Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor from the Conservative CDU party, has vowed to increase deportations of asylum-seekers and block them from entering Germany via other EU countries, leaving those at risk in fear.
Called "the worlds largest displacement crisis" by UNHCR, more than a million Syrians want to return to their areas of origin. Adequate housing, employment and basic services are challenges facing them if they go back.
A court in Italy has just ruled that the state must pay compensation to a group of migrants who were held on an Italian coast guard ship, the Diciotti, for several days and prevented from disembarking in 2018.
Germany’s second Dublin deportation center opened near the Polish border on March 1, 2025. The centers aim to accelerate the transfer of rejected asylum seekers, something that hasn't worked so well for Germany in the past.
This week, the UN Migration Agency (IOM) and the International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP) completed a humanitarian hub in Chad to help 220,000 people affected by the escalation of the ongoing civil war in Sudan.