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  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    Scholz accuses Poland of ‘waving through’ refugees as visa scandal deepens

    German chancellor demands investigation into allegations that Warsaw tolerated a cash-for-visas scheme

    Olaf Scholz
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    ‘Thousands of people need help’: lawyers fight for refugees

    Pro bono legal teams are finding creative ways to support vulnerable people worldwide, but the scale of the challenge is vast

    Illustration of persons walking on a ‘bridge’ of paper sheets
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Meloni calls for EU help to deal with surge in migrant arrivals

    European Commission pledges more manpower for registrations on Italian island of Lampedusa

    Migrants arrive on a ship to the harbour of Italian island of Lampedusa
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    UK immigration
    Tories hit out at Labour plan for migration deal with the EU

    Sir Keir Starmer proposes returns agreement with the bloc under which UK would take in asylum seekers

    Montage of Sir Keir Starmer in front of migrants on a small boat
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Starmer vows to strike a UK migrants ‘return agreement’ with EU

    Conservatives warn deal will force Britain to accept asylum seekers from across the bloc

    A UK Border Force ship rescues migrants crossing the English Channel in a small boat
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Germany suspends voluntary deal to take in migrants arriving in Italy

    Berlin says Rome is not meeting its obligations under the EU’s Dublin asylum rules

  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    UK immigration
    UK charities call for safe routes for asylum seekers after channel deaths

    Number of illegal small boat crossings has increased since security measures were imposed at French ports

    A UK coastguard vessel brings migrants picked up at sea to shore in Dover
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italian coast

    Survivors stranded at sea for several days after boat that left Tunisia last week capsized

    The Italian coast guard pulls people from the water
  • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
    Kim Ghattas
    Courting Middle Eastern autocrats won’t solve Europe’s refugee crisis

    Their repressive rule is forcing thousands to make the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean

  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    EU launches inquiry into handling of migrant disaster off Greek coast

    Inquiry will examine border control agency’s operations after hundreds died when fishing vessel sank in June

    Aerial view taken from a rescue helicopter of migrants onboard the Adriana fishing vessel off the Peloponnese coast of Greece on June 13
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    What Spain’s messy election result means for Europe Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: A conference in Rome follows up on a controversial EU migration deal

    Spanish voters surprised pollsters yesterday as both the right and left failed to secure a clear path to forming a government
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    German politics
    Regional CDU leader calls for Germany to restrict right to asylum

    Saxony’s prime minister claims constitutional change to limit numbers of arrivals would help avert the rise of the far right

    Saxony’s prime minister Michael Kretschmer
  • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
    Poland’s ruling party primes migration vote to coincide with election

    Rightwing Law and Justice party aiming to use referendum to blindside liberal rival Donald Tusk

    PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski at the Polish-Belarusian border in May
  • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
    Global migration
    Domicile: amid migrant crisis, nations woo footloose rich Premium content

    The prizes for countries hosting the wealthy are higher consumption, employment and investment

    Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge seen over rooftops
  • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    Fortress Europe is hungry for overseas workers Premium content

    The EU pursues a two-track policy of cracking down on irregular migrants and filling its workforce with foreigners

    A photo provided by the Hellenic Coast Guard shows migrants onboard a boat during a rescue operation before it capsized in the open sea off Greece
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    EU enlargement
    EU urged to seek ‘constructive engagement’ with Turkey

    Russia’s war in Ukraine has forced rethink of bloc’s attitude to Ankara and other neighbours

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    EU foreign policy
    How the EU agreed sanctions on Belarus to unlock a migration deal Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Can mining really be climate-friendly?

    Alexander Lukashenko
  • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
    Tunisia agrees deal with EU to tackle Mediterranean migration routes

    Brussels to provide €100mn to strengthen border controls as numbers crossing to Italy by boat double in a year

    Tunisia’s Maritime National Guard intercepts a boat trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    EU and Tunisia in ‘difficult’ negotiations over migration deal Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why Emmanuel Macron will stay silent this Bastille Day

    In June, EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Dutch premier Mark Rutte and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tunisia’s president Kais Saied to announce an economic support package that has yet to be signed
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    Erdogan’s move to reheat EU accession is a challenge to Brussels Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How the issue of migration can make or break European governments

    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands next to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
  • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
    Alternative für Deutschland
    The sun rises in the east for Germany’s far right Premium content

    Elections in three states next year will test the popularity of Alternative for Germany in the former GDR

    Björn Höcke, Alternative for Germany’s regional leader in Thuringia
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Netherlands politics
    Dutch government collapses after immigration dispute

    Differences on asylum policy split PM Rutte’s coalition of centre-right and liberal parties

    Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Italian politics
    Italy’s Giorgia Meloni opens door to more workers from outside the EU

    Prime minister accused of hypocrisy over plan to fill labour gaps while cracking down on irregular migrants

    Migrants wait to disembark ship in Salerno
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Tunisia accused of dumping migrants on Libya border

    Hundreds said to be trapped in desert with no food or water while EU tries to stem flow

  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Europe Express
    EU enlargement on the menu as leaders meet at breakfast Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Hungary and Poland block agreement on migration

    Olaf Sholz and Emmanuel Macron
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