The European Commission has proposed a new aid package worth over €39 million to increase border controls and 'migration management.' They also want to send Frontex officials to non-EU borders in the Balkans.
The UK's official borders watchdog has decried the "wretched conditions" encountered at a migrant processing center in Kent, UK. The facility in Ramsgate has been under fire for days, following reports of a diphtheria outbreak.
The Libyan coast guard reportedly ordered a Sea-Watch aircraft to leave or face being fired at with missiles. The Libyans ultimately pulled migrants from the Mediterranean before sinking their boat.
Matteo Salvini is back in the Italian government as deputy premier and infrastructure minister. In his first act as minister, he met the head of Italy's coast guards. Opposition politicians accused the League leader of 'promoting a1
Forty organizations and Italy's three leading trade unions have appealed to the government to revoke the 2017 Memorandum with Libya. Otherwise, the deal will be automatically renewed on November 2 for three years.