On May 15, the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mission in Syria, Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, announced that 500,000 Syrians had returned to their country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, on Dec1
Parental responsibility, not criminal activity – the European Court of Justice has ruled that a Congolese mother, who fled with her underage child and niece to Italy on false passports to claim international protection, should not b1
Nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the Polish presidential election on June 1. With his slogan "Poland first, Poles first," he targeted the million Ukrainian refugees living in the country. Poland is a member of NATO,1
In a new draft decree law, the German government is hoping to be able to single-handedly classify non-EU states like Algeria as safe countries of origin for asylum seekers. Most applicants from such countries have very low chances o1
Leader of the Netherland's far-right PVV party, Geert Wilders, said on Tuesday his party would quit the government due to lack of progress on plans to drastically reduce immigration. The withdrawal threatens to bring down the coalit1