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Germany

German businesses want workers but immigration courts are turning them away

The skills gap is still there despite a potential workforce

17/05/2018

United Kingdom

Homeless EU Migrants could receive compensation from UK Government

Hundreds of thousands of pounds could be paid out to rough sleepers who have been wrongly threatened with deportation by the Government.

14/05/2018

Greece

Greek court frees rescue workers

Three Spanish firefighters had been accused of migrant trafficking

07/05/2018

Greece

Spanish aid workers on trial for people smuggling in Greece acquitted of charges

Three Spanish firefighters accused of people smuggling in Greece have been acquitted of all charges.

07/05/2018

Malta

Volunteer pilots ready for take-off to help save migrants in the Med

‘Pilotes Volontaires’: two Frenchmen used their savings to buy a light plane, aiming to search the sea off the Libyan coast and help NGOs save migrants in distress.

03/05/2018

Mexico

Hundreds of migrants at U.S. border given stark warnings

Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans who angered President Trump after being part of a month-long caravan could be forced to split from their families if they cross the border in Mexico.

29/04/2018

France

Anti-immigration group blocks French Alps border to stop migrants from crossing

Generation Identitaire, a French anti-immigration group, gathered on Saturday in Col de l'Echelle to stop migrants crossing into France from Italy.

23/04/2018

Hungary

Sunday's election in Hungary will be a barometer of nationalist sentiment

Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party sees itself as a defender of Hungary against Europe and Muslim migrants

06/04/2018

Israel

Israel frees migrants pending deportation as Netanyahu struggles to placate coalition partners

Prime minister's hard-right allies want forced deportations but host countries hard to find.

05/04/2018

Italy

Italian anger at French border police intrusion over migrants

Italy's Foreign Ministry has summoned the French ambassador to explain why armed French border police entered a clinic that cares for migrants. Claims that doctors and lawyers were intimidated.

01/04/2018

World News

Migrants stranded in Greece march against racism

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens and chanted "open the borders" after sixteen migrants drowned at the weekend in the Aegean Sea, 5 of whom were children

18/03/2018

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Hundreds of migrants rescued in mediterranean

A number of rescues were performed earlier in the day by the charity ship Aquarius, which is operated by Berlin-based NGO SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, as well as Libyan coastguard vessels, rescuing hundreds at sea

11/03/2018

Libya

Hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya

Rescue ships and Libya's coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three migrant boats off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli.

11/03/2018

World News

Euroviews. Italy's election already has a winner ... xenophobia: View

The tenor of the campaign leading up to Italy’s national elections on immigration issues is profoundly alarming, writes Human Rights Watch's Judith Sunderland from Milan.

27/02/2018

Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Refugee row

Prague is facing an EU legal suit for refusing to accept asylum seekers under the bloc's system to relieve other member states hit most by immigration

23/02/2018

World News

Naples gets funding for migrants — but is it enough?

Minister Marco Minitti announces €21 million for security and integration projects in Castel Volturno

21/02/2018

Libya

Libya repatriates 250 African migrants

They were the latest to be sent home as part of a voluntary deportation scheme

20/02/2018

Finland

Finland turns away asylum seeker — who gets killed upon return to Iraq

Ali's daughter, Noor, is adamant her father was killed by the same people who had made him seek refuge in Finland in 2015.

19/02/2018

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Igloo village built by migrants hands lifeline to dying Italian ski r

A dying ski resort in northern Italy has come back to life thanks to an igloo village built by migrants.

12/02/2018

Italy

Italian 'Nazi' shows no remorse for shooting at migrants

Leftist politicians are blaming far-right for stirring up racist ferver

05/02/2018