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Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Ferda Ataman (r) and Samera Bartsch, co-author of the study on discrimination, presented the findings in Berlin | Photo: Jens Thurau/DW
  • Germany

Discrimination is a widespread phenomenon in Germany

At the supermarket, when looking for a flat, at work: millions of people in Germany are victims of discrimination. A new study reveals just how bad the problem is.

File photo: Lipa camp outside Bihac, Bosnia, the building of which was protested by Croatian authorities, now Bosnian authorities and Croatians are worried about a similar camp being built on the Croatian side | Photo: Kemal Softic / AP Photo / picture alliance
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Croatia

Migration management measures reinforced in Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia

Croatia has announced plans to build a migrant reception center located near the border with Bosnia Herzegovina. Meanwhile, the presence of Frontex officers in Bosnia has also been reinforced.

Poland has put up a fence along its border with Belarus | Photo: Marcin Obara / PAP / dpa / picture alliance
  • Bulgaria
  • Greece
  • Latvia

80,000 migrants pushed back at EU borders in 2025, fewer than in 2024

According to a report by a coalition of European NGOs, more than 80,000 pushbacks took place at the European Union's external borders in 2025. This figure represents a 34 percent drop compared to 2024, which the associations attribu1

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News

Austrian authorities worked closely with their Europol counterparts for over two years to dismantle what is believed to be the single-biggest criminal group smuggling migrants into Europe to date | Photo: Erwin Scheriau/APA/picture alliance
  • Austria
  • Turkey

Austrian authorities bust smuggling gang that facilitated over 100,000 illegal entries into the EU

Austrian and Europol authorities have dismantled a major migrant smuggling ring following a 15-month investigation. Coordinated raids resulted in 130 arrests linked to the criminal network in seven EU countries so far. Vienna’s publ1

From file for illustration: Despite ongoing political and economic instability, young men from Afghanistan are now rarely granted protection status in Germany | Photo: picture-alliance
  • Afghanistan
  • Germany

Germany: Young Afghan men rarely granted protection status

Recognition rates for Afghan men aged between 18 and 40 have dropped sharply in Germany over the past year. The decline comes as the federal government adopts a more restrictive approach to asylum claims from Afghanistan.

From file: The EU is set to back policy which would let migrants ordered to leave the EU to be transferred to facilities outside the bloc | Photo: Florin Frederick/ AFP
  • Uganda
  • European Union

EU to support overseas migrant 'return hubs'

The European Union is set to approve a stricter migration policy that would allow rejected asylum seekers to be sent to return centers outside the bloc. Despite serious human rights concerns, supporters claim the plan will deter irr1

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Personal stories

'Authorities blame us for all the problems', say Senegalese migrants expelled from Mauritania

Since tightening its migration policy in 2025, Mauritania has carried out large-scale expulsions of undocumented migrants, but also sometimes of those with legal status. These individuals say daily life has become extremely difficult in a general context of hostility from the population, violence, and harassment by authorities. InfoMigrants collected the testimonies of three Senegalese nationals, all fishermen, who were affected by this anti-migrant policy.

Marie and her 7-year-old, imprisoned three times in Libya: 'I still have scars from how badly they beat me'

Marie and her seven-year-old daughter, Aya, are from Cameroon. They were imprisoned in the notorious Zawiya and Abu Salim prisons in Libya in 2024 and 2025, for several months each time. They now live in Zintan, south of the capital. Here is their story.

Mariam, a Guinean mother deported from Belarus without her baby

Mariam Soumah is a 23-year-old migrant from Guinea. It has been nine months since she last saw her baby daughter Sabina, to whom she gave birth in Belarus. That’s because Mariam was deported from Belarus, but without her baby. She’s fighting to be reunited with her.
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Understanding Europe

A view of the Bundestag, the German Parliament | Photo: Reuters
  • Germany

German Parliament agrees to implement Common European Asylum Policy, tightening rules still further

The German Parliament has voted in favor of implementing the new Common European Asylum System and has agreed on toughening up its approach to irregular migration still further. The measures aim to speed up asylum procedures and the1

File photo: Federal Administrative Court, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, 26 August 2025 | Photo: Peter Engelke/PIC ONE/picture alliance
  • Finland
  • Germany

Germany: Court rules on secondary asylum applications

Germany’s highest administrative court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) in Leipzig has ruled that a secondary application for asylum is only valid once the first application in another EU country has been completely closed and all appeals1

A vehicle being inspected by the French border police in Montgenèvre (Hautes-Alpes region). Archive photo: Mehdi Chebil
  • France

What are 'bans on circulation within French territory', issued to migrants in the Hautes-Alpes region?

The border police of France's Hautes-Alpes region have been issuing ICTFs (bans on circulation within French territory) to migrants since early January. Several associations described the practice as "illegal", which the Marseille A1

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