Bavaria to stop cash payments to asylum seekers
Bavaria has become the first German state to approve the use of payment cards for asylum seekers. It's hoped that replacing cash benefits with cards will make the state less attractive to migrants.
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Italy's Lampedusa hotspot full again after hundreds arrive
Migrants from dozens of boats that had departed from Libya and Tunisia disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a space of only 26 hours.
IOM facilitates resettlement of over 30,000 Rwandan refugees since 2010
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) since 2010 has supported and assisted the safe resettlement of over 30,000 refugees from Rwanda, with the last departures for the Canadian city of Toronto which took place on Novemb1
UK's top court rules government's Rwanda policy 'unlawful'
The British government's plan to send asylum seekers who arrive by irregular means to Rwanda is not lawful, the UK Supreme Court says. The government says it "takes issue" with the ruling.
Italy-Albania migrant agreement worries the Council of Europe
Following the agreement between Italy and Albania, concerns were expressed by the Council of Europe and the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) on November 13 over the tendency to externalize the issue of migration.