Government & Politics
Priti Patel looked at shipping UK asylum seekers to south Atlantic (LINK ONLY)
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European Union
Immigration
Rights group: Cyprus pushed back migrants, ignored claims
(AP) Cypriot authorities pushed back 200 migrants and refugees arriving from Lebanon aboard boats earlier this month, ignoring their claims for asylum while in some instances using violence and coercive tactics, a human rights watchdog said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch accused […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim Brotherhood fails to expand across Europe Terrorist attacks in Europe have dampened the extremists' reach
(National-UAE) Attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to expand into central and eastern Europe have failed, a report says. Terrorist attacks in Europe, including the 2015 Paris atrocity and the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings that killed dozens of people, have led to a […]
Government & Politics
Patel: Home Office looking at creating safe routes for asylum seekers (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants pitch tents in Serbia, prepare to cross into EU states
(Reuters) Dozens of migrants from the Middle East and Africa have set up tents outside Subotica, a town in northern Serbia, with a view to sneaking over the nearby border with Hungary and on to Western Europe. According to the Asylum Protection […]
Government & Politics
Greece warms to EU asylum pact but refugee groups rage
(AFP) Greece’s government has cautiously welcomed a plan from Brussels to reform the EU’s shaky asylum system, but charity groups working with refugees on the ground have blasted a continued “outrageous containment policy.” The “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” was unveiled […]
Government & Politics
Britain will be powerless to send back migrants who arrive in small boats, warns ex-government adviser (LINK ONLY)
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Interfaith
Norway court approves extradition to France of 1982 Paris attack suspect
(AFP) A Norwegian court on Friday approved an extradition request from France for a suspect linked to an attack in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris in 1982 that killed six people. Friday’s ruling, which can be appealed, concerns only whether the legal […]
Government & Politics
Poland’s president says migrants should stay close to their countries
(Reuters) Migrants fleeing conflict should stay as close as possible to their home countries, Poland’s president said on Friday, criticising proposals for an overhaul of the European Union’s migration and asylum rules. “For the sake of those countries from which these people […]
Immigration
Migrants accuse Greece of pushing them back out to sea
(AP) Shortly after reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, a group of Afghan migrants say, their hopes for a new life in Europe were cut short when Greek authorities rounded them up, mistreated them, shoved them into life rafts and abandoned them […]
Government & Politics
EU tries to sell migrant pact amid claims the hardliners won
(AP) The European Union’s top migration officials struggled Thursday to sell their new plan to overhaul the bloc’s failed asylum system amid concern they have sold out to anti-migrant governments. Critics say the proposal focuses on rapidly deporting people who don’t qualify […]
Government & Politics
Visegrad Four grouping push back on new EU migration plan
(Reuters) Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia criticised on Thursday proposals for an overhaul of the European Union’s broken migration and asylum rules that are due to be discussed by EU leaders at a summit next week. After a meeting in […]
Government & Politics
EU’s migration proposals draw anger on left and leave questions unanswered (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Divided Europe challenged to overhaul defunct migration policies
(Reuters) The European Union’s executive launched a contentious plan on Wednesday for overhauling broken migration rules to resolve years of bitterness and provide a better welcome for refugees fleeing the Middle East and Africa. The most sensitive element would de facto oblige […]
Government & Politics
No more Morias? EU to unveil long-delayed asylum plan
(AFP) The failure of the European Union’s migration policy could not have been laid out more starkly — an already miserable camp burned and thousands of refugees homeless. On Wednesday, two weeks after the destruction of the Moria camp on the Greek […]
Legal
Duo get life sentences in Bulgaria over 2012 Israeli bus bombing
(AFP) A Bulgarian court on Monday sentenced two Lebanese men in their absence to life in prison over a deadly 2012 bus bomb attack on Israeli tourists at the country’s Burgas airport. The attack in July 2012 killed five Israelis including a […]
Immigration
Lesbos grapples with ‘hot-headed migrants’ attacking farms and killing livestock (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Thousands march in Germany urging EU to take in Moria refugees
(AFP) Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Berlin and other German cities, urging the European Union to take in migrants left without shelter after a fire destroyed their biggest camp in Greece. The mask-clad protesters brandishing posters reading “Leave No One Behind” […]
Government & Politics
Priti Patel planning weekly removals of Channel migrants to Italy, France and Germany (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Lesbos camp filling up as UN warns on migrants’ future
(AFP) The UN refugee agency on Friday warned Greece that a new camp on Lesbos island hastily built to house thousands of migrants left homeless by a fire last week can only be temporary. “This new site is currently functioning as an […]
Immigration
September is record month for migrant Channel crossings
(BBC) September has become the busiest month on record for migrant Channel crossings. On Wednesday, 26 people in two boats were picked up [by] Border Force officers, taking the total number of people to 1,487 for the month so far. August previously […]
Immigration
Greek police move homeless migrants to new Lesbos camp
(AFP) Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday launched an operation to rehouse thousands of asylum seekers sleeping rough for over a week after Europe’s largest migrant camp was destroyed by fire. Officers woke the migrants in their tents and […]
Government & Politics
EU chief, set to unveil asylum policy, says migration is a fact of life
(Reuters) The European Union’s chief executive, set to unveil contentious new asylum policies for the bloc next week, described immigration on Wednesday as a normal fact of life and said the continent should learn to manage it. In a major policy speech […]
Government & Politics
German minister defends decision to take refugees from Greek islands
(Reuters) Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Wednesday defended Germany’s decision to take a further 1,553 refugees from camps in Greece, saying the country could be proud of its role in Europe’s migration crisis. On Tuesday, Germany announced it would take in 408 […]
Crime
Greece: 4 Afghans charged with arson for fire at Lesbos camp
(AP) Four Afghan migrants have been charged with arson for alleged involvement in fires that destroyed most of a large refugee camp on the eastern island of Lesbos, Greek authorities said. The men, who have not been named, were led to a […]
Children & Teens
Afghans face Greek prosecutor over fire at migrant camp
(AFP) Six young Afghan men including two minors will face a prosecutor on Greece’s Lesbos island Wednesday on suspicion of setting fires that destroyed Europe’s largest migrant camp last week. The suspects, aged 20 and below, are to be arraigned after midday, […]
Immigration
Portugal migrant arrivals prompt negotiations with Morocco
(AP) Lisbon and Rabat are negotiating a deal that would allow an agreed number of citizens from Morocco to work legally in Portugal, a senior Portuguese official said Wednesday. The announcement came amid fears that undocumented migrants seeking a way into the […]
Legal
Wedding invitations and terrorist plot lists helped to convict returning foreign fighters New report shows more nations using battlefield evidence to win convictions
(National-UAE) Battlefield evidence, including wedding invitations and terrorist plot lists, have been used across Europe to prosecute returning foreign fighters, a report has revealed. ISIS and Al Qaeda militants have been prosecuted by at least 10 EU nations with help from battlefield […]
Government & Politics
Greek PM says EU must show ‘tangible solidarity’ on migrants, Turkey
(Reuters) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Tuesday for “tangible solidarity” from the European Union in tackling the migrant crisis and tensions with Turkey in the east Mediterranean region. A fire destroyed Greece’s biggest refugee camp last week on the island […]
Children & Teens
Germany to take in 1,500 refugees from Greek islands
(AFP) Germany said Tuesday it will take in more than 1,500 refugees from Greece on top of the 150 unaccompanied minors whose camp burned down on the island of Lesbos as Berlin tried to rally a fresh EU response to a years-long […]
Crime
Greek government accuses migrants of ‘burning’ Moria camp
(AFP) Greece on Monday accused migrants of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp last week on Lesbos island, where hundreds reluctantly moved to a new temporary site with “no showers or mattresses.” Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering […]
Government & Politics
Greece sees end to Lesbos migrant crisis within a week
(AFP) Greece said Sunday it hoped thousands of asylum seekers left homeless by fires at Europe’s largest migrant camp could be rehoused within a week to end a crisis that has seen protesters clash with police. Asylum-seekers — including the elderly and […]
Children & Teens
Europe should take more minors from Moria migrant camp: Germany’s Scholz
(Reuters) Plans by European countries to take some 400 unaccompanied children from the burned-down Moria refugee camp in Greece should mark just the beginning of their efforts, German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday. Fires destroyed Greece’s biggest refugee camp on […]
Government & Politics
Austria’s Kurz reiterates opposition to taking in asylum seekers from Moria
(Reuters) Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday reiterated his opposition to taking in asylum seekers from the destroyed Moria refugee camp in Greece, prompting criticism from his government coalition partner the Greens and from the opposition. The fires at Europe’s largest refugee […]
Demonstrations
Teargas fired during migrant protests on Greek island of Lesbos
(AFP) Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesting asylum-seekers on the island of Lesbos Saturday, as thousands demanded help after being left homeless by fires that destroyed Europe’s largest migrant camp. Asylum-seekers — including the elderly and very young children — […]
Government & Politics
Greece wants joint EU management of new Lesbos camp
(AFP) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday demanded more “active” participation from the EU in housing thousands of migrants on the island of Lesbos, as he said Athens will rebuild a notoriously overcrowded camp destroyed by fire. “A new facility will […]
Animals
Flanders will fight to maintain ritual slaughter ban
(Brussels Times) The Flemish minister for animal welfare, Ben Weyts (N-VA), said he is “fundamentally in disagreement” with the opinion handed down yesterday by the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice, declaring a Flemish ban on ritual slaughter illegal. Flanders has […]
Health & Medicine
For Greek camp migrants, COVID-19 quarantine was spark
(Reuters) For asylum-seekers trapped in the overcrowded facility on Greece’s island of Lesbos, Moria was hell most days. But a coronavirus quarantine was the final straw. It was just before midnight on Tuesday when eight migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 were […]
Children & Teens
Moria migrants: Germany, France will take in 400 children from Greece’s refugee camp Berlin and Paris said they plan to move 400 minors from the Greek migrant camp destroyed in a blaze. Angela Merkel said she hoped other EU nations would assume a 'shared responsibility' and accept some of the minors.
(Deutsche Welle) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to a deal that would allow 400 unaccompanied minors from the Greek migrant camp to move to other parts of the European Union, Merkel confirmed on Thursday. Merkel, whose country […]
Animals
European magistrate backs ritual slaughter for halal and kosher meat Muslim and Jewish leaders argue their religions require animals to be fully healthy and conscious when they are slaughtered.
(Courthouse News) In a legal test case pitting animal rights advocates and far-right politicians against Muslim and Jewish religious leaders seeking to protect halal and kosher meats, a magistrate for Europe’s highest court on Thursday said bans on the ritual slaughtering of […]
Government & Politics
Germany calls for ‘urgent’ EU migrant reform after Lesbos disaster
(AFP) Germany on Wednesday pushed for urgent reform of the EU’s migration policies, with its minister for Europe telling AFP it was all the more crucial to act quickly after a fire laid waste to the biggest refugee camp in Greece. “We […]
Immigration
Cyprus worried as 4 migrant boats reach island in 48 hours
(AP) Cypriot authorities are alarmed over the arrival of four boats carrying Syrian and Lebanese migrants in waters off the east Mediterranean island nation’s coastline within a 48-hour span. Cyprus police said Sunday that four vessels appeared off Cyprus’ eastern and southern […]
Government & Politics
Migrants are moved from overcrowded Italian island facility
(AP) With the help of a local fishing boat, hundreds of migrants were transferred on Saturday to a ferry from a tiny Italian island to relieve severe overcrowding during the pandemic at a residence for asylum-seekers. After their transfer on Saturday, they […]
Immigration
Britain heading for record 10,000 Channel migrants this year (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
EU’s Michel says relocation no silver bullet to migration feuds
(Reuters) Europe must improve migration procedures on its external borders, seal more deals with foreign countries and synchronise asylum policies in the bloc before it tackles the thorny issue of hosting asylum seekers, a top EU official said on Friday. European Council […]
Crime
People-smugglers using social media to organise migrant crossings, MPs told (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Legal challenges blocking migrant removals, even though most have claimed asylum elsewhere (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic
(AP) Migrants are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago near West Africa, in what has become one of the most dangerous routes to European territory. About 4,000 people have survived the […]
Legal
Austrian court convicts Iran-trained Hezbollah commander for terrorism Unnamed Hezbollah commander murdered people in Syrian civil war and led 60-member unit
(Jerusalem Post) A court in the capital of the Austrian state of Carinthia last week convicted a Hezbollah commander and recruiter for the Lebanese terrorist organization. The court in the city of Klagenfurt declared the 41-year-old Lebanese man guilty due to his […]
Government & Politics
Minister: Over 10,000 migrants stopped from entering Greece
(AP) Greek authorities have prevented thousands of migrants from entering Greece clandestinely by sea this year despite a recent lack of cooperation from the Turkish coast guard, the country’s shipping minister said Wednesday. Giannis Plakiotakis, whose ministry is also in charge of […]