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Asylum seekers accompanied by Finnish border police personnel as they arrive at the border station Vartius in northern Finland near Kuhmo | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/JANNE KURONEN

Italy and Finland forge agreement against use of migration as 'hybrid instrument of influence'

Italy and Finland presented a joint document on migration at a Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, a joint session that gathered both ministers of foreign affairs and defence on April 22, showcasing a common stance on the issue w1

(L-R) Cyprus Asylum Service Director Andreas Georgiades, Malta’s Interior
Minister Byron Camilleri, Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando
Grande-Marlaska, Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Greece’s
Minister of Migration and Asylum Dimitris Kairidis at the MED5 Summit on April 20, 2024, in Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria | Photo: Picture-alliance

Asylum pact at center of Mediterranean nations MED5 summit

Interior and migration ministers of the MED5 group -- Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain -- met in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, to discuss the implications of the new EU migration and asylum pact. The Greek migration minister p1

Tens of thousands of African migrants brave the "Eastern Route" across the Red Sea and through Yemen to try to reach Saudi Arabia and beyond | Photo: International Organization for Migration/AP/picture alliance

Dozens dead, missing after migrant boat sinks off Djibouti

It is the latest tragedy on a route that has become popular among thousands of migrants trying to reach Gulf countries from the Horn of Africa.

Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande Marlaska (C), welcomes his counterparts of Italy, Matteo Piantedosi (2-R), Greece, Dimitris Kairidis (R), Malta, Byron Camilleri, and Cyprus, Andreas Georgiades, during the EU Med5 Ministerial Conference, in the Canary Islands on April 20, 2024 | Photo: EPA / Angel Medina G.

EU's Mediterranean states discuss challenges of new migration pact

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has told a group of Mediterranean countries known as Med 5 that managing migration will benefit the whole of Europe and not just the 'frontline states'.

Wimereux, near Calais. At least five migrants died in an attempt to cross the English Channel on April 23, 2024 | Photo: Reuters / Yves Herman

At least five migrants reported dead during attempt to cross Channel

French authorities say at least five people lost their lives as they tried to cross the English Channel on Monday night. A 7-year-old girl was among those who died.