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Mohammed tops baby name charts across Europe, highlighting demographic shift The sharpest rise was in England and Wales, where nearly 3% of all newborns were named Mohammed, followed by Belgium, where babies named [Mohammed] make up 1%

August 24, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Ynet) There is a dramatic rise in the name “Mohammed” and its variations across Europe, the Daily Mail said in a report, underscoring demographic changes linked to immigration. According to the report, over the past 25 years, the number of babies given […]

As election nears, Polish PM warns of ‘Islamic fighters’ among migrants

October 12, 2023 Alan Charlish

(Reuters) Islamic militants will be among migrants heading for Europe as a result of the conflict in Israel, Poland’s prime minister said on Thursday, as his governing party burnishes its anti-immigrant credentials in the run-up to a national election. The nationalist Law […]

Polish government plans referendum asking if voters want ‘thousands of illegal immigrants’

August 13, 2023 Vanessa Gera

(AP) Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party […]

Greece to the EU: Come help stop migrant boats before they get here ‘These tragedies will continue to happen unless we stop departures from Libya,’ Greece’s migration minister told POLITICO following a shipwreck that killed hundreds.

July 16, 2023 Gregorio Sorgi and Jacopo Barigazzi

(Politico) Greece wants the EU to stop migrant boats before they even get to Europe. In an interview with POLITICO, newly appointed Greek Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis called on the EU to resume an operation that aims to halt migrants before leaving […]

Poland’s lawmakers open the way for a national referendum on whether to take in more migrants

July 7, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Poland’s lawmakers on Friday approved law amendments that open the way for a national referendum on accepting migrants to be held in conjunction with the country’s general election, which is expected this fall. Poland’s conservative government has vetoed the European Union’s […]

The leaders of Italy and Poland say European Union should focus on stopping migration

July 5, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) The European Union should put a priority on stopping illegal migration instead of trying to persuade the 27 member nations to share responsibility for people who arrive without authorization, the prime ministers of Italy and Poland said Wednesday. Italy’s right-wing leader, […]

Poland, Hungary block mention of migration in EU leaders’ statement

June 30, 2023 Jan Strupczewski

(Reuters) Poland and Hungary refused on Friday to sign up to conclusions of a European Union summit over two paragraphs on migration, a move diplomat[s] said aimed to demonstrate their anger over being outvoted earlier this month on new migration rules. The […]

Polish PM to oppose migration deal at EU summit

June 29, 2023 Alan Charlish, Pawel Florkiewicz and Marek Strzelecki

(Reuters) Poland will demand the reform of the European Union’s border agency Frontex and more funds for dealing with migrants, the prime minister said on Thursday, as he prepared to oppose a migration deal at an EU summit in Brussels. Under the […]

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia

August 4, 2022 Vanessa Gera

(AP) Polish officials on Thursday reported a change in migration patterns across the country’s border with Belarus, with Africans who first traveled to Russia making up most of those seeking to enter Poland illegally by that route instead of people from the […]

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out

June 30, 2022 Vanessa Gera and Kirsten Grieshaber

(AP) A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and top security officials visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall. On Friday, Polish […]

Central European nations back Poland in migration dispute

November 23, 2021 Justin Spike

(AP) The leaders of three Central European countries on Tuesday expressed their solidarity with Poland in an ongoing migration crisis on its eastern border with Belarus, and urged the European Union to increase its support for the protection of the bloc’s external […]

Michel opens door to EU funding for border walls The EU has long refused to allow such financing, but is under increasing pressure to relent amid the Belarus migrant crisis.

November 10, 2021 Lili Bayer

(Politico) European Council President Charles Michel turned heads Wednesday when he claimed the EU could legally fund border barriers — calling into question a long-standing EU refusal to allow such financing. “Based on an opinion of the Legal Service of the Council, […]

EU accuses Belarus of ‘trafficking’ migrants toward border

November 10, 2021 Vanessa Gera, Monika Scislowska and Geir Moulson

(AP) European Union officials on Wednesday accused Belarus of state-sponsored “trafficking” of human lives by luring desperate migrants to the Polish border — the edge of the EU — where many are now stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather. As the […]

Tensions rise in migrant standoff at Poland-Belarus border

November 9, 2021 Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska

(AP) Poland reinforced its border with Belarus with more riot police on Tuesday, a day after groups of migrants tried to storm through a razor-wire fence on the eastern frontier where thousands have camped on the Belarusian side in the tense standoff. […]

Migrants aided by Belarus try to storm border into Poland

November 8, 2021 Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera

(AP) Hundreds if not thousands of migrants sought to storm the border from Belarus into Poland on Monday, cutting razor wire fences and using branches to try and climb over them. The siege escalated a crisis along the European Union’s eastern border […]

Polish lawmakers approve Belarus border wall

October 29, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Polish lawmakers on Friday gave the go-ahead to build a controversial wall on the EU member’s eastern border with Belarus, in response to an unprecedented wave of migrants, mostly from the Middle East. The wall will cost an estimated 353 million […]

Belarus opposition leader warns of border migration crisis

October 6, 2021 Vanessa Gera

(AP) Belarus’ exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Wednesday urged the global community to stop a “humanitarian catastrophe” which she said is being created by the Belarusian regime facilitating largescale migration into the European Union. Thousands of migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan […]

Poland sending 500 more troops to protect Belarus border

September 20, 2021 Monika Scislowska

(AP) Poland is sending 500 additional army troops and special vehicles to its border with Belarus to strengthen it against increasing migrant pressures which the government says is orchestrated by Belarus and Russia to destabilize the European Union. “We are dealing with […]

Poland’s, Lithuania’s PMs discuss higher security, migration

September 17, 2021 Monika Scislowska

(AP) The prime ministers of Poland and Lithuania said Friday that tighter security at their borders with Belarus was the best way to ease pressure from migrant inflows there, as they expect what they called a “hybrid attack” from Belarus to continue. […]

Merkel appeals to Belarus over border ‘hybrid attacks’

September 11, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Belarus to help migrants instead of trying to send them across the border into the European Union, branding these attempts “hybrid attacks.” On a visit to Poland, Merkel addressed the influx of migrants — mostly […]

Polish lawmakers uphold state of emergency at Belarus border

September 6, 2021 Vanessa Gera

(AP) Poland’s parliament voted Monday to uphold the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that was declared last week amid migration pressure. The vote came after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told lawmakers that the country faces a threat from Russia […]

Poland seeks state of emergency along border with Belarus

August 31, 2021 Vanessa Gera

(AP) Poland’s government asked the president Tuesday to declare a state of emergency along the border with Belarus as it tries to stop migrants from entering from the neighboring country. The government cited the potential risk from foreign actors and the actions […]

Poland claims neighbor invites migrants, pushes them across

August 24, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Poland’s prime minister insisted Tuesday that efforts by Middle Eastern migrants to enter the European Union country from neighboring Belarus are part of a plot by the Minsk regime to sow political instability in the EU. Mateusz Morawiecki spoke in Kuznica, […]

EU neighbours jointly rebuke Belarus for illegal migrant surge

August 21, 2021 Joanna Plucinska and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk

(Reuters) The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia came together on Saturday to condemn Belarus for allowing migrants to illegally cross its borders into the European Union. “All European Union member states have a duty to protect borders and to stop […]

Poland insists neighbor Belarus uses migrants as a ‘tool’

August 19, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Poland’s prime minister vowed Thursday that his country would stand firm and block migrants, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have been seeking to enter from neighboring Belarus. Poland accuses the authoritarian government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending the […]

Central European leaders worry over Afghan migration ‘wave’

July 9, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Central European leaders on Friday voiced concern over what they said was a potential migration rush from Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO forces pull out from that country. They also complained that a small group of powerful countries within the European […]

Poland’s president says migrants should stay close to their countries

September 25, 2020 Anna Koper

(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 […]

Visegrad Four grouping push back on new EU migration plan

September 24, 2020 Alicja Ptak, Anita Komuves, Robert Muller and Jan Strupczewski

(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 […]