During a visit to the Gulf state, Italy's conservative foreign minister said Saudi Arabia can help encourage African nations to promote growth so that migrants have less economic incentive to migrate to Europe.
Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain want to boost repatriations of irregular migrants "promptly." These Med 5 countries also called on Brussels for more funding to deal with migration while noting that most of the current EU budg1
Germany's Foreign Ministry says the country will donate money to migrant rescue boat charities operating in the Mediterranean. This followed media reports saying it would be axed, amid no mention in next year's budget.
The Open Arms migrant rescue ship was placed under administrative detention for 20 days on Thursday (October 5), one day after delivering 176 rescued migrants to the Italian port of Marina di Carrara.
Spanish authorities on the Canary Islands have rescued 518 migrants who crossed the Atlantic in small boats. More than 1,200 migrants have made the crossing to El Hierro in the Spanish archipelago in the last six days.