Greek migrant reception centers are overflowing and can barely cope, Greece's Refugee Council and aid organizations have warned. Asylum seekers in Kos don't have access to a doctor, new arrivals in Rhodes are met without housing and1
Thousands of Nigerians will likely be affected by German government plans to step up deportations of rejected asylum seekers. But experts warn about an insecure environment for migrants repatriated to Nigeria.
The Interior Ministry has rejected a report from newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung which claimed Germany plans to equate humanitarian workers saving lives at sea with people smugglers so that they can be prosecuted.
Pjerin Ndreu, the Mayor of Lezha, the Albanian Municipality where facilities are destined to be constructed as per the agreement between Italy and Albania on migrants, is downplaying the worries and controversy surrounding the issue1
The NGO Emergency has criticized Italy's plan to send migrants rescued at sea to centers in Albania, describing it as "yet another attack on the right to asylum."