Three years after the discovery of 71 suffocated migrants in the back of a truck in Austria, the smugglers responsible have been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The ringleader was accused of "frightening indifference."
The UN agency International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that migrant arrivals in Europe this year dropped significantly from the same period last year, amid the European crisis over the case of migrant-rescue vesse1
More than 900 migrants disembarked at the port of Catania after being transferred to an Italian Coast Guard ship following seven rescue operations in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya. There were 200 children among the migran1
After chairing the government's integration summit, Merkel has called for a pan-European solution for illegal migrant arrivals currently concentrated in Italy, Greece and Spain. Her interior minister was absent.
Italy has remained firm in its decision to shut its ports to a ship carrying more than 600 migrants. But Rome insisted it is still willing to help asylum-seekers — under certain conditions.