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23.04.2023, taz
Lithuania allows illegal pushbacks of migrants at the border with Belarus. Patrols by volunteer "border guards" are also to become possible. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Osteuropa
21.04.2023, Deutsche Welle
Turkey has taken in about 5.5 million refugees, many of them Syrians. Ahead of the May 14 parliamentary and presidential elections, almost all parties say they would send Syrians back if elected. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
21.04.2023, Fanpage
The Spanish NGO Open Arms' sailing ship Astral set sail today for the central Mediterranean. "We are at sea to save lives and ensure that rights are respected," they wrote in a statement. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Spanien
21.04.2023, Altraeconomia
Since the end of March, the Croatian police has been implementing an 'unprecedented' practice of tracing, detaining and collectively deporting people on their way to Bosnia, transporting them by bus to the border or to detention centres. All with a semblance of formality. The NGOs denounce its blatant illegality and European complicity. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Europäische Union
21.04.2023, Europa Today
While the Cutro decree passed its first reading in the Senate in Italy, the European Parliament gave the first okay to the new EU Pact for Migration and Asylum, the proposal that aims to fill the absence of a true common system of migrant management. Among the many new features, one is of particular interest to Italy: in the event of a "crisis situation," all EU states will have to offer assistance to the migrants' country of arrival. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union
20.04.2023, La Repubblica
The Senate approved the migrant decree (or "Cutro") with 92 votes in favor and 64 against. The government measure now passes to the House, which must convert it by May 10. After yesterday's staged clash over the changes approved by the majority regarding the regulation of special protection the go-ahead for the text was met with applause and several "boos." read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta
19.04.2023, Progetto Melting Pot Europa
After the Cutro tragedy, from the beginning the government has blamed the alleged smugglers for the shipwreck off the Calabrian coast. Blaming smugglers and human traffickers has in fact become a mantra used to deny responsibility not only for the lack of rescue, but also for the creation of safe routes for the mobility of people from the Global South. read more
19.04.2023, ANSA
About 100 people in distress on an inflatable boat off Libya, the call was received by Alarm Phone. "They said that their boat is sinking and they fear the worst," the phone service reports. "So far," it adds, "we have not been able to contact the so-called Libyan Coast Guard on any of their numbers. We need to send rescue now!" read more
18.04.2023, Infomigrants
A group of 60 migrants rescued from two separate boats in the central Mediterranean disembarked on the island of Malta on Monday. It was the biggest arrival of migrants in Malta in many months. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta
18.04.2023, LRT
Non-governmental organisations have called on the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, to vote down a bill legalising the policy of turning away irregular migrants at the border. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
17.04.2023, The Grey Zone
An investigation by the United Nations has concluded that money provided by the European Union to state entities in Libya has facilitated crimes against humanity ranging from forced labor and sexual slavery to torture. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Europäische Union
17.04.2023, Aljazeera
Syrian national is fighting for his life in a Polish hospital, having fallen from a border wall in his attempt to flee Belarus and find safety elsewhere in Europe. Mohammad, who is now in a medically induced coma in Białystok, eastern Poland, was injured and hospitalised on April 7 after tumbling off the five-metre (16-foot) high, 186km (115-mile) long wall erected last year by Polish authorities. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Osteuropa
17.04.2023, Infomigrants
A vehicle full of migrants traveling west from Greece's border with Turkey crashed while attempting to avoid a police checkpoint Saturday. The van, which was reportedly traveling at a high speed on the wrong side of the highway, collided head-on with an SUV. The 46-year-old driver of the SUV, as well as six of the migrants aboard, died. read more
17.04.2023, TagesschaU
Mehrere Hilfsorganisationen fordern die EU auf, das Migrationsabkommen mit Tunesien zu beenden. Migranten litten dort unter Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Rassismus. EVP-Chef Weber will dagegen ein weiteres Abkommen mit dem nordafrikanischen Land. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika
16.04.2023, Migazin
Last Friday, two racist and Islamophobic attacks were reported in Berlin. In the first case, a man on a train on subway line 7 allegedly tried to tear a 38-year-old woman's headscarf off her head. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
14.04.2023, Taz
The selective border controls at the German-Austrian border are to be extended by another six months. This is the result of a letter from Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser to the EU Commission, which is available to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. In it, the SPD politician writes that a sustainable decrease in irregular migration to Central and Western Europe is not to be expected in the foreseeable future. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Österreich / Schweiz
12.04.2023, taz
The violence against people on the move began in February with hunts. Now the police are breaking up refugee camps in front of UN buildings in Tunis. read more
12.04.2023, Spiegel
In recent months, many people have ventured across the Mediterranean towards Italy. Rome's right-wing government has announced that it will respond with a special envoy and five million euros. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta
12.04.2023, Solidarité sans frontières
A new inhuman practice of the Croatian authorities has been observed since last week: mass deportations of people on the move to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Almost 300 people were deported within only five days in March and April 2023. These deportations are taking place in an opaque manner and represent a further escalation of the disenfranchisement of people on the move in Croatia. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa, Europäische Union
11.04.2023, Nau.ch
Italien nimmt mindestens bis am 2. Mai keine Flüchtlinge mehr aus der Schweiz zurück. Grund dafür ist die Aussetzung des Dublin-Abkommens durch die italienische Regierung im Dezember 2022. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Österreich / Schweiz
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