The Danish government has announced that it will take 200 refugees from Rwanda under a resettlement quota scheme. But the door remains firmly closed to asylum seekers.

The British government was reportedly warned, several times, by its own advisers that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda might not be a sensible policy.

Calabria has allocated €10 million to renovate a former industrial complex and to create an environmentally sustainable 'village' for non-EU workers. Many migrants in the region are currently living in precarious housing conditions.

A six-year-old Afghan child, Yusuf, was killed last month when security forces shot at a minibus carrying migrants in eastern Turkey. No one has been held to account for his death.