A project has been activated in the town of Bronte on the Italian island of Sicily focusing on integrating foreigners in the agricultural sector to counter labor exploitation in the sector.

A former head of a consortium in Italy's Tuscany region has been sentenced to three years in jail for having evaded millions of euros in taxes while managing several migrant reception centers in the region.

Close to 50,000 people who were granted refugee protection in Greece have applied for asylum in Germany, Germany's interior ministry said. Out of 8,000 applications processed so far, nine in ten have reportedly been approved.

Activists on the Greek island of Lesbos over the weekend protested against the illegal pushback of migrants. A Greek minister, meanwhile, denied media reports accusing the country's coast guard of such illegal pushbacks at sea.