Fortress Denmark wants to send its asylum seekers outside Europe
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Ban on new asylum seekers to Scotland ‘could last for years’
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Many people-smugglers send asylum seekers across the Channel in dangerously small boats – PA Media The temporary ban on accepting new asylum seekers into Scotland could last for years, the BBC has learned. Glasgow City Council is the only local … Read More
More COVID cases and fewer vaccines for EU’s migrants
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A man receiving a shot of the vaccine against COVID-19 at a mobile NPHO unit at Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos island, Greece | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/VANGELIS PAPANTONIS According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), COVID-19 hit … Read More
EU states abandon Italy on relocating asylum seekers
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Ireland and Lithuania have each agreed to take 10. Luxembourg has also offered to help. (Photo: noborder network) Calls in early May for EU states to help relocate asylum seekers from Italy have largely been ignored. The European Commission had … Read More
Hundreds of asylum seekers in UK told they could be removed to European countries
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Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during a media briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic in Downing Street, London, on January 21, 2021. – Copyright AP Photo More than 1,500 asylum seekers in the UK have been left in limbo after being told … Read More
Denmark asylum: The Syrian refugees no longer welcome to stay
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Faeza Satouf, here speaking at a protest in Copenhagen, is one of the refugees who has had her status revoked – Getty images When Denmark became the first European country last month to revoke residence status for more than 200 … Read More
EU leadership comments on mass migrant inflow to Ceuta: “Europe will not be intimidated”
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Photo: AP Photo / Javier Fergo Europe “will not be intimidated by anyone,” Vice President Margaritis Schinas of the European Commission said after a record number of migrants entered Ceuta in Spain. Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city on the … Read More
More migrants cross English Channel in small boats
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More than 2,000 migrants have made the crossing by small boat since January – Leon Neil The Home Office said 49 people managed to cross the English Channel in three small boats on Saturday. The groups were apprehended just after … Read More