Germany and Poland are among the European countries that want greater efforts to stop migrants from crossing the EU's eastern borders. But Brussels has made it clear that it will not pay for "barbed wire and walls" with EU funds.

Hundreds of migrants rescued from the Central Mediterranean by the Geo Barents remained at sea over the weekend, waiting for permission to disembark. Two other private vessels have brought more than 500 rescued migrants to the Itali1

A judge in Agrigento has shelved a case against Sea-Watch 3 migrant rescue ship skipper Artuto Centore for allegedly favoring illegal immigration over the landing of 47 migrants on Lampedusa in 2019.

The director of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Coordination Office for the Mediterranean has denounced that disasters were responsible for 30.7 million newly internally displaced people in 149 countries this ye1