The European Union and Albania have signed an agreement on border management. The accord reached between the Albanian Interior Ministry and EU border agency Frontex is the first signed with a third country.
In 2016, Italy was second only to Germany in the number of appeals to asylum application denials, but it is also the highest out of seven member countries of the Council of Europe in terms of appeals process wait times. The appeals1
Current tensions between Italy and Germany revolve around migrants known as "Dubliners": those who were registered in the country of first arrival (in this case, Italy), and then continued on to other countries in the European Unio1
The inquiry follows a series of right-wing press articles accusing the government of mismanagement of EU funds received in 2015 and 2016. Greece has been criticized in the past for its implementation of anti-graft laws.
With his announcement to take in several dozen orphaned Syrian children, Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini is making a slight break from other central European countries who have refused refugees.