EU common asylum policy

France has reportedly overtaken Germany for the first time in years as the top destination in the European Union for alleged asylum seekers, a survey from the governing Commission has found.

Poland will enact a temporary ban on asylum claims to “regain control and ensure safety” in the country, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The European Union (EU) requires a common asylum system with “uniform” standard of living across the bloc to ensure migrants remain in nations which are seen as less generous, Germany has said.

As tensions rose after journalists were turned away from a Red Cross refugee centre on the outskirts of Milan, about 100 asylum seekers took to the streets to protest over poor living conditions and bureaucratic delay. Although The Local reports yesterday

Churches have called on the government to “recognise” that migrants in Calais cannot be turned away and to “accept the need for the UK to take its share.” They also branded the British “self interested” and condemned the “dehumanising” language used

A Sicilian mayor credited with crushing the island’s mafia has called for Europe to grant free entry to all the migrants crossing the Mediterranean, arguing that outlawing immigration through non-official channels creates a market for trafficking to thrive in. He

The British and French governments have declared that the world is facing a “global migration crisis”. They have called countries from across Europe and Africa to assist in tackling the wave of migration currently washing across the continent. Meanwhile, the

EU home affairs ministers yesterday failed to reach agreement on the distribution across Europe over the next two years of the 40,000 mostly Syrian and Eritrean migrants and asylum seekers who landed in Greece and Italy. The decision on the scheme, which

Freital, Saxony has become the centre of a new wave of German anti-immigration protests after the opening of a new asylum ‘central camp’ took locals by surprise. Up to 1,200 Germans are meeting and marching every week-day evening in just one

Germany and France have volunteered to between them take in more than one third of the 60,000 asylum seekers that the European Commission wanted placed across Europe after many states objected strongly to mandatory quotas. Around 40,000 mostly Syrians and

The Mediterranean migrant crisis is “genocide” according to the mayor of an Italian city on the frontline of the invasion. “We’re living a genocide, and in a few years we Europeans risk being found responsible,” Palermo’s mayor Leoluca Orlando said

Hungary’s threat that it would unilaterally suspend European Union asylum rules, made only yesterday, has been reversed reports euronews. It had objected to the ‘Dublin Regulation‘ which states that a country must take back asylum seekers who first set foot in that

Jihadist fanatics returning from foreign battlefields might use the chaos at Calais as a means of sneaking back to the UK undetected. Terror suspects and extremists have already used illegal immigrants as cover to enter Europe and hiding in lorries could

Forget tighter border controls and strict enforcement of existing immigration rules. The UK should instead use foreign aid to end conflicts in Africa as a precursor to stemming the invasion of illegal immigrants now sailing dangerous waters for a new life in

The flood of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East for a new life in Europe comes at a cost – and taxpayers have to foot the bill. In France that means the government has to build a total

Go home. These are two simple words UK Prime Minister David Cameron would like African immigrants flooding across the Mediterranean to hear more often. Even once would be enough. In a speech to the Globsec security conference in Bratislava, Slovakia,

The EU may be a federation without borders but Hungary begs to differ. Fed up with an invasion of asylum seekers entering the country from neighbouring Serbia, Hungary has acted to stem the flow by building a fence to secure its frontier

An anticipated strong showing by the Euro-sceptic Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF) may unseat the present ruling coalition led by the left-wing Social Democrat party at national elections on Thursday, as the public focus turns to immigration. Recent polling suggests

Half a million migrants are thought to be amassing on the shores of Libya waiting to make the crossing to European ground. The Royal Naval ship NHS Bulwark rescued 1,300 migrants from overcrowded boats heading across the Mediterranean this weekend,

A number of refugees sent to Norway under the UN’s quota system have links to terrorist organisations including Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front, it has emerged. The director of Norway’s Police Security Services (PTS) has said that he can

Elderly residents of the Millmark center in Sörmark, Sweden, were served with eviction notices on Friday after the new owner of their group retirement home declared it was to be transformed into a government asylum shelter. Although many of those who

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has again refused resettlement to any of the thousands of asylum seekers caught up in south-east Asia’s growing refugee crisis. He summed up his argument in three words. “Nope, nope, nope,” Abbott replied today when

Plans for the Royal Navy to take part in rescue operations in the Mediterranean have been put on hold after confusion over asylum rights and international law. HMS Bulwark was due to join other EU vessels taking part in search