Following recent divisions over migration and Italy’s hard-line anti-immigrant policy, the EU proposed financial incentives to EU countries to admit migrants. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini dismissed the offer as mere "charity."
The EU is hoping it can persuade member states to volunteer setting up reception centers for migrants from Mediterranean rescue boats with one decisive argument: Money.
Dozens of migrants have been stranded on the Tunisian gas tanker Sarost 5 for 12 days as Tunisia refuses to disembark them at one of its ports. The captain insisted he doesn't want any outside help, only a solution.
Child asylum seekers in Greece have been denied an education due to migration policies confining them on the Aegean islands, Human Rights Watch has denounced. The organization asked Athens to scrap its containment policy.
UNHCR has launched an appeal for the safe passage of civilians in southern Syria, where fighting continues and about 140,000 people have been displaced.