Last night it was reported that the suspected attacker was a 39-year-old father-of-four from Uzbekistan. The arrest was a result of a nationwide manhunt by police after issued a photograph of a lightly bearded man wearing a hooded top whom they wished to question in connection with the attack, which happened at around 2.45pm local time…
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Stockholm: Five dead and ‘large number’ of injured in terrorist attack
At least five people are dead and many more injured after a terror attack that saw a hijacked lorry plough into pedestrians outside a Stockholm department store. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said it appeared the crash was “a terror attack” and the country’s intelligence service said there was “a large number of injured”. …
Libya in focus of EU foreign ministers
Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez Seraj has asked the European Union to provide his government with ships and radars to help its forces stop the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean, according to diplomatic sources in Brussels. They said EU foreign ministers would review the “shopping list” at a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg, 3.04.2017,…
Rome: march aganist “EU tyranny”
A gathering of far-right activists waving banners with obscenities – “F*EU” – protested “tyranny in Brussels,” blaming eurocrats for inflicting poverty and chaos of migration flows upon Italians. The demonstration takes place while the EU leaders celebrate 60 years of the Treaties of Rome. The rally, which was called by the anti-immigrant Forza Nuova group,…
Europol struggling with traffickers
Suupported by Europol, the Spanish Guardia Civil has dismantled a criminal network accused of facilitating illegal immigration from Morocco to Spain, as well as trafficking hashish. It is estimated that the criminal network could have facilitated the entry of at least 300 irregular migrants, some of them minors, and made EUR 350 000 in profits….
EU to support Addis Ababa
The EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on an official visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (17.03.2017). Mogherini outlined the European Union’s efforts to support the humanitarian challenges in the Horn of Africa region, including the droughts affecting Ethiopia and neighbouring countries. The EU today announced additional €165 million in…
Italy wins EU extra funds for illegal migrants
This week the European Union nations agreed on a long-term budget for the EU including backing nearly 4 billion extra for managing illegal migrant flows and reinforce border control. The deal has been concluded after Italy withdrew the veto, imposed by then Prime Minister Matteo Renzi last October in an attempt to receive support from…
ECJ: humanitarian visa is a national competence
The EU’s top court based in Luxembourg ruled Tuesday that states can deny short-term humanitarian visas to people trying to enter to claim asylum, in a case of a Syrian family trying to come to Belgium. Top court in #Luxembourg says states can deny #visas to #refugees https://t.co/5qjPfPQMGj – #ECJ pic.twitter.com/tFp8bSo0lM — Luxembourg Times (@LuxTimes)…
MEP Atkinson questions NGO role in smugglings migrants
Ship-tracking software and reports from journalists prove that NGOs, the Italiann Coast Guard and smugglers coordinate their actions. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) exposes NGOs operating in Libyan territorial waters. Since the ouster of President Ghadafi, a growing number of Africans are smuggled into Europe. They travel via Libya from where they cross the Mediterranean….
MEP Wikström for reform of ‘Dublin’
On 9 March 2017 the reform of the Dublin system is debated in the European Parliament with Cecilia Wikström, MEP (ALDE, Sweeden), who will present her draft report to the Civil Liberties Committee. The draft report is a first response to the Commission’s proposal, presented in May 2016, for reform of the Dublin regulation, which…
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