2,100 migrants arrive on Italian island at weekend

Italian media reported boats carrying hundreds of people arrived at the small island of Lampedusa, while an NGO warned hundreds more were in trouble in Maltese waters.

10/05/2021

World News

Sea Watch 4: Rescue ship carrying 455 migrants docks in Sicily

A rescue vessel with hundreds of migrants aboard has disembarked at the Italian port of Trapani.

04/05/2021

World News

17 people found dead on migrant boat off Spain's Canary Islands

Spanish rescuers found seventeen people dead and managed to save three on a migrant boat off the island of El Hierro.

26/04/2021

Sweden

Former Swedish LGBT activist convicted of raping four migrants

A former employee of a Swedish LGBT organisation was convicted of raping four migrants and two more charges of sexual assault.

22/04/2021

Serbia

Afghan refugee speaks out on landmark Serbia border police case

In December 2020 Serbia's Constitutional Court ruled that border control officers had violated the rights of 17 Afghan refugees they abandoned in a forest in freezing cold temperatures near the Bulgarian border.

18/04/2021

Spain

Four migrants found dead off Canary Islands amid rise in crossings

Four more migrants have been found dead after another boat carrying people to the Canary Islands needed to be rescued on Sunday.

12/04/2021

France

France rescues 159 migrants as they bid to make it to the UK

The number of migrants attempting to cross from France to the UK has soared in recent months.

02/04/2021

Greece

Brussels allocates €276M to Greece for migrant camps on its islands

About 40,000 people currently live in overcrowded facilities on Greek islands.

29/03/2021

World

Migrants protesting in Paris call for safe housing

Migrants in Paris held a protest last night at the heart of the French capital - calling on the government to provide more stable housing while they wait for their applications to be processed.

26/03/2021

Spain

Migrants stuck in Spain's Canary Islands say camps are unfit

More than 23,000 people from Morocco and West Africa arrived on the resort archipelago in the past year as authorities cracked down on previously popular routes on the Mediterranean.

25/03/2021

United Kingdom

UK asylum overhaul seeks to restrict Channel migrants' claim rights

Home Secretary Priti Patel's plan to make it harder for people entering the UK by unauthorised routes to claim asylum has been branded 'inhumane' by the Red Cross.

24/03/2021

Cinema

Dutch-directed 'Shadow Game' offers insight into plight of refugees

'Shadow Game', by two Dutch directors, follows the trials and tribulations of migrants as young as 14 fleeing war, famine and oppression to start new lives in Europe. It also features a mobile game and an interactive web documentary series.

21/03/2021

World News

Europe must share the burden of migrant flow, say EU border nations

“We can no longer be punished for our geographical position,” Malta's Byron Camilleri said Saturday, summing up his position and that of his colleagues from Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain.

20/03/2021

Slovenia

Suffocating migrants rescued from tiny, airless compartment in truck

They were found hidden in a truck at the Slovenia-Croatia border.

25/02/2021

Italy

UN and IOM call for Europe to resume search and rescue

UN data shows that out of the 3,800 people who arrived in Italy by sea this year, 2,527 departed from Libya.

25/02/2021

Austria

Refugee home in Austria saved by former resident

A former resident of a refugee home in Austria has saved it from developers.

21/02/2021

Malta

Open Arms rescues over 100 more migrants from Mediterranean off Libya

The Spanish NGO says it has now rescued 146 migrants off the coast of Libya in recent days, taking them to safety in Sicily.

14/02/2021