Migration crisis
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Cyprus
Greece Aims to Build a Wall at Sea
As migration from Turkey and North Africa picks up once again, Southern Europe is scrambling to find coping solutions. Greece,…
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Europe
Juncker Proposes Massive Increase in European Border Force and Partnership with Africa
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, in his State of the Union address last week, called for increasing the European…
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Europe
“Compact with Africa” Initiative Takes Aim at Roots of Mediterranean Migration Crisis
Barca walla barzakh – Barcelona or death – became a rallying cry for thousands of young Senagalese seeking new life…
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Europe
New EU Migration Plan Aims to Speed Up Claims Processing & Create Deals with Countries of Origin
Europe has a new blueprint for dealing with the waves of refugees and other migrants from Africa and the Middle…
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France
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: France’s National Motto, Now Codified, Safeguards Humanitarianism
In a landmark decision last month, France’s Constitutional Council ruled that “fraternity is a constitutional principle”, thus grounding in law…
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Portugal
Portugal’s Vitorino to Become Next Head of the International Organisation for Migration
In what has become the latest in a string of high profile, international roles to go to a Southern European,…
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Cyprus
Southern EU Countries Reveal Forensic Initiative to Identify Missing Migrants
Since the beginning of 2018, over 24,000 migrants and refugees have entered Europe through a perilous journey across the Mediterranean,…
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Italy
Migrants Revive Dying Italian Towns
Despite Italy’s economic turnaround over the past few years, hundreds of once prosperous Italian villages have become ghost towns as…
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Europe
Migration Policies and the Future of the Union
In 2016 alone, The EU granted asylum to and resettled over 720,000 refugees – three times as many as Australia,…
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Spain
Is Spain Becoming Europe’s Next Gatekeeper?
The head of Frontex, European’s Border and Coast Guard Agency, has projected that the amount of migrants attempting to reach…
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