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Amid opposition from the Socialists and Greens
France intends to end nationality by birth on the island of Mayotte to limit immigration

February 20, 20245 mins

The French authorities announced their intention to make a controversial constitutional amendment that would abolish the right of those born on the French island of Mayotte, which has a Muslim majority in the Indian Ocean, to obtain citizenship, claiming that it would help stop the illegal immigration crisis. This step was rejected by the Socialists…

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Germany opens a third immigration center in Nigeria to reduce irregular migration

February 20, 2024February 22, 20247 mins

The German Development Minister inaugurated a third immigration center, in the West African country of Nigeria, as part of a series of new immigration centers, with the aim of reducing irregular immigration and providing advice and guidance to people who want to work in Germany. German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze…

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Two migrants killed and injured in a shooting in a camp in northern France

February 19, 20243 mins

A migrant was shot dead, and another was injured near the Loon-Plage camp in northern France, while the judicial police and the Central Office to Combat Migrant Trafficking opened an investigation. The injured person was a 33-year-old Iraqi, while the identity of the deceased was not confirmed. Dunkirk prosecutor Charlotte Hutet said on Sunday, February…

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France: The number of asylum applications has reached record levels in 2023, and Afghans are at the forefront

February 18, 20245 mins

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) announced that it had received “142,500 applications for international protection, including 123,400 asylum applications for the first time” during the year 2023, which represents an unprecedented increase in the number of asylum applications in France. Afghans represented the largest number of asylum seekers…

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Following a Swedish court’s decision to deport the Iraqi refugee “the Quran burner,” fears that he will be exposed to retaliation

February 14, 20244 mins

The Swedish Migration Court approved the decision to deport Iraqi refugee Silwan Mumika, who burned copies of the Quran more than once in the capital, Stockholm, last year, and sparked a wave of anger in the Islamic world, but the Swedish authorities fear that he will be exposed to retaliation in Iraq, if he is…

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The decline of democracy forces them to flee… 17 Tunisian immigrants are missing off the shores of Italy

February 13, 2024July 2, 20242 mins

Tunisian authorities considered at least 17 Tunisians missing after they boarded a boat to immigrate to Italy. Reuters reported, citing Tunisian authorities, that among the missing were two minor children and a woman. Those fleeing Tunisia were considered illegal immigrants, while a Tunisian activist explained that the increase in illegal immigration from Tunisia comes…

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As a result of civil society efforts, children from Gaza arrived in Geneva to receive treatment for the first time

February 12, 20247 mins

Four children who were victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, between the ages of 14 months and 17 years, arrived in the Swiss capital, Geneva, coming from the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in Switzerland, and to keep them away from the imminent danger in which they live, at the initiative of a doctor residing in…

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Spain’s Supreme Court: Mass expulsion of Moroccan minors in 2021 was “illegal”

February 11, 20246 mins

The Spanish Supreme Court ruled that the deportation of hundreds of young Moroccan minors from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in August 2021, after a mass border crossing, was illegal and violated the European Convention on Human Rights, in a blow to the coalition government’s immigration policy. The court’s judges rejected an appeal filed by…

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A judicial decision to consider the youth organization of the right-wing AfD party as an “extremist” movement

February 11, 2024February 13, 20244 mins

A state court in Germany declared that German intelligence services classified the youth organization affiliated with the far-right Alternative for Germany party as a confirmed extremist movement, after a series of angry demonstrations over a far-right plan, woven at night, and recently exposed, to expel foreigners from Germany. The Cologne Administrative Court issued the ruling…

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After millions demonstrated against it
The Alternative for Germany Party is declining in opinion polls in Germany

February 8, 2024February 8, 20242 mins

The first opinion poll after millions demonstrated against right-wing extremism and the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) that spread across Germany showed that the AfD had begun to lose its popularity among German voters, but the ruling coalition did not benefit from this decline. The “AfD” in the opinion poll called “Sonntagsfrage” came at 21.5%,…

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Even though the borders are closed…
18 migrants arrested on the Finnish-Russian border

February 7, 20243 mins

The Finnish authorities arrested 18 migrants, including women and children, on Finland’s closed land border with Russia, one week after the disappearance of 160 migrants who had applied for asylum in Finland. The Finnish border guard said the group was suspected of illegally crossing a forested area north of the Imatra border crossing and consisted…

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The French Constitutional Council rejects more than a third of the articles of a right-wing law on immigration

February 6, 20245 mins

The French Constitutional Council rejected more than a third of the provisions contained in the controversial immigration bill that was adopted under pressure from the far-right, and while human rights organizations considered the ruling a “victory,” right-wing forces described it as a “coup by the judiciary.” French media reported that the texts rejected by the…

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