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A young worker cycles through the streets of Rosarno, in Calabria. Farm workers travel by bike on dangerous roads that are unlit and in poor condition. Photo: Valentina Camu pour InfoMigrants
Channel crossings continued despite joint efforts by France and the UK to stop irregular migration | Photo: Gareth Fuller/picture-alliance; Graphic: InfoMigrants
2025 was a year marked by change for migrants as well as their host countries | Photo: InfoMigrants

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© Sameer Al-Doumy, AFP (Archives) | Migrants are shown onboard a smuggler's boat sailing past the French Maritime Gendarmerie in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Hardelot in Neufchatel-Hardelot, northern France, August 13, 2025.
Congolese refugee children continue to arrive in high numbers in Burundi | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
File photo: Rescue operations carried out off Crete and the Aegean Sea during the peak of the holiday season saw hundreds of migrant rescued | Photo: Michael Svarnias / picture alliance

Understanding Europe

File photo used as illustratino: Germany tightened borders and expanded its checkpoints, but 2025 showed an increase in visa approvals through regular channels | Photo: stadtratte/Shotshop/picture-alliance
File photo used as illustration: Ten years after hundreds of women were assaulted in Cologne at new year, what are attitudes towards migrants like in Germany today? | Photo: Christoph Hardt / picture alliance/Panama Pictures
File photo: Danish leader Mette Frederiksen (l) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (r) have written a joint letter, calling for a reinterpretation of the ECHR to meet the challenges of modern migration management policies | Photo: Photoshot / picture alliance