The EU has approved new rules to facilitate greater access to databases to perform background checks on irregular migrants and asylum applicants in the bloc.
Following a visit to Poland, a UN expert praised the EU country for its hospitality toward Ukrainian refugees. At the same time, he criticized the "starkly different" treatment of asylum seekers and migrants coming from other countr1
Save The Children published a new report denouncing the fact that one in four victims of human trafficking in Europe is a minor, and launches the alarm on e-trafficking.
After a report leaked by Spiegel magazine, Germany's foreign minister called in Athens for an investigation into alleged pushbacks by Greece's border patrol that Frontex knew and did nothing about.
Three NGO rescue ships – the Geo Barents, the Ocean Viking and the Sea-Watch 3 – are currently waiting in the Central Mediterranean for a port to disembark the over 1,400 migrants they have rescued over the past week.