The Finnish government has announced it will take in 175 vulnerable asylum seekers from various camps in Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Malta. It hopes its gesture will help to "alleviate the humanitarian situation," in the Mediterranean1
Three European Catholic cardinals have written a letter to the Episcopal Conferences of the European Union calling for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece, in particular on the island of Lesbos, to be relocated to other EU countri1
Protesters in Hanau held up a banner saying "together against terror and anti-Muslim racism" during new demos. The march came in the wake of an attack in the German town that saw nine people shot dead.
The UN Migration Agency IOM said in a statement that over 2,000 migrants "remain detained in deplorable conditions" in Libya. They called on EU states to ensure that migrants rescued at sea are not sent back.
The president of Mediterranea Saving Humans has said that European policies have turned the Mediterranean "into a graveyard." An estimated 20,0000 migrants have died on the Mediterranean Route since 2014.