Moroccans make up the largest part of the migrant community on the small Sicilian island of Salina. Many have been living there for years and the island is being held up as an example of how integration can work positively.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for border controls and a "fair distribution" of migrants within the EU ahead of his visit to Italy.
In a bid to curb irregular migrant arrivals, Latvia's government has decided to close one of its two border crossing points with Belarus. The Latvian prime minister accused Belarussian ruler Lukashenko of again using irregular migra1
The new figure is a sharp rise from the previous daily cost of £6 million and coincides with an unprecedented backlog of asylum cases, prompting calls for swift action to address the mounting costs.
German police say they have arrested a 15-year-old Syrian who was behind the steering wheel of a van with 27 smuggled people on board. The number of irregular border crossing attempts into Germany from Poland has been on the rise th1