Disgraced bodyguard of President Emmanuel Macron, Alexandre Benalla admitted he was using his diplomatic passports, “for personal comfort”, and plans to return “in the coming days,” he told the Journal du Dimanche (JDD), while the Paris prosecutor’s office opened investigation. Les affaires #Benalla ne révèlent pas simplement un dysfonctionnement, mais une dénaturation de notre République.Emmanuel…
Tag: Africa
Hundreds of Africans stormed Spanish border
One African illegal migrant died and three others were injured when a crowd of more than 300 people stormed the border fence separating Spanish enclave Melilla from Morocco, the local authorities informed. https://twitter.com/rubnpulido/status/1053948016049225728 Hundreds of illegal migrants managed to scale the seven-meter high metal barrier and were taken to a reception center in Melilla where…
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…
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…
MSF vows to continue transporting migrants to Europe
At arrival to port of Valencia (Spain) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) running the Mediterranean rescue operation on vessel #Aquarius gave press-conference, criticising the EU governments, and vowing to ignore the laws and continue to transport migrants from African coast to Europe. “The MSF team is determined to continue saving lives, and resist the intimidation…
External Action Service proposes €123 bln budget
“We now propose a new instrument that will cover pretty much the whole world – it is called the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI). It will be comprehensive in geographic and thematic terms. A few exceptions are, obviously, the candidate and potential candidate countries for membership to the European Union and the overseas countries…
EU laudits Spain for reception of migrant vessel
The EU Commissioner on Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos welcomed the decision of Spanish government to accept the vessel #Aquarius with 629 migrants on board transported from Libyan coasts to Italy. The Italian and Maltese governments repelled #Aquarius, belonging to NGO, which is notorious for exercising the transportation of illegal African migrants to Europe, abusing maritime law of…
#Aquarius: Spain accepts vessel with illegal migrants
Today the European Commission attempted to reduce the tensions around the notorious illegal migrants transport vessel #Aquarius repelled by Italian authorities, to a bilateral issue between Rome and Valletta. Spanish new Prime minister Pedro Sanchez stretched his had to Brussels, saving the EU image, while the solidarity between the member-states on illegal migrants issue is crumbling….
Kurz suggests Frontex mission in Africa to defeat traffickers
Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz suggested European border guards Frontex should be deployed in transit countries in Africa to prevent illegal migrants from undertaking crossings in the Mediterranean Sea in dinky boats, risking their lives. EU border patrol guards should be allowed to operate in northern Africa in order to prevent further migration to Europe, Austrian…
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