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Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis has reiterated that his country will not be a gateway for migrants to travel to Western Europe as it was during the 2015 migrant crisis.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has announced he will run for the French presidency, vowing to take a harder line on immigration than incumbent Emmanuel Macron.

According to an activist group that deals with honour violence and oppression, young girls continue to be flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) despite bans.

ROME (AP) – Italy’s final evacuation flight of refugees from Afghanistan has landed at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. The Italian Air Force C-130J with 58 Afghan citizens aboard arrived Saturday morning, some 17 hours after it departed from the

The French government is seeking a new deal with Britain on illegal immigration – not so that boat migrants can be returned to their shores, but so that they can direct more migrants on to Britain.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that Britain’s own airlift will continue unchanged despite Thursday afternoon’s bombing. 

The European Union on Thursday will consider reimposing restrictions on U.S. travelers due to rising cases of the Chinese coronavirus in President Biden’s America, despite his administration’s vaccination effort which has seen over 171 million fully vaccinated in the U.S. 

The World Bank announced on Tuesday that it will halt financial aid to Afghanistan following the Taliban’s overthrow of the elected government in Kabul.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised financial incentives to European Union member states who take in refugees and asylum seekers from Afghanistan. President Von der Leyen made the announcement after a visit to a reception centre for

Belarus accused of forcing migrants over the EU border at gunpoint, in an attack of “hybrid warfare” against its democratic neighbours.

Poland is following Hungary, Lithuania, and Greece in building a “wall” to stop a surge of predominantly African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian migrants, thought to have been orchestrated by the Lukashenko regime in neighbouring Belarus.

For the sixth straight week, hundreds of thousands of people in France took to the streets against Emmanuel Macron’s health pass scheme.

The borders of Greece will be defended, the Minister of Citizen Protection declared as the country announced the completion of a border wall.

MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.

The Greek government has begun fortifying its northern land border with Turkey and the Greek coast guard is expected to be on alert to deploy into the eastern Aegean ahead of a possible surge of migrants from Afghanistan.

Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a possible wave of migrants fleeing the country, Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven has vowed there will be no repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.

Haunted by a 2015 migration crisis fueled by the Syrian war, European leaders desperately want to avoid another large-scale influx of migrants from Afghanistan.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has called on the European Union to protect the bloc’s external borders in the wake of the crisis in Afghanistan, as some predict a possible wave of migrants.

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The European Union has accused Belarus of attacking the bloc with mainly Iraqi migrants by forcing them to cross the borders into Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Poland has deployed hundreds of troops and is laying barbed wire along its border with Belarus to stop the arrival of migrants.

Belarus is allegedly sending migrants to Lithuania as part of a “hybrid warfare” campaign to destabilize the EU member state.

The British Prime Minister said he was looking for the Taliban to respect “internationally agreed standards on human rights and inclusivity”.

The Swedish government has taken the children of five Islamic State women into custody after the women were deported back to the country from Turkey.

A Syrian migrant has been awarded 840,000 Swedish kronor (£70k/$96k) in damages after a court mistakenly tried him as an adult in a case involving kidnapping and rape.

An MP has told Breitbart News that her Lithuania will protect the “border of democracy” from a weaponised flow of African and Middle Eastern migrants from Belarus.

Greek police arrested three members of a people-trafficking ring on suspicion of supplying migrants with fake coronavirus documents intended to allow them to fly to other European countries.

So far this year, more than 4,000 asylum-seekers from 40 countries, most of them Iraqi, have illegally crossed from Belarus into Lithuania. That’s 50 times more than during all of 2020.

Several European Union member-states have criticised a move by Sweden and others to halt deportations to Afghanistan, saying that it could encourage Afghans to try and come to Europe.

Illegal migrant landings have increased by nearly sevenfold since leftist Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese took over from Matteo Salvini in 2019.

“We are small but we are tough,” a Lithuanian MP has told Breitbart News after Communist China recalled its ambassador from the country.

The European Union (E.U.) on Thursday warned the Taliban terror group it would be isolated by the international community if it seized power through violence and imposed Islamic rule.

Brexit Britain has outpaced the entire European Union, the Middle East, and Africa in fintech investment during the first half of the year.

The Polish government has claimed it has seen a record number of illegal immigrants cross from Belarus, most likely originating from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) denounced the presence of a high-level European Union (EU) representative at the recent inauguration of Iran’s new president and notorious executioner Ebrahim Raisi, accusing the multi-member state union of “honoring a murderer,” in a strongly worded letter to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell provided in advance to Breitbart News.

German humanitarian development worker Sybille Schnehage has predicted as many as three million Afghan asylum seekers could head to Europe in the near future.