The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed hope that the Italian parliament changes Interior Minister Matteo Salvini‘s migrants and security decree to bring it into line with the Geneva Convention and international norms on human rights. UNHCR hopes for change to migrant decree. To bring it into line with Geneva…
Category: Immigration
Castaldo calls for Dublin Regulation reform
Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, the vice-president of the European Parliament, Italy, M5S Movement, calls for the urgent reform of the EU Dublin Regulation, which unequally shares burden of illegal migration flows. Unlike the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the Italian politician is convinced that the migrant crisis is far from being solved, reflecting profound structural problems…
Malta demands Aquarius to clarify its status
Fifty-eight migrants aboard the #Aquarius NGO rescue vessel will be trasported to Malta and from there to France, Germany, Portugal and Spain, after a deal was reached to share the responsibility for the arrivals among EU member-states. #Malta & #France again step up to solve #migrant impasse. 58persons to disembark in international waters,be distributed in…
Kurz regards Egypt as key partner in defeating human trafficking
Salzburg – After the Salzburg summit, the EU intends to deepen its migration cooperation with Egypt and other African countries. President of the European Council Donald Tusk said there was agreement to hold a summit with the Arab League in Egypt in February. On Thursday, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) described Egypt as exemplary in…
Channel human smuggler arrested in UK
A suspect wanted by Antwerp’s authorities for his connection with an alleged people smuggling network was arrested by the UK’s National Crime Agency in close cooperation with Belgian law enforcement. https://twitter.com/yorkspride/status/1042472885024186368 British national Saman Sdiq (33) was arrested at his home address in the UK September, 17. He is suspected of providing vehicles from the…
ANSA agency award for illegal migrants newswire
Italian news agency ANSA received one of two 2018 Mediterranean Caravel journalism prizes at the 10th Journalists of the Mediterranean Festival in Otranto for its newswire Infomigants, a multi-language service for migrants. ANSA wins award for Infomigrants. 'Mediterranean Caravel' prize goes to newswire for migrants https://t.co/rCyP1wwqaP — Ansa English News (@ansa_english) September 17, 2018 The…
EU-Italy relations on the rocks over illegal migrants flows
The European Commission has not responded to Italy’s threat to withhold funding to the bloc next year unless other member states accept migrants currently held on a ship moored in Sicily. Italy's Di Maio vows 'hard line' with European Commission over migrants on ship https://t.co/8MVXRck83N pic.twitter.com/1nLu8uSjCa — Reuters (@Reuters) August 24, 2018 Alexander Winterstein, a…
Sudanese immigrant arrested on terrorist charges in UK
A man arrested on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack at the UK Parliament has reportedly been identified as 29-year-old Salih Khater. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1029633134445383680 The suspect, a British national from Sudanese origin, has been identified by a European security source, Reuters reports. The was not known to intelligence services before, and he was not on the…
Salvini refueses Aquarius access to Italian ports
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said that the NGO migrant search-and-rescue ship Aquarius will not be allowed access to Italy’s ports, ANSA news agency reports. “Aquarius NGO ship with another 141 immigrants on board: German owned, rented by French NGO, foreign crew, in Maltese waters, flying the flag of Gibraltar,” Salvini wrote in his Twitter…
Migrants indignant about conditions in Italy
Migrant laborers staged a strike this week to protest at the deaths of 16 colleagues killed this week in two separate traffic accidents in southern Italy. Hundreds of migrant workers chanted "We are not slaves" as they walked off tomato fields in Italy to protest working conditions https://t.co/9J67TeAGpG — The New York Times (@nytimes) August…
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