The international non-government organization has urged a new committee on migration in Spain to focus on the needs of young migrants. The number of unaccompanied minors reaching Spain doubled in 2023.
The bodies of four migrants have been transferred from Lampedusa to the main island of Sicily. The migrants – including a toddler – died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in November.
The Bundestag parliament has passed a bill that aims to enable easier and swifter expulsion of failed asylum seekers. The opposition argued that the provisions would prove ineffective.
A group of at least 100 people, among them young children, were stopped from approaching a beach at Sangatte, from where they had planned to cross the Channel to the UK.
Albania’s constitutional court is reviewing the asylum deal the country signed with Italy. Under the agreement, claims for asylum in the European Union would be processed externally on Albanian soil.