An emergency transit center for migrants in Briançon near the French-Italian border has been forced to close because of extreme overcrowding. The local mayor hinted that he was not sad at the news.
The EU must prepare itself for an increase in migration flows in the years 2023 and 2024 for mainly economic reasons, according to the EU agency Frontex's latest annual report on potential risks to the bloc.
A six-month-old Ivorian infant called Christmail, who lost his mother during a Mediterranean shipwreck, finds himself once again separated from the foster family that cared for him.
The government of the Spanish archipelago said that about 2,692 people arrived in August alone – more than double the number in the same month last year.
The number of migrants lodging asylum applications in the EU has jumped 28 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, official figures released Tuesday showed.