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File photo: Construction of the Detention and Repatriation Center (CPR) in Gjader, Albania, October 2024. | Photo: LaPresse / ZUMA / picture alliance
© Abdel Majid Bziouat, AFP | Families watch as migrants return after crossing the border into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, at the Bab Ceuta border post near the town of Fnideq, Morocco on August 2, 2026.
Greenock looks like a typical Scottish town from a picture postcard - but its community is facing a serious demographic challenge | Photo: John Guidi/RobertHarding/picture-alliance

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File photo for illustration: A boat that set sail from the coast of West Africa managed to arrive close to the Canary Islands | Photo: Reuters
Embarkation of the survivors on the Sea-Watch 5.
In the late hours of Thursday, 13 August 2026 | Photo: Géraldine Morat Hofmaier / Sea-Watch
Greece has toughened up on asylum-seekers [Photo: 2021, Samos] | Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/picture alliance

Understanding Europe

Arriving in Britain is only the first step for many asylum seekers; the Home Office explains that integrating into the UK means understanding how to act and behave | Photo: May James/ZUMAPRESS/picture alliance
This handout photograph released on August 10, 2026, by the Berck sur Mer branch of French volunteer sea rescue organisation Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) shows migrants on a dinghy attempting to cross the English Channel off the coast between Berck and
Merlimont, northern France | Photo: Handout SNMS Berck sur Mer / AFP
Integration courses are part of the requirements under the Integration Act | Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/ZB/picture alliance