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EU immigration

  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    News in-depth
    Germany ‘reopens old wounds’ with border checks

    Berlin’s decision risks hampering borderless travel in Schengen area

    Olaf Scholz imposed the checks last month
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the EU fears a major war in Lebanon Premium content

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    Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Brussels is wary of Keir Starmer’s ‘cherry-picking’ tactics Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: don’t expect a new European Commission before December

    Sir Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    How EU funds paid for risky African aid projects Premium content

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    Migrants are carried by a MSF rescue team boat after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    ExplainerUK immigration
    Can Italian tactics help the UK stop migrant boats?

    Meloni has reduced the flow, but some methods are controversial

    Montage shows prime minister Sir Keir Starmer with his Italian counterpart Georgia Meloni against an Italian flag
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK studying Italian plans to process asylum claims in Albania, says Meloni

    Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Russia’s increased co-operation with China and Iran spooks Europe Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: EU asylum applications stable amid frenzied immigration debate

    Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hand of Ali Akbar Ahmadian
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

    British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

    Keir Starmer with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during a meeting at Blenheim Palace in July
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Italian politics
    Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for Italy’s Salvini over migrant ship

    Deputy prime minister could face prison over episode in which vessel carrying rescued migrants was forbidden from docking

    Matteo Salvini
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Eight migrants die in English Channel as tragedies mount

    French government laments this year’s ‘terrible’ toll, said to be worst since 2018

    A damaged migrants’ boat after a failed attempt to cross the Channel led to the death of eight people near the beach of Ambleteuse, northern France
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    German politics
    Germany upsets its neighbours with border clampdown

    Berlin plans to carry out checks at all land frontiers in a bid to stem illegal migration

    German Federal Police officers are seen stopping a white van on a highway along the border with Poland. The officers are in high-visibility vests and black uniforms.
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Sweden
    Sweden says rooting out gangs will take a decade

    Justice minister warns that criminals are recruiting children for extremist groups abroad

    Gunnar Strömmer speaks at a press conference in Stockholm. Behind him are Swedish flags.
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    German politics
    Germany extends temporary controls to all its land borders

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government steps up response to demand for tougher line on irregular immigration

    Migrants are escorted by federal police near Forst, eastern Germany
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The far-right’s disturbing success in eastern Germany

    Even outside government, the AfD can exert a pernicious influence

    Supporters of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party await the speech
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    German politics
    Germany deports Afghans for first time since Taliban’s return to power

    Refugee advocacy groups criticise expulsion of 28 convicted criminals to country that has no diplomatic ties with Berlin

    A man crouches to place a candle among a large collection of flowers and candles arranged on the ground as a memorial near the site of a recent attack in Solingen, Germany. Several people in the background are standing, some with bicycles and cameras.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    German immigration
    Germany to cut benefits for refugees facing deportation

    Measures, which include a ban on knives at public events, follow outrage over terror attack in western city last week

    People hold banners that read ‘Direct democracy’ and ‘No to mass immigration, yes to remigration’ in Solingen, Germany
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    German politics
    German chancellor Olaf Scholz urges talks on tougher immigration policy

    Call for dialogue with opposition and regions follows deadly knife attack by a suspected Syrian national

    Far-right protesters hold a banner as they march through the streets of Solingen, Germany on August 26 2024
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Italy steps up clampdown on boats rescuing migrants in Mediterranean Sea

    Impounding of MSF’s ship for 60 days is 23rd seizure of a vessel by Giorgia Meloni’s government

    Giorgia Meloni, Italy's Prime Minister, gestures while welcoming the European Council President at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Spain’s Sánchez is going to Africa to curb migration at its source Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Can aeroplanes be sustainable?

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the podium in front of the Spanish flag
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Germany’s stabbing attack has rekindled EU’s far-right fears Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Bulgaria calls its seventh general election in three years

    Far-right supporters attend a demo after a knife attack in German
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    News in-depthGerman immigration
    Knife attack puts immigration top of German political agenda

    Far right seizes on arrest of Syrian immigrant suspected of killing three people ahead of regional elections

    Herbert Reul, Hendrik Wuest, Olaf Scholz, Tim Kurzbach, and Mona Neubaur stand at a makeshift memorial for the victims at the site of a knife attack in Solingen, western Germany, on August 26, 2024. The memorial is adorned with flowers, candles, and messages.
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Sweden breaks with its liberal past on migration Premium content

    EU governments face awkward choices over asylum-seekers, labour market shortages and integration of newcomers

    Migrants are guided onto a boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Denmark
    Denmark tightens border controls with Sweden after surge in shootings

    Officials aim to limit attacks from ‘Swedish child soldiers’ hired by Danish gangs

    File picture of border control patrols and vehicles at the border crossing on the Oresund Bridge
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Tory rhetoric on migrants created ‘climate’ for far-right riots, say critics

    Claims of asylum seeker ‘invasion’ fuelled hatred, they warn

    An anti-immigration demonstration near parliament on July 31 in response to the fatal stabbing of three children in Stockport
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Four migrants die in attempted English Channel crossing

    Incident off French coast reflects rise in hazardous small boat crossings this year

    A French police officer walks beside a police car parked on a road off a beach
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