Italian Labor and Social Policies Minister Andrea Orlando has stressed the need to integrate migrants to fill voids in the country's labor market. He said that legal pathways of immigration must be built in Italy.
Ten Kurdish asylum seekers in Poland have now been refusing to eat for three weeks straight in protest of what they described as prison-like conditions and slow asylum procedures.
Greece plans to extend the steel fence on its land border with Turkey. Athens says tens of thousands of migrants have been stopped from crossing the Evros border in recent months.
The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking has received the green light to disembark in Sicily 294 persons rescued from distress at sea. Some of the survivors have been holding out on the ship for ten days and nights.
Napoli football star Kalidou Koulibaly has donated uniforms and towels to the football team Arci Mediterraneo, whose players are immigrant citizens, to support this initiative of integration.