Portugal’s Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) has issued rejection notices to 4,574 migrants. This comes as the government plans to reject tens of thousands more migrants, just days before the upcoming elections. The center-right Democratic Alliance, led by current Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, has pledged to tighten immigration policies. The coalition’s campaign included…
The Italian Coast Guard announced that six migrants had died and around 40 others were missing after a rubber boat sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. Ten survivors were rescued, and the bodies of the deceased were recovered. According to the survivors, the boat was carrying 56 people, all of whom…
Paris police have evacuated 400 migrants, most of whom are minors and unaccompanied by relatives, from the La Gaité Lyrique Theater, where they had been staying since last December. The police used violence during the operation, breaking into the theater with batons and tear gas, and arresting 46 migrants and their supporters. According to Paris…
Italian authorities have transferred 40 rejected asylum seekers to a migrant reception center in Gjadër, Albania, following a new government decree that reclassifies sea rescue reception centers as detention ones. Under heavy guard, the migrants were first taken to the Italian reception center in the Albanian city of Shëngjin, ahead of their transfer to the…
Migration is a key issue in the ongoing negotiations between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to form a new coalition government. After resolving disagreements and securing the Federal Council’s approval for the historic debt package, tensions have emerged over the proposed shift in migration…
Green Party leader Katharina Dröge believes that the recent electoral gains of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are not primarily driven by immigration. Instead, she attributes the party’s rise to the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine, other ongoing conflicts, and the widespread dissemination of fake news. The Green Party leader acknowledged that while there…
The Administrative Court in Berlin issued a ruling rejecting the classification of Georgia as a safe country of origin in asylum procedures in Germany. This decision came in a case involving Georgian refugees whose asylum applications were rejected based on the German government’s December 2023 decision to classify Georgia as a safe country. The ruling…
The European Commission has announced a list of seven countries deemed safe for the deportation of rejected asylum seekers from the European Union. The list includes Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Colombia, Bangladesh, Kosovo, and India. This means that EU countries will consider asylum applications from nationals of these countries inadmissible and will expedite their deportation. Notably,…
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock emphasized that Germany cannot sustain its future without immigration, citing the country’s low birth rate and resulting labor shortages. Baerbock, a member of the Green Party, urged the acceptance of more immigrants to help bridge the gap. Her comments came as Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus. “Germany is a…
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser rejected the Union’s proposal to implement a stricter immigration policy. During the coalition negotiations, Faeser — a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) — presented the Migration Budget Report, which highlighted a decline in the number of refugees in Germany. She also criticized Merz for the Union faction’s hardline…
The British Labor government has received UN approval to transfer rejected asylum seekers to detention centers outside the country. This follows a meeting last month between Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), where Cooper discussed a plan to relocate asylum seekers to detention centers in…
Seven migrants, including two children, drowned when a boat carrying migrants sank near the Greek island of Lesbos. The Greek Coast Guard, with assistance from the Turkish Coast Guard, rescued 23 migrants from the sea, while border guards recovered the bodies of the victims. The rubber boat, which had departed from Turkey en route to…
