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File photo used as illustration: There are some safe and legal routes to Europe, but the majority still come via irregular routes as they appear to be their only option | Photo: Picture-alliance/AP/E.Morenatti
File photo used for illustration: Demonstrators waving a Persian flag in Berlin's Pariser Platz on January 6, 2018, protesting against the Iranian government system. The opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) had called for the event | Photo: Picture-alliance/Paul Zinken
File photo used for illustration: About a third of all housing in the Netherlands is social housing, with much of it run by housing associations | Photo: picture-alliance/Zoonar

News

File photo: Sweden's Migration Minister Johan Forssell has announced that he hopes to work with the Syrian authorities to return more Syrian migrants to their home country | Photo: Omar Havana / AP
File photo used as illustration: This boat left the coasts of West Africa and managed to arrive close to the Canary Islands at the begining of January 2025; many others are not so fortunate | Photo: Reuters
Ireland's Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan announced sweeping changes to the country's migration policy on Wednesday (November 26) | Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Understanding Europe

File photo used as illustration: The Berlin regional government is seeking to remove citizenship from a man who expressed support for Hamas just a day after his citizenship ceremony | Photo: Wolfgang Maria Weber/IMAGO
File photo: Supporters of the far-right political group, Confederation, take part in an anti-immigration protest in Krakow, Poland on July 17, 2025 | Photo: Picture-alliance
Things are likely to become much harder for people planning to approach the external borders of the European Union without clearance and permit | Photo: DesignIt/Zoonar/picture alliance