Europe

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.…

Ocean Viking, the boat from NGO SOS Méditerranée, completed its eleventh rescue mission in the central Mediterranean this week. He arrived on Tuesday at the Italian port of Augusta where the 116 people he rescued outside the Mediterranean could disembark. The crew carried out two interventions, one of which disrupted the role played by the Libyan security forces.…

Ocean Viking, the boat from the SOS Mediterranean organization, is conducting a new rescue campaign in the central Mediterranean. At sea, the ship rescued 796 people from Libya to Europe in January and February. RFI embarks on this mission. Every day we receive the logbook from our special correspondent. "Please play a game with me," Amias asks me. The 9-year-old boy points to two painted boards on the floor. Wooden puck acts as pawns. Amias has been aboard the Ocean Viking for three days: he has already had the…

"We applaud the Libyan people for their determination to restore unity in their country," the foreign ministers of France, Germany, the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom said in a joint statement on Thursday. And they reiterated their call to "withdraw all foreign warriors and mercenaries from all over Libya." "This result is a fundamental step towards the unification of Libyan institutions and a comprehensive political solution to a crisis that has tested Libya and its people," the joint…