The Netherlands has suspended a controversial restriction on the rights of recognized refugees to reunite with their immediate families. The change of course came after the highest court in the country ruled on Wednesday that the re1
Bulgaria has again faced accusations that its border authorities have subjected migrants to beatings, humiliation and racist language. Bulgarian authorities have denied the allegations.
Asylum applications in January more than doubled compared to the same time period in the previous year, government figures show. A growing accommodation shortage is dividing regional parliaments and the local communes.
The Tuscan branches of the Migrantes foundation and Caritas have said that they are against the building of a migrant repatriation center in the city of Florence.
Spanish rescue services say they found at least one deceased person on a rubber dinghy with 42 other migrants on board. They were brought to Lanzarote in the early hours of Wednesday morning.