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File photo used for illustration: More than 80,000 migrants have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands over the last two years from the West African coast | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/ADRIEL PERDOMO

Spain seeks to stem migration with vocational training in West Africa

The regional government of the Canary Islands has implemented a vocational training and apprenticeship program in Mauritania to create opportunities for young people and help reduce migration to Europe.

Italy has sent three groups of migrants to Albania, all of whom had to be sent back to Italy after a court in Rome ruled that they could not be kept in Albania | Photo: Armando Babani/ZUMAPRESS.com/picture alliance

Has Italy's Albania migrant deal completely failed?

One year after Albania's parliament ratified the country's migration centers deal with Italy, the two migrant holding centers constructed in Shengjin and Gjader stand completely empty. What happens next?

The percentage of voters with a foreign background in Germany is rising steadily | Photo: Karina Hessland/Reuters

German elections: Who do immigrants plan to vote for and why?

Germany is a multicultural, pluralistic society, where about 12 percent of eligible voters have a foreign background. In Germany, this is defined as a person who is at least one quarter non-German. While some of them have been allow1

Italy has sent three groups of migrants to Albania, all of whom had to be sent back to Italy after a court in Rome ruled that they could not be kept in Albania | Photo: Armando Babani/ZUMAPRESS.com/picture alliance

One year on, has Italy's Albania migrant deal failed?

One year after Albania's parliament ratified the country's controversial migration centers deal with Italy, the two migrant holding centers constructed in Shengjin and Gjader stand completely empty. What happens next?

Recent attacks in Munich, Aschaffenburg and Magdeburg have fueled a populist narrative on crime | Photo: Heiko Becker/REUTERS

German study: Immigration does not raise crime rate

A new study by a top German economic policy institute has confirmed the academic consensus: There is no correlation between increased migration and a rise in crime — despite the political debate.