Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic has sent a report to the Italian government detailing her visit to the country in June. In response, Rome has contested several of the assertions made in the report.
Greece’s prime minister is keen to get a bill through parliament this week that is aimed at legalizing 30,000 migrant workers to address labor shortages. This proposal has caused tensions within his party.
Two leading international human rights groups have accused Greek authorities of failing to properly investigate a boat sinking off the western Peloponnese coast on June 14 that killed hundreds of migrants.
Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said.
Starting Friday evening, Finland will again shut its borders with Russia, this time for one month, the Finnish government said. The move comes the same day Finland reopened two of its eight land border checkpoints with Russia.