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Prepare for tough love on migration as Denmark takes over EU presidency Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen pioneered hard-line migration policies despite being on the left. Now she's bringing her special formula to the EU stage.

June 24, 2025 Nicholas Vinocur

(Politico) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has built a reputation for herself as Europe’s tough-love social democrat, with a hard line on migration that’s earned her more critiques from the left than from the right. Now she’s getting a chance to test-drive […]

Over 1,000 migrants arrive in Italy amid election campaign

July 24, 2022 Gaël Branchereau

(AFP) More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said Sunday. The influx — while not unusual for the […]

Gere belongs in cinema, not as migrant witness: ex-Italian minister

September 26, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Plans for actor Richard Gere to testify against former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini for abuse of migrants threaten to turn the case into a show trial, the far-right leader said on Sunday. Gere — a Hollywood star known as a […]

Kabul urges Europe to halt forced deportations of Afghans

July 11, 2021 Elise Blanchard

(AFP) Afghanistan has urged European countries to halt forced deportations of Afghan migrants for the next three months, as security forces battle a wave of violence triggered by a dizzying Taliban offensive. The United Nations said on Sunday the rising conflict is […]

Germany will fully support a European migrant pact — foreign minister to paper

June 21, 2021 Agnieszka Flak

(Reuters) Germany will fully support a European pact on migrants, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told Italian daily la Repubblica in an interview published on Monday, adding that progress on the distribution of the burden was finally needed. “We should find a key […]

Italy at crisis point as Mediterranean migrant numbers surge nine-fold (LINK ONLY)

June 18, 2021 EoI News

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Italy expects 30,000 migrant arrivals from Libya this year

June 3, 2021 Francesco Bongarra

(Arab News) Officials from the Italian Ministry of the Interior in charge of migration policies expect 30,000 migrants to arrive from Libya by the end of 2021, part of a total of 70,000 expected to reach the coasts of Sicily from the […]

Italy hopeful on reviving EU migrant burden-sharing deal

May 12, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italy is pushing EU partners to revive migrant burden-sharing deals as it seeks to stave off a summertime surge in landings from North Africa, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday. Migration has returned to the top of the political agenda in […]

Migrant arrivals by sea on Italian island swell past 2,100

May 10, 2021 Frances D'Emilio

(AP) Several hundred more migrants reached a tiny Italian island before dawn on Monday, swelling to past 2,100 the number of arrivals in around 24 hours and fueling calls from across the political spectrum for the Italian government to strengthen its migration […]

More than 1,400 migrants arrive on Italy’s Lampedusa

May 9, 2021 Elvira Pollina

(Reuters) Fifteen boats packed with hundreds of migrants landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, and officials said they were expecting numbers to increase as the weather improved. More than 1,400 people got off the vessels at the Mediterranean […]

Italy’s Salvini sent to trial on migrant kidnapping charge

April 17, 2021 Wladimiro Pantaleone

(Reuters) Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s right-wing League party, must stand trial on charges of kidnapping over his decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in the country in 2019, a judge ordered on Saturday. Salvini, who was interior minister […]

UNHCR appeals to Italy not to impede [migrant] rescue boats

April 16, 2021 Colleen Barry

(AP) The head of the U.N. refugee agency on Friday said he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central Mediterranean, as warmer weather is expected to bring the usual seasonal uptick in the […]