An orientation center for migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and Italian nationals has been opened in Italy's northeastern port city of Trieste by MSF alongside Donk Humanitarian Medicine Odv.

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, reported on February 13 that there had been a 60 percent reduction in irregular border crossings to the EU in January compared with the same month in 2025.

Cyprus currently holds the rotating EU Presidency. Since mid-December, a series of raids and police checks have seen more than 160 people removed directly from detention centers and prisons and almost 480 voluntary departures. Raids1

The UK Home Office confirmed that compensation would be paid, but also said that under expanded provisions of the new Border Security Act, phone seizures have begun at migrant holding facilities, with technology on site ready to dow1