Frontex: Drop in migrant arrivals to Europe
The EU border agency Frontex says the number of detected illegal border crossings into the EU has continued to fall. In the first trimester of 2019, the total was 27 percent lower than a year ago.
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Far-right group insults Genoa priest who helps migrants
An Italian neo-Nazi group has insulted on Facebook Father Giacomo Martino, who is in charge of the Migrants office of Genoa's diocese for his work to help migrants in the port city. The priest responded saying he is ready to meet th1
Italian prosecutors don't uphold Mare Jonio ship seizure
Prosecutors in Agrigento have rejected the preventive seizure of the NGO-run search-and-rescue ship Mare Jonio but have ordered to keep the vessel in custody in order to investigate evidence in a case in which the ship's captain is1
Serbia, 600 migrants apprehended in trucks at border in 2019
Serbian authorities reported that 600 migrants have been apprehended since the start of the year as they were attempting to illegally cross the border hidden in trucks. Meanwhile, migrants are continuing to arrive along the new Balk1
EU concerned by impact of Libyan crisis on migrant flows
The EU Council has declared in a statement that the European Union is "deeply concerned" by the "loss of human life, the growing number of internally displaced persons and the impact on migration flows" caused by the Libyan crisis,1