After Lithuania built a fence on its border with Belarus, the numbers of migrants crossing the border into the country, and therefore the EU, have reduced, say the authorities.
The EU has opened a 400-bed hospital on the Turkish border with Syria. The initiative is one of the largest EU funding projects in Turkey, which has received more than €10 billion in funds since 2014 for its hosting of several milli1
Luca Traini, a far-right sympathizer who was sentenced to 12 years in jail for having seriously wounded six African migrants in a drive-by shooting in 2018, has received an award in a poetry competition in prison.
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a second attempt at increasing expulsions of illegal immigrants under fierce pressure from his far-right opponents.
Several hundred migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean in the last few days. The migrants were picked up by private rescue ships and the Italian coast guard. Four people are missing after a boat sank off Lampedusa.