Twenty foreign farmhands working "off the books" were discovered in the countryside near Caserta, in the Campania region, during operations carried out by local labor inspectors and Carabinieri police. Authorities subsequently issue1
Greek police have asked neighboring Turkey to conduct a search and rescue operation to help a group of Syrians stranded in the Evros river. A young girl among the group is reported to have died and another is in a critical condition.
Turkey has claimed that it has rescued a total of 130 migrants over the last 48 hours. It says the migrants had been trying to reach Greek islands in the Aegean and were pushed back by Greece.
The Catholic charity Caritas says they are seeing increasing numbers of migrants passing through the town of Vengimiglia on the Italian-French border.
Waiting times for family reunification visas in Germany are getting longer, despite a pledge by the Scholz government to make the process fair and more efficient.