Europe should pay for walls against migrants, say ministers
Nearly half of the European Union member states want Brussels to pay for physical barriers to tackle the "political instrumentalization" of migrants.
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Nobel laureate calls on Europe to 'greet migrants with compassion, not barbed wire'
Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Tanzania, has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee."
Syrians under temporary protection in Turkey top 3.7 million
There has been a slight rise in the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey, according to the Turkish migration authorities. The city of Istanbul alone hosts more than half a million Syrian exiles.
5,000 migrants helped to get Green Pass in southern Italy
Many migrants in Italy are finding it hard or even impossible to get a Green Pass – the certificate of COVID-vaccination which they need in order to work. The aid group Intersos is trying to help.
UN targets on Afghan resettlements 'doable' says EU, but without commitments
The European Commission says a request from the UNHCR to resettle 42,500 Afghans in the next five years is "doable" but down to individual EU member states.