French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed the creation of a Schengen Council to "better anticipate crises and react more quickly, as Europeans, to evaluate our frailties and better protect our external borders."
Italian Labor Minister Andrea Orlando has warned against the risk of a new form of exploitation of migrant farmworkers in Italy, a "digital gang-master system." He reiterated that the government is committed to fight the exploitatio1
Lebanon's forests have been devastated by illegal logging and forest fires. Working on their restoration can help female refugees to integrate and earn a living.
A migrant died of electrocution on top of a train headed from Italy to France on Tuesday. Several migrants have died this way in the area between the Italian city of Ventimiglia and the French city of Menton in recent years.
On Wednesday, Turkish authorities discovered eleven bodies near the border region with Greece. A twelfth person was discovered with frostbite who later died in hospital. On Thursday, they claimed to have found four more dead bodies.