Nearly one million asylum claims were lodged in the EU, Switzerland and Norway last year, the most since 2016. Syrians and Afghans remained the main applicants, while claims from Turkish nationals more than doubled.
Fast-track temporary visas for survivors of the Syrian-Turkish earthquakes are available only to Turkish nationals, despite widespread reports that Syrians were also eligible under new special procedures.
Organizers of the campaign "I Was a Foreigner" in Italy sent a letter to the Italian interior minister, asking for his intervention to finalize the regularization procedure of some 200,000 foreign workers.
The second European Conference on Border Management will take place in Athens, Greece, on February 23-24, as announced by the Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum.
On a visit to the West African country Ghana this week, two German ministers announced they would be supporting a program of employment migration from Ghana to Germany. Similar programs will be offered in several other countries on1