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16.08.2022, MIGAZIN
In March, the sea rescue organization Seawatch reported that Libya banned its aircraft from flying over the so-called Libyan sea rescue zone. Now the German government has also joined the elaboration of the Bundestag's scientific services, which had already affirmed at the end of June that the ban on civilian flights for sea rescue in the central Mediterranean by Libyan authorities violates international law. However, the EU border protection agency Frontex can continue its own aerial surveillance unhindered. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Deutschland, Europäische Union
16.08.2022, Die Presse
More than 45,000 boat migrants have arrived in Italy in the last twelve months. 137 smugglers have been arrested since the beginning of the year. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
16.08.2022, Europa Today
The 'prize' in Rabat after the tragedy at the border with Spain in which 37 people died. The role of the centre-left government in Madrid. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa, Afrika
16.08.2022, Der Tagesspiegel
More and more people are arriving in Italy via the dangerous Mediterranean route. For years, the country has been demanding more help from EU member states. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Deutschland, Europäische Union, Europa
15.08.2022, Alarmphone
Over the first six months of 2022, from the 1st of January until the 30th of June, Alarm Phone was alerted to 216 boats in distress in the central Mediterranean region, 112 of which reached Europe. In view of EU authorities regularly failing to rescue people in distress at sea, the collaboration between Alarm Phone and the civil rescue NGOs has proven crucial over recent months, leading to 59 successful rescue operations. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
15.08.2022, MIGAZIN
The state of Baden-Württemberg has created better prospects for foreigners who are obliged to leave the country. In view of the existing shortage of skilled workers, the foreigners authorities have now been instructed to make sufficient use of the existing legal leeway. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
15.08.2022, Info Migrants
According to the EU border agency Frontex, the number of migrants arriving in the EU between January and July has increased by 86% compared to the previous year. The divided island of Cyprus in particular has seen an increase in new arrivals. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa
15.08.2022, taz
The planned deportation detention center at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) continues to raise some questions. Research by the ARD magazine "Kontraste", RBB and the platform "FragDenStaat" has evaluated, among other things, that the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior (MIK) decided to cooperate with the investor, who has a criminal record for corruption, in order to circumvent the then state finance minister Christian Görke (Left Party) in this way. The deportation center is to be built by investor Jürgen B. Harder, who will then lease it to the federal government and the state. Again, there has been no public tender. The extensive research lays out some unanswered questions. read more
At least 15 migrants were found dead in the desert on Libya's southeastern border with Sudan. The vehicle ran out of fuel and the migrants did not have enough food and water with them. According to the Libyan "Department for Combating Irregular Migration," all the migrants were Sudanese nationals. Two more people are still missing and it is also unclear whether there will be more victims. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
15.08.2022, BBC
The British Ministry of Defense has reported that more than 20,000 people have already crossed the English Channel this year. As recently as April, the government announced that it would deport asylum seekers to Rwanda to deter migrants. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich, Großbritannien, Europäische Union, Europa
15.08.2022, Der Spiegel
A group of refugees continues to stay on a small island on the Evros, the Greek-Turkish border river. However, neither Greece nor Turkey feel responsible. A five-year-old child had already died last week as a result of a scorpion sting. The refugees urgently have to be rescued. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
14.08.2022, Il Fatto Quotidiano
Teenagers, who are almost still children, are tried and imprisoned as adults. They are accused of being the smugglers when they arrive on the Italian coast, "while the real smugglers stay in Libya." The numbers are not there, the stories are. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europa
14.08.2022, Rai
From the Lampedusa hotspot, which was holding 780 people as of early yesterday afternoon, 430 migrants are being transferred and boarded on the Pietro Novelli ferry. read more
14.08.2022, The Guardian
A petition accuses the EU border agency Frontex of exploiting its staff. It uses a contractor who pays interpreters a wage of less than €2.50 per hour. The 80 interpreters and cultural mediators are employed through third-party providers. The working conditions expect availability seven days a week for 24 hours a day. In addition, there is the stress and mental strain of daily conversations with migrants. read more
13.08.2022, junge Welt
In an interview with Panagiotis Psyllakis, a lawyer at the Greek Supreme Court, Psyllakis describes the support options for refugees in Greece, the asylum policy of the Mitsotakis government and points out legal limits. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
13.08.2022, Der Spiegel
A van overturned while trying to escape a police checkpoint at the Austrian-Slovakian border crossing at Kittsee. Three people were killed, seven others were seriously injured. In total, there were 20 refugees in the van, according to police. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Österreich / Schweiz
13.08.2022, taz
In an interview with the newspaper taz, Greek sea rescuer Iasonas Apostolopoulos reports on the systematic nature of the illegal pushbacks that take place both on the Evros River and in the Aegean Sea. Also, the right-wing smear campaign spread against him in the Greek media and on social networks is increasing. Apostolopoulos had publicly denounced the pushbacks of the Greek Coast Guard in a speech in the European Parliament in May. read more
12.08.2022, Tagesschau
With 87 rescued people on board, the sea rescue ship "Sea-Eye 4" is allowed to dock in Sicily. The refugees were rescued two weeks ago near Malta. But the state refused to allow the ship to dock. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europa
12.08.2022, Der Standard
After the record year 2015, in which more than one million people crossed the Mediterranean to Europe, public interest decreased steadily. At the same time, the death toll is currently rising. read more
12.08.2022, InfoMigrants
According to its own information, the Turkish coast guard has rescued a total of 130 people on the move in the last 48 hours who had tried to reach Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. They were pushed back by the Greek coast guard, which has already been criticised for illegal pushbacks and regular violations of European and international law. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
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