BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Not so long ago, people in Bosnia were sarcastically joking that their war-scarred country is in such a bad shape that not even the migrants fleeing violence and poverty in the Mideast and Africa were willing to pass through it.
An Afghan migrant in France was given a short four-year sentence — with one year suspended — after being found guilty of stabbing four people in the town of Périgueux last week.
The ruling pro-open borders Swedish Social Democrats may be facing their worst election result in the history of the party, in polling just weeks before the country votes in the next national election.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in northern Greece have detained nine teenagers in a hostel for unaccompanied migrants, following a riot over allegedly poor food and internet services at the facility.
MILAN (AP) — The European Union is trying to find countries willing to take 177 people rescued at sea after Italy sought its help to deal with yet another migrant standoff with Malta.
Germans have grown significantly more tolerant of homosexuals in recent years while attitudes towards Muslims have hardened somewhat, according to a new study which showed the majority of respondents are uncomfortable with the hijab and the spread of mosques. A
The German region of Baden-Wüttemburg has seen a dramatic increase in the number of asylum seekers smuggling themselves into the country on freight trains and has vowed stricter border controls as a result. The federal police, who are responsible for
Swedish authorities claim that organised criminal gangs are actively recruiting newly arrived asylum seekers and using them to commit money laundering and other types of fraud.
A judge is accusing German authorities of testing the limits of the law in the deportation to Tunisia of a suspected former aide to Osama bin Laden, whom courts have ordered returned to Germany.
(AP) — Spanish rescue services say they have pulled 524 migrants to safety from 12 boats attempting to reach Spain from northern Africa, currently the most used sea route into Europe.
A police spokeswoman in Berlin told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that a “crazy” man sent letters last month that contained a non-dangerous white powder to the Israeli, US and Czech embassies and to other institutions in the German capital.
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has reported that only a fraction of the failed asylum seekers from Africa have been deported saying they have a very high chance of being allowed to remain in the country.
Spain must open its borders to more than five million migrants over the coming decades in order to fund the pension system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared.
Tunisian authorities have arrested nine Islamist extremists who attempted to board a rubber boat to reach Italy across the Mediterranean on Monday.
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta on Tuesday agreed to let a private rescue ship dock on the island, with the 141 migrants it is carrying to be distributed among five fellow European Union nations in what was described as a “responsibility-sharing exercise.”
Dutch professor Maurice Crul has said that with the ever increasing number of migrants and migrant background people living in the Netherlands, that the native Dutch should just get used to being a minority.
SOS Méditerranée has reacted with anger to news the government of Gibraltar is to strip the Aquarius vessel it uses to ferry migrants to Europe of its registration.
Dozen people have rallied in a small Bosnian town to protest an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, claiming authorities are trying to destroy the area.
Britain could be responsible for taking in 140 illegal migrants picked up by aid groups in the Mediterranean, Italy’s populist leaders have suggested.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The leaders of Germany and Spain on Saturday promoted a shared approach to immigration into the European Union amid growing populist opposition in other EU nations to taking in more asylum-seekers.
Pro-mass migration civil society groups have confirmed that the Aquarius ship has resumed picking up migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, but has not yet attempted to disembark the illegals on European soil.
Uncontrolled immigration “leads to chaos, racism and social conflict,” said Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in an interview Friday, whereas the “only antidote to racism” is regulated migration.
ALGECIRAS, Spain (AP) — A rescue boat carrying 87 African migrants who were saved in the Mediterranean Sea docked Thursday at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras, but without the welcome offered to previous groups as the political mood in Spain began showing signs of tension about a spike in migrant arrivals.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it has reached an agreement with Spain for that country to take back previously registered migrants who show up at the German border, a first step toward implementing a deal to defuse a domestic political dispute over migration.
Morocco could have deliberately increased the flow of migrants setting off for Spain to pressure the European Union (EU) to make more generous concessions in forthcoming talks.
The European Commission is “alarmed” by a heating up of debates over immigration in Spain, provoked by rising populist leaders, El País reported Monday.
Italian military police arrested seven Gambian migrants in a sting operation in southern Italy early Tuesday morning, charging them with the sale of narcotics including to minors.
Berlin has indicated that it may introduce controls along the borders with France and Switzerland after the Socialist-led Spanish government accepted thousands of migrants, with Germany fearing a fresh migrant wave.
The German city of Essen has ordered 128 custom bulletproof vests for employees of the recently created Central Immigration Office (ZAB) to keep employees safe while carrying out deportations.
Tunisian migrant Sief Allah H., 29, planned a deadline ricin terror attack against “unbelievers”, according to German prosecutors.
The far-left pro-open borders association Baobab Experience has targetted populist anti-mass migration Interior Minister Matteo Salvini claiming he has been spreading “hate speech” with his rhetoric.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say they have arrested eight migrants on suspicion of the murder of a Pakistani man trying to leave the country illegally.
Police have arrested a Moroccan migrant after a British pensioner was allegedly sexually assaulted and robbed at her holiday apartment in Tenerife.
More and more migrants have been flowing across the border into Bosnia in recent months, hoping to cross into Croatia and the European Union, but the numbers may be fueling prior tensions between ethnic and religious groups in the country.
The German state of Bavaria has opened the country’s first so-called “Anchor Centre”, the brainchild of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, in an attempt to speed up the country’s asylum and deportation process.
