MIGRATION

Swiss turn down population cap referendum

EFTA Theodoros Benakis -
Swiss voters rejected a controversial proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million, with urban voters and older generations among the main groups...

EU announces new migration policy focused on increased deportations and overseas detention centres

EUROPEAN COMMISSION European Interest -
The European Union has launched a significant overhaul of its migration policy aimed at increasing deportations and establishing controversial detention centres abroad. Rights groups...

Forty-six European countries sign off on new interpretation of European Convention in migration cases

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS European Interest -
On 15 May, representatives from 46 nations across Europe and beyond convened to establish a new interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights...

Spain moves forward with amnesty programme for hundreds of thousands of immigrants

MIGRATION European Interest -
On Tuesday, the Spanish government finalised a migrant amnesty measure first announced earlier this year. This initiative provides an opportunity for hundreds of thousands...

Authorities withholding information as hundreds of migrants vanish in the Mediterranean

ARAB MAGHREB Theodoros Benakis -
Migrants attempting to reach Europe are disappearing in droves, casualties of so-called "invisible shipwrecks", yet the governments responsible for carrying out search and rescue...
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