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The double fence, 12-meters high and 8-kilometers long, between Morocco and Ceuta | Photo: InfoMigrants
File photo used as illustration: Around 14,000 Bangladeshi migrants arrive in Italy each year but the journey there is difficult. Many will end up facing exploitation and disappointment in Libya. The lucky ones might be transferred home via the Bangladeshi embassy | Photo: Embassy of Bangladesh in Libya
Under Switzerland's direct democracy system, citizens can trigger popular votes by collecting 100,000 valid signatures within 18 months | Photo: Anthony Anex/Keystone/picture-alliance

News

From file: A displaced woman with a child walk outside a school-turned-shelter, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 3, 2026 | Photo: Mohamed Azakir / Reuters
File photo: A migrant boat rescued by Spain's sea rescue services in the Balearic Islands, August 19, 2025 | Photo: Europa Press
The survivors remain stranded hundreds of kilometers short of their destination in Mayotte | Photo: Ibrahim Youssouf/AFP

Understanding Europe

File photo of Oxford Street in London: The UK has overhauled its migration and asylum policy, impacting those who want to work, study, or seek international protection  | Photo: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire
A view of the Bundestag, the German Parliament | Photo: Reuters
File photo: Federal Administrative Court, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, 26 August 2025 | Photo: Peter Engelke/PIC ONE/picture alliance