UNHCR and ANCI sign agreement to strengthen reception system
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) signed an agreement to strengthen migrant reception in Italy on March 4.
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Italian co-op calls on government to address ex-warehouse occupied by homeless asylum seekers
Italy's Co-op Alleanza 3.0 is asking the country's public institutions to take charge of the situation at Trieste's Silos warehouse, which is currently occupied by hundreds of homeless asylum seekers.
Syrian teenager rescued in Austria on 'new' smuggling route
On Sunday, rescuers in Austria found a 14-year-old Syrian migrant in the mountains along the country's border with Slovenia. The teenager was "severely hypothermic and barely reactive" when he was located on what is being described1
German states face challenges brought by migration
Germany’s federal states feel overwhelmed by the tasks of housing, feeding, employing and schooling hundreds of thousands of migrants coming into the country.
Austrian minister pushes EU to consider repatriations to Syria and Afghanistan
Austria’s Interior Minister Gerhard Karner is pushing the EU to start considering sending migrants back to Syria and Afghanistan, an act currently illegal in the EU.