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Europol: Violent extremists take advantage of COVID-19 pandemic A new report on terrorist activity in the EU has highlighted the threat of online propaganda during the pandemic. The research shows Islamist and far-right extremists have posed the greatest threat.

June 22, 2021 Alex Berry

(Deutsche Welle) The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the spread of violent ideologies, according to a new report published by the EU’s law enforcement agency Europol on Tuesday. The report highlighted the prominence of online propaganda in building communities and encouraging lone wolf […]

Macron calls for more effective deportations of radicalised illegals

June 11, 2021 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered his ministers to do more to ensure the deportation of illegal migrants, particularly those involved in terrorist activities and who have been radicalised. President Macron made the order on Wednesday during a meeting with several […]

In migration lull, Greece bolsters border arsenal

June 10, 2021 Vassilis Kyriakoulis

(AFP) As the sun dips into the wetlands of northeastern Evros, Greece’s river border with Turkey, two Greek guards climb into a boat to begin their daily lookout for irregular migrants. Siren blaring, and with flamingos flying overhead, the guards sail past […]

Work on Greek migrant camp yet to begin 9 months after fire

June 9, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Almost 9 months after a fire gutted a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, work on a new reception center has still not begun despite pledges to have the facility built before next winter, Greece’s migration minister confirmed Wednesday. […]

Italy judge rejects case against migrant ship captain

May 19, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) An Italian judge on Wednesday dropped the case against a German captain arrested for forcibly docking her ship with migrants on board, the NGO that operates the vessel said. Carola Rackete was arrested in June 2019 after guiding the Sea-Watch 3 […]

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

May 18, 2021 Renata Brito and Aritz Parra

(AP) Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat. Overwhelmed soldiers […]

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 […]

UN says Europe needs more efficient mechanisms to handle migrant arrivals

May 10, 2021 John Chalmers and Marine Strauss

(Reuters) Europe could easily manage hundreds of migrants arriving on its shores if it had more predictable state-led systems to deal with such matters, the U.N.’s refugees chief said, pointing to the arrival of hundreds on Italy’s Lampedusa island at the weekend. […]

Turkish Coast Guard hassles Frontex forces

May 4, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Kathimerini) “Very serious” incidents that violated international regulations reportedly took place on April 26 and 27 involving vessels of the Turkish Coast Guard and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Kathimerini understands that the incidents occurred off the eastern Aegean […]

Denmark firm on returning refugees to war-torn Syria

April 27, 2021 Nikolaj Skydsgaard

(Reuters) Despite mounting pressure from lawmakers and civil society organisations, Denmark is determined to push ahead with efforts to return refugees to war-torn Syria as it claims conditions in parts of the country have improved. On Tuesday, the EU’s top migration official […]

‘2nd-class citizens’: Migrant camp plans [anger] Lesbos islanders

March 31, 2021 Chantal Valery

(AFP) On the Greek island of Lesbos, the notorious camp of Moria still casts a long shadow, more than six months after it went up in flames. And after six years of being on the frontline of migratory pressure from nearby Turkey, […]

EU commissioner holds migration talks with Greek officials

March 30, 2021 Elena Becatoros

(AP) The European Union’s home affairs commissioner was meeting Tuesday with Greece’s prime minister and foreign minister, a day after touring two of the eastern islands in the Aegean Sea most heavily affected by migration into Europe. The EU is currently working […]

EU says Turkey should ‘urgently’ resume accepting migrants from Greece

March 29, 2021 Chantal Valery and John Hadoulis

(AFP) The European Union said on Monday that Turkey must “urgently” resume accepting migrants from Greece, where thousands are being held in camps, days before EU chiefs are to visit Ankara. Greece, which has also been seeking support from EU allies in […]

EU official urges Greece to investigate reports of asylum-seeker pushbacks

March 29, 2021 Karolina Tagaris

(Reuters) Greece “can do more” to investigate reports it has pushed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a senior European Union official said on Monday, as Greek authorities pledged a new migrant reception centre on the island of Lesbos would open in time for […]

EU worried by shooting incidents near Turkey-Greece border

March 12, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) The European Union’s top migration official expressed concern Friday about a spike in the number of shooting incidents on the Turkish side of the country’s land border with Greece near where EU border officers have been patrolling. At least 3 incidents […]

Probe into EU border agency leaves some questions unanswered

March 4, 2021 Lorne Cook

(AP) An inquiry into claims that the European Union’s border and coast guard agency was involved in illegally pushing back migrants has found no link to Frontex in any of the incidents but has been unable to establish what happened in five […]

EU commissioner tells Bosnia to manage migration better

February 18, 2021 Antonio Bronic

(Reuters) The European Union’s migration commissioner [Ylva] Johansson urged Bosnia on Thursday to manage migration properly and share the burden of its migrant crisis equally across the country if it is to stay on course for EU membership. About 9,000 migrants from […]

EU lashes Bosnia for failing to properly care for migrants

January 19, 2021 Lorne Cook

(AP) The European Union’s top migration official on Tuesday criticized Bosnian authorities for failing to properly care for hundreds of migrants living in sub-zero temperatures on its territory, warning the Balkans country of its obligations if it hopes to join the EU. […]

EU watchdog opens investigation into border agency Frontex Organization faces allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks.

January 11, 2021 Jacopo Barigazzi

(Politico) The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog, OLAF, has opened an investigation into Frontex, the bloc’s border agency, over allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks, according to four EU officials. OLAF investigators have been interviewing members of the Warsaw-based agency “since the start […]

Morocco rebuffs EU request to re-admit third-country migrants

December 15, 2020 Ahmed Eljechtimi

(Reuters) Morocco has rebuffed a European Union request to take back third-party nationals who reach Europe from the North African kingdom, its interior ministry said on Tuesday. EU migration commissioner [Ylva] Johansson visited Rabat this month to seek a readmission agreement allowing […]

EU border chief wins support amid migrant pushback reports

December 9, 2020 Lorne Cook

(AP) The EU’s top migration official confirmed Wednesday that she retains confidence in the embattled head of Frontex, amid pressure on the bloc’s border and coastguard agency for an independent investigation of allegations it was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants. Asked […]

EU border chief urged to quit over migrant pushback claims

December 1, 2020 Lorne Cook and Tarik El Barakah

(AP) European Union lawmakers lashed out Tuesday at the head of Frontex over allegations that the border and coast guard agency helped illegally stop migrants or refugees entering Europe, calling for his resignation and demanding an independent inquiry. The lawmakers grilled Executive […]

Attacks spur EU to tighten borders, boost policy agency

November 13, 2020 Lorne Cook

(AP) European Union interior ministers pledged Friday to beef up border security, boost the powers of the bloc’s police agency and crack down on hate speech and online propaganda in response to a wave of extremist attacks, most recently in Austria and […]

France, Germany push for tighter EU borders after attacks

November 10, 2020 Thomas Escritt and Matthieu Protard

(Reuters) France and Germany pushed on Tuesday to tighten European Union borders to head off what French President Emmanuel Macron called the “threat of terrorism” after suspected Islamist militants killed eight people in Paris, Nice and Vienna within a month. The attacks […]

EU’s migration proposals draw anger on left and leave questions unanswered (LINK ONLY)

September 23, 2020 EoI News

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Divided Europe challenged to overhaul defunct migration policies

September 23, 2020 Gabriela Baczynska

(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 […]

No more Morias? EU to unveil long-delayed asylum plan

September 21, 2020 Anne-Laure Mondesert

(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 […]

Afghans face Greek prosecutor over fire at migrant camp

September 16, 2020 Camille Bouissou, Vassilis Kyriakoulis and John Hadoulis

(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, […]

Germany to take in 1,500 refugees from Greek islands

September 15, 2020 Vassilis Kyriakoulis, Camille Bouissou and Peter Wuetherich

(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 […]

Italy wants no more illegal migrants, minister tells Tunisia

August 17, 2020 Fethi Belaid

(AFP) Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a visit to Tunisia, from where many of them cross the Mediterranean Sea. After a meeting with the Tunisian President Kais Saied, Italy’s top […]

More than 1,000 terrorists arrested across Europe as 119 plots uncovered Almost all 2019 terrorism attack deaths in Europe were caused by ISIS, report reveals

June 24, 2020 Nicky Harley

(National-UAE) Almost 120 terrorist plots were uncovered across Europe last year, resulting in more than 1,000 arrests. ISIS was responsible for all but one of the 10 people killed. The latest figures covering terrorist incidents in 2019 have been revealed in Europol’s […]

EU slams Bosnia over its treatment of migrants

June 17, 2020 Sabina Niksic

(AP) The European Union has threatened to reconsider helping Bosnia to provide for thousands of migrants stuck in its territory over the Balkan country’s failure to take responsibility of the already established EU-funded reception centers. The warning has been delivered … in […]

Coronavirus may push more asylum seekers towards EU: agency

May 12, 2020 Gabriela Baczynska

(Reuters) The coronavirus lockdown has cut the number of asylum seekers able to reach Europe, but the pandemic could trigger more arrivals in future if it worsens turmoil to the Middle East and North Africa, the European Union asylum agency said. With […]

Greece quarantines camp after migrants test coronavirus positive

April 2, 2020 Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas

(Reuters) Greece has quarantined a migrant camp after 23 asylum seekers tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities said on Thursday, its first such facility to be hit since the outbreak of the disease. Tests were conducted after a 19-year-old female migrant living […]

EU asks Greece to move migrants most at risk from coronavirus out of crowded camps

March 24, 2020 Gabriela Baczynska

(Reuters) The European Union has asked Greece to move migrants most at risk of contracting the coronavirus from overcrowded camps on its Mediterranean islands, the EU’s top migration official told Reuters on Tuesday. Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said Athens had opposed […]

EU to give migrants in Greece €2,000 to go home

March 12, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) The EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It […]