In the early hours of October 22, a group of 245 migrants from various nationalities, including Syrians, Pakistanis, Egyptians, and Bengalis, were safely rescued near Lampedusa, averting a potential tragedy at sea.
In Cyprus, a ring of alleged human traffickers were arrested Monday (October 23). Over the weekend, a teenager suspected of smuggling was found hiding from police in a trash can.
A general election in Switzerland has handed more power to the popular Swiss People’s Party, which campaigned against "mass immigration".
More migrants entered Germany irregularly in September than in any month over the past seven years. Germany's interior minister Nancy Faeser is looking to ease deportation procedures.
Due to its aging population, Italy would need at least 280,000 foreign workers a year until 2050 to compensate for the shrinking national labor force, the IDOS Study and Research Centre has said ahead of the publication of its 20231