The European Union has the capacity to absorb a million refugees a year, and could force through new asylum rules by majority voting if consensus cannot be reached, Sweden’s migration minister said in an interview on Friday.
A new fence, electronic surveillance equipment and a paved road for police “border hunters” are all part of Hungary’s continuing efforts to stop the flow of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa at its southern borders.
Passengers and holiday-makers have been left terrified after an African migrant relentlessly shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “today we will die” as he was being deported from on a commercial flight.
Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, has slammed open borders, linking migration to the terror threat, and insisted the European Union (EU) must “never again… allow our borders to be overrun with irregular migrants as in 2015”.
A day after the UK announced a ‘great wall of Calais’ on its southern border to keep migrants out, the left-wing establishment has rallied to condemn the plan, with many comparing it to the policies of U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Germany will spend more than €20 billion on ‘refuges’ in 2016, one of the world’s top trade research centres has said in a report.
Human smuggling gangs are increasingly hiring Ukrainian sailors to captain yachts and other boats for migrants willing to pay up to $8,000 for safe passage to Europe, Italian police said on Wednesday, after the arrest of two suspected traffickers.
Paris will house close to 1,000 migrants in two camps to tackle the growing number of men, women and children fleeing war and poverty who are sleeping rough on the French capital’s streets, the city’s mayor said on Tuesday.
A leading team of Oxford University sociologists has published a paper arguing that Muslim women veil “because they are engaging with a modern, secular world”, arguing that bans “deprive them of a means… for integration”.
Hungary’s Prime Minister has warned of a “deterioration of public safety, terrorism and the extent of illegal migration”, predicting a new wave of migration from the Middle East.
(REUTERS) – Fifteen bodies were recovered and more than 2,700 boat migrants rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday, the Italian coastguard said, in another day of mass departures from north Africa.
As many as 40 per cent of the migrants who told Swiss authorities they intended to claim asylum in the country has disappeared from reception centres, media reports suggest.
A left-wing Swiss politician has been arrested after attempting to smuggle four African migrants from Italy into Switzerland.
Tony Blair has said voters “have the right” to change their minds and the UK could remain inside the European Union (EU) if public opinion shifts, demanding Europhiles continue to push ‘project fear’.
The President of the European Council has slammed “detached” European “elites” and insisted the “chaos” of last year’s migrant crisis cannot be repeated as he announced a meeting on keeping the bloc together after Brexit.
A year after suspending EU rules and inviting “no upper limit” of migrants to Germany, Angela Merkel has admitted she made a mistake.
Ingrid Kristina Carlqvist, a Swedish writer and commentator, has told Breitbart radio that Islamists and migrants “have already succeeded in introducing Sharia law to Sweden”.
Support for Angela Merkel’s conservatives has slipped as more voters turn to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), a poll showed on Wednesday, a year after the chancellor prompted criticism by saying Germany would cope with the migrant crisis.
Denmark, Austria, and Sweden are seeking tough new statutory powers to reject and turn back so-called asylum-seekers at their borders, as mass, uncontrolled migration into Europe continues.
More than 300,000 of the million plus ‘refugees’ who entered Germany illegally last year are working illegally in the country.
Some 3000 migrants were saved in the Strait of Sicily in 30 separate rescue missions on Tuesday, the Italian coastguard said, bringing the total to almost 10,000 in two days and marking a sharp acceleration in refugee arrivals in Italy.
UK police are investigating a number of messages on social media criticising plans to turn a huge former care home into accommodation for ‘asylum seekers’, warning user they could face ‘jail’ if they ‘offend’ people.
Some 6,500 migrants were saved off the Libyan coast in 40 separate rescue missions on Monday, the Italian coast guard said on Twitter, in one of the largest influxes of refugees in a single day so far this year.
Hungary plans to build a second fence on its southern border with Serbia that would enable it to keep out any major new wave of migrants, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
Well over a quarter of births in England and Wales over the past year were to women born outside the UK – the highest level on record – whilst births to UK born women fell by 0.4 per cent.
Net long-term migration into the UK over the past year was more than 327,000, remaining at a near record level. Almost half came from within the European Union (EU) and there was a surge of Bulgarian and Romains before the Brexit vote.
(REUTERS) – A European Union scheme to relocate refugees from frontline countries Greece and Italy to other member states must be bigger and move faster, the U.N. refugee chief said in Athens on Wednesday. The programme, devised last year, was
Norway is putting up a steel fence at a remote Arctic border post with Russia after an influx of migrants last year, sparking an outcry from refugees’ rights groups and fears that cross- border ties with the former Cold War adversary will be harmed.
French authorities have revealed a “spectacular” rise in the number of migrants living in Calais as the wait to illegally enter the UK, increasing by 53 per cent in just two months.
Serbia detained over 3,000 migrants illegally entering into the country in one month, a military spokesman said, suggesting many were still trying to make their way along a Balkan corridor to the European Union despite border closures.
The bodies of five migrants were recovered and 534 others were saved on Thursday following an array of rescue operations in the Mediterranean sea, Italy’s coastguard said.
Greece plans to reduce overcrowding at migrant camps on its islands, a government official said on Wednesday, to ease growing tensions and improve conditions that campaigners have called “disgraceful”.
About 340 other Syrian migrants have been moved to an abandoned holiday resort in the western Peloponnese. For five months, they have been living at LM Village, a beachside resort 280 km (174 miles) west of Athens which fell into disuse six years ago amid disagreements between its administrators.
One of the UK’s largest bus operators has defended its practice of hiring only EU migrants for some rolls, whilst turning down fully qualified British workers.
(REUTERS) – Austrian police said on Friday they are turning away four times as many illegal immigrants at the Brenner border crossing as in May due to tougher controls and more migrants heading for northern Europe from Italy.
Approval ratings for German Chancellor Angela Merkel fell sharply last month, a poll showed on Friday, in the second sign of a voter backlash to her refugee policy since Islamist militant attacks in Germany last month.
More than 25,000 migrants arrived in Italy in July, 12 percent more than in the same period last year, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday.
Germans are ‘fleeing’ to Hungary to escape Angela Merkel’s open door mass migration policy, saying that they fear “civil war”. Hailing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the German ‘immigrants’ say that he has protected his country against “Muslims, intruders and economic migrants”.
Bavaria’s spy agency has “substantial” evidence that Islamic State terror squads are hiding in Germany after entering the country as ‘refugees’.
According to data from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), arrivals are up 17 percent on last year, stoked mainly by a spike at the start of the year through Greece.
