Austria is set to bar asylum-seekers from taking up vacant training spaces while their claims are still being assessed. It marks the latest in a spate of restrictions placed on migrants by the right-wing government.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has proposed importing the "Pacific Solution" to resolve the migrant crisis. The programme is a hardline policy created by Australia.
A new administrative court specialized in international protection has been set up in Cyprus in order to speed up the examination of appeals against asylum claim rejections.
The 27 unaccompanied minors who disembarked the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti were "skeletons, tired, exhausted, confused", according to accounts from NGO workers who met them as they landed in Catania.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is reportedly being probed for his role in preventing migrants rescued at sea from disembarking in Sicily. Meanwhile, a deal has been reached to allow the migrants to leave the ship.