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File photo used for illustration: It is not uncommon that migrants who first land in Italy or Greece travel onward to Germany and apply for protection there. Under current EU rules, the member state where asylum seekers first register is in charge of proceedings | Photo: Valeria Ferraro/picture-alliance/dpa//SOPA Images/ZUMA Press Wire
File photo for illustration: Many unaccompanied minors who arrive in the Canary Islands, Spain are placed in migrant reception centers | Photo: picture alliance/dpa/EUROPA PRESS
A picture from the Polish Border Guard shows one of a series of controls across Poland to check the legality of people's stays in the country in early March | Source: Press office Polish Border Guard www.strazgraniczna.pl
The port of Nieuwpoort, Belgium, is only about 20 kilometers away from the French border | Photo: AFP
Italian authorities transferred 80 migrants to repatriation centers in Albania in the second half of February 2026 | Photo: ANSA