Europe

Every summer, migration flows to Europe increase. Sailing conditions are better than in winter and there are more attempts to cross the Mediterranean. But the journey is still very dangerous: the central Mediterranean, between Libya and Europe, is still the deadliest migration route in the world. In the last seven days, Ocean Viking, the SOS Mediterranean ship, has rescued 572 people at sea.…

The Sea-Watch organization filed a complaint in Agrigento, Sicily, against the Libyan Coast Guard for trying to kill 63 migrants at sea. Facts go back to June 30 and were filmed by aid workers. After the violence at sea, the legal puzzle. as reported from Rome, Anne TrécaCan the Italian judiciary prosecute the Libyan…

The Danish parliament passed a law on Thursday 3 June that makes it possible to move asylum seekers from Europe as soon as they set foot on Danish soil. The Social Democrat Mette Frederiksen has made a transfer of asylum requests, which all European right-wingers dream of. Theoretically, all asylum seekers arriving in Denmark will be immediately put on a plane to Rwanda, Eritrea or any other third country that has agreed to process their request, of course for a fee. If it is accepted, the refugee is not even sure of…

For Hakim El Karoui, assistant researcher at the Montaigne Institute, the European Union must integrate the Maghreb countries into its recovery plan in order to avoid an economic crisis with catastrophic consequences. For researcher Hakim El Karoui, “what we do not see is that today we are intertwined with the Maghreb. And in a…

In Morocco, King Mohammed VI said he definitely wanted to resolve the issue of Moroccan minors in an irregular situation in Europe. The monarch says he is ready to work with European countries and the European Union to resolve this issue. The announcement comes as Spain faces an influx of minors, mostly young Moroccans, into the Ceuta enclave, causing a major crisis between the two Mediterranean…

The Spanish authorities resumed its tone on Thursday, Could 20, in opposition to Morocco, accused of "aggression" and "extortion" by Margarita Robles, the Spanish protection minister, following the arrival of greater than 8,000 migrants since Could 17 within the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The inflow of those migrants from close…

It hardly appears credible, however that is what is going to occur. Foreigners in Denmark who need to apply for asylum should now accomplish that from Rwanda, in Africa. From our correspondent in Copenhagen,This is known as outsourcing of asylum purposes. Think about a refugee, a secret, who, after crossing the Mediterranean,…

Will Germany be the primary nation to return to Nigeria bronze from Benin, world-famous artistic endeavors? The query that had given rise to many debates for a number of weeks appears to be clarified: Berlin is prepared, after turning a deaf ear for a very long time, to return these works. A course of that may start subsequent yr.…

Pope Francis on Sunday, April 25, described as "shameful" the destiny of 130 migrants who had disappeared since Thursday after a shipwreck within the Mediterranean, saying he was "very saddened by this tragedy". With our Vatican correspondent, Eric Senanque"I admit to you that I'm very saddened by the tragedy that has occurred…

The independent Roman daily "Domani" managed, in collaboration with the British newspaper "The Guardian" and the Italian TV channel RAI News, to obtain documents transcribing wiretaps from 2017. These documents are in the possession of the prosecutor's office Trapani, in Sicily, prove the inertia at the Libyan Coast Guard in the face of migrants' shipwrecks in their territorial waters.…