The European Union (EU) is watching the migrant situation in Egypt after an increase in sea crossings and following claims from Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that five million migrants are residing in the country waiting to cross the Mediterranean.
A politician from the German Left Party has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling an underage African migrant into Germany.
The Italian government fears that a fresh torrent of migrants from North Africa will cross the sea in the coming weeks, as over 15,000 have arrived in the past four days alone.
More than 25,000 migrants arrived in Italy in July, 12 percent more than in the same period last year, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday.
An Italian town on the Swiss border is being flooded with stranded migrants as Swiss authorities refuse to let them through. The Italian town of Como, near the famous lake of the same name, is being inundated by migrants seeking
Germany is facing a €125,000 bill to deport just three illegal African migrants who have been convicted of violent crimes. A flight from Germany to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa should cost around €400 per person, but for the
European Union border agency Frontex warns that Egypt may be the new Libya as record numbers of migrants flow from the two North African countries. Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri is worried that because of the EU-Turkey deal, migrants are now
The European Commission has unveiled plans to massively increase legal migration from Africa with a relaunched “Blue Card” scheme to make Europe “more attractive” to people from the world’s poorest continent. The plans were in response to the up to
An illegal migrant with a long criminal history has brutally murdered a 54-year-old woman on a Vienna street while she was on her way to work. News headlines in Austria Wednesday morning were focused on one topic, the brutal killing
The LGBT grouping within Austria’s Social Democrat Party has come under fire for suggesting that gay migrants should be given separate lodgings to protect them from attacks by fellow migrants and their Muslim translators. Austria’s Lesbian and Gay Social Democrats (SOHO)
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany’s interior minister voiced optimism Sunday that Europe’s refugee influx had peaked but said agreements with North African countries may be needed to prevent mass arrivals in future. A controversial EU-Turkey deal goes into effect on Monday under
Valletta (AFP) – EU leaders hope Thursday to clinch an aid-for-cooperation deal with their African partners to tackle an unprecedented migration crisis and rebuff fears a “fortress” Europe is emerging. The concerns were aired at a rare EU-Africa summit in
