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A German migrant taxi NGO has claimed the EU has worked to allow Libyan authorities to return migrants to North Africa from EU waters. 

EU leaders have echoed pre-existing fears that the ongoing global food crisis could lead to the next European migrant crisis.

Pope Francis returned to the issue of immigration Wednesday, urging European nations to imitate Malta in its welcoming attitude toward migrants.

Pope Francis urged European nations on Sunday to welcome more immigrants and to ease the burden on countries of first entry, such as Malta, Italy, and Spain.

Pope Francis called for greater openness to migrants Saturday, appealing for a change of narrative from the primacy of national security to the primacy of welcome.

Roberta Metsola, a Christian Democrat from Malta, was elected president of the European Union’s parliament Tuesday.

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) – The Mediterranean island nation of Malta is requiring proof of vaccination for visitors 13 and up, the first European Union nation to do so.

(AFP) — Italy is pushing EU partners to revive migrant burden-sharing deals as it seeks to stave off a summertime surge in landings from North Africa, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The interior ministers of the five Mediterranean countries on the front line of mass migration to Europe want their EU partners to share the burden more equitably.

Nearly 500 illegal immigrants held on tourist boats have been allowed to disembark in Malta after migrants stole knives and threatened to blow up a vessel.

Malta’s ambassador to Finland has had to resign his post after saying that Germany’s Angela Merkel had  “fulfilled Hitler’s dream” to “control Europe” on social media.

The George Cross is Britain’s highest civilian award for gallantry in extreme danger, often awarded posthumously for acts of stupendous courage and self-sacrifice. In 1942, King George VI conferred a collective GC on the island of Malta for its heroic endurance during a wartime siege lasting nearly two and half years of near-constant attack by the Germans.

Police arrested some 107 migrants for their role in the riots that overran a migrant holding centre on the island nation of Malta. A group of migrants set fire to five cars and a number of rooms in the Hal

Maltese local councilor Justin Schembri has praised Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini for standing up to the European Union (EU) on the migration issue, not “letting his country be accomplices” in the “wave of organized crime” occurring on the Mediterranean Sea.

The bishop of Gozo, Malta, said this week that it “pains him” to watch Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini holding rosary beads while calling for a stop to the “Islamic invasion.”

A group of Catholic laypeople from Malta have published an open letter to their archbishop calling for the repudiation of a priest who went on national television to defend homosexuality as “natural” and morally equivalent to heterosexual love.

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) – Two Maltese soldiers have pleaded not guilty to charges they participated in a racially-motivated, fatal drive-by shooting of a migrant from Ivory Coast.

A tanker hijacked by migrants it picked up in the Mediterranean has docked in the tiny island nation of Malta following a special forces operation. 

Contents: Malta takes in 49 migrants after deal with EU that infuriates Italy; Malta – EU migrant deal splits Italy’s government

Norway’s navy says one of its frigates has almost completely gone under water after an oil tanker rammed into it last week, tearing a large hole in its side.

Malta has ordered Italy to give priority to “life at sea” rather than border control after Matteo Salvini accused Valletta of aiding illegal immigration.

An oil tanker rammed a Norwegian navy frigate Thursday in a harbor on the country’s western coast, tearing a large hole in its side, the military said. The frigate’s 137 crew members were evacuated amid fears that it may sink.

Over a hundred illegal migrants have been brought to the tiny, densely populated island nation of Malta. 

MILAN (AP) — The European Union is trying to find countries willing to take 177 people rescued at sea after Italy sought its help to deal with yet another migrant standoff with Malta.

The flow of third world migrants must be brought to a halt, European leaders said over the weekend, with Sebastian Kurz calling for EU nations to begin blocking boats from Africa.

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta on Tuesday agreed to let a private rescue ship dock on the island, with the 141 migrants it is carrying to be distributed among five fellow European Union nations in what was described as a “responsibility-sharing exercise.”

SOS Méditerranée has reacted with anger to news the government of Gibraltar is to strip the Aquarius vessel it uses to ferry migrants to Europe of its registration.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has made clear his strong stance on unlimited mass migration after he refused to take part in an EU-wide effort to distribute the migrants of a fishing boat that landed on an Italian island Monday.

PARIS (AP) — The first group of migrants from a private rescue boat that Malta agreed to let dock only if they were divided among several countries left for France Thursday aboard a commercial flight.

The Bishops of Malta have voiced their opposition to their government’s decision to close its harbors to NGO ships shuttling migrants from North Africa to Europe.

The government of Malta has detained a vessel belonging to the German migrant delivery NGO Sea-Watch, not allowing the ship to leave port following the recent arrest of the captain of another vessel belonging to the NGO Lifeline. Sea-Watch announced

Austria has said it will close its border with Italy if Germany begins turning back some migrants at its border with Austria, while Italy and Malta have rejected another migrant ferry — but Spain’s new leftist government is going in the opposite direction and relaxing migration controls.

Contents: EU faces new crisis as Italy demands that Malta accept African migrants; Malta refuses to accept migrants, says it ‘adheres to all obligations’

ROME (AP) – A private ‘rescue’ ship carrying 629 migrants remained Sunday evening on a northward course in the Mediterranean Sea after more than a day of not receiving permission to dock in either Italy or the small island nation of Malta.

38-year-old Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was charged in U.S. federal court on Tuesday for his involvement in a $115 million scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran, using a Venezuelan construction project as an instrument.

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Joseph Muscat was sworn in Monday for a second term as Malta’s prime minister, pledging to introduce a gay marriage law when Parliament convenes in the next few weeks.