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."
The EU Ambassador in Turkey, Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut has promised that the European Union will continue to provide economic support to Turkey to assist refugees in the country.
An official British investigation into the November 2021 tragedy in which at least 27 migrants died in the English Channel suggests coastguard personnel may have developed a "mental threshold" of assuming that migrants were in "less1