Spanish Civil Guard forces have arrested seven smugglers accused of beating eight migrants to death during a violent clash on a boat traveling from Senegal to the Spanish Canary Islands. According to Spanish police, the confrontation erupted between the smugglers and the migrants, resulting in the deaths of eight individuals, including a 14-month-old child, and…
Spain has introduced a legal reform aimed at enhancing protections for migrants and streamlining the process for obtaining short- and long-term visas. The changes will allow job-seeker visas to be extended for up to a year. Under the new law, passed by the leftist minority coalition, the status of 300,000 irregular migrants will be regularized…
Hundreds of migrants have arrived in Ceuta after swimming from Morocco in recent days. They took advantage of dense fog to evade border controls. According to Spanish authorities, thousands of migrants have recently attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Ceuta enclave. Spanish police have been stopping migrants in the water for days,…
Thirty years ago, the first two young men from West Africa arrived on the shores of Fuerteventura – one of the Canary Islands – on a wooden boat and then requested political asylum. An anniversary that the Spanish islands celebrate at the end of August each year. The Canary Islands route is one of the…
Figures from the European Union Agency for Asylum show that asylum applications to Germany decreased by 20% during the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2023. Despite this significant decline, media reports from the Welt am Sonntag newspaper indicate that Germany still remains at the forefront of European countries in…
An updated statistical report from the European Union’s asylum agency reveals a decline in asylum applications to EU countries this year compared to 2023. The report also highlights a significant increase in pending first-instance cases, reaching the highest level since the 2015/2016 refugee crisis. The current decline in asylum applications extends the overall trend seen…
The Lower Saxony state authority deported a Russian refugee family despite church asylum. According to the Ministry of the Interior and the State Reception Service of Saxony, the family, which consisted of a couple, an adult boy and a girl, was deported. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees had examined the personal circumstances…
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…
European Parliaments and European Union member states reached an agreement on reforming the immigration system after long and arduous negotiations, but human rights organizations considered that “this agreement constitutes a historic failure” and “will cause more deaths at sea.” On December 19, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised this “historic agreement” on the…
A senior EU official said that in 2024 and 2025, the Union will allow the entry of more than 60,000 of the most vulnerable refugees. This is a slight increase compared to previous years, while the official rejected criticism that the EU is more welcoming to Ukrainians than others. European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs…
Two studies published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revealed that motherhood keeps migrant women away from the labor market in a worrying way in many countries, noting that France, Germany and Belgium are considered the worst in this regard. The two studies, which were published on Monday, October 23, shed light…
A Spanish judge ordered the release of nine migrants, who were accused of piracy and forcing the ship’s captain, who saved them from drowning, to head to the Canary Islands archipelago on October 3, after the captain confirmed that the migrants were peaceful and that the official story was incorrect. The official Spanish version of…
