Understanding Europe

This handout photograph released on August 10, 2026, by the Berck sur Mer branch of French volunteer sea rescue organisation Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) shows migrants on a dinghy attempting to cross the English Channel off the coast between Berck and
Merlimont, northern France | Photo: Handout SNMS Berck sur Mer / AFP
File photo: 'We don't accept uncontrolled immigration to Europe,' the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen have announced | Photo: Palazzo Chigi / dpa / Bildfunk
Integration courses are part of the requirements under the Integration Act | Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/ZB/picture alliance
Tens of thousands of people attempted to cross from Morocco into Ceuta during a major migration surge that authorities linked, among other factors, to misleading information circulating online | Photo: Antonio Sempere/AP Photo/picture alliance
Nearly 2, 000 migrants have reached Ceuta over the past two weeks, most by swimming around the Tarajal breakwater separating Spain from Morocco |   Photo: Antonio Sempere / JNA via Zuma Press Wire