The number of high-skilled workers who have immigrated to Germany with the EU Blue Card further increased last year. Compared to 2018, close to 15% more non-EU residents arrived in Germany last year.

Following fires in cramped migrant worker settlements in southwest Spain and subsequent criticism by a UN official about "deplorable conditions" there, Spanish soldiers were deployed over the weekend to build a camp for migrant stra1

The leader of the right-wing League party, Matteo Salvini, has attacked the government during a visit to the migrant hosting center of Lampedusa, accusing it of being an "accomplice of smugglers".

Italian authorities have placed 56 people under investigation, arrested one person and placed four others under mandatory residence following an investigation into arranged marriages with Italian citizens to enable South American an1