Understanding Europe

The Spanish government has announced that authorities are working to expand temporary migrant accommodation and provide additional resources to manage the situation in Ceuta | Photo: AP Photo/Antonio Sempere - Antonio Sempere
Police stand guard as migrants gather near a makeshift beach camp to be relocated to official shelters across the city after authorities cleared the site, following a mass crossing from Morocco, in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, August 20, 2026 | Photo: REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Arriving in Britain is only the first step for many asylum seekers; the Home Office explains that integrating into the UK means understanding how to act and behave | Photo: May James/ZUMAPRESS/picture alliance
File photo: According to the report, 821 people died or went missing on the Central Mediterranean route, a 111 percent increase compared with the same period in 2025 | Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki / Reuters
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