Migration covers EU migration and asylum policy, border management and Schengen, visas and legal pathways, asylum procedures and reception, returns and readmission, integration, anti-trafficking, search-and-rescue, and the external dimension with partner countries. Reporting includes legislation, court rulings, data trends and operational developments involving the Pact on Migration and Asylum, Frontex and national authorities.
Sir Keir Starmer’s latest gambit — signing a border security agreement with the People’s Republic of China to “help disrupt small boat supply lines” — is exactly the sort of…
Denmark is set to record one of its lowest annual totals for asylum residence permits after government figures showed that 839 permits were issued in the first 11 months of…
Germany’s Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria is pushing forward an ambitious plan to tighten the country’s immigration laws and begin the mass deportation of Syrian migrants following the end…
Cyprus began its six-month term as holder of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 January 2026, taking over from Denmark and chairing Council formations…
Sir Keir Starmer likes to speak the language of control. Control of borders, control of systems, control restored after years of drift. Yet on the Channel beaches of northern France,…
The Netherlands’ Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has approved far fewer first-time asylum applications in 2025 than a year earlier, citing a shift in the assessment of Syrian cases, the…
The European Union has agreed to fast-track asylum applications from nationals of seven countries it intends to designate as “safe countries of origin”: Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Kosovo, Morocco and…
Paris insists that the decision to cancel its New Year’s Eve open-air concert on the Champs-Élysées is merely a matter of crowd control. Officials speak of logistics, unpredictability and prudence.…
EU interior ministers have agreed a common negotiating position on a series of migration laws that would tighten the use of “safe country” concepts, create an EU-wide framework for deportations…
France is to allow its maritime police to intercept small boats in the Channel before they collect migrants from beaches in northern France, following sustained pressure from the UK government.…
Leaders from the European Union and the African Union are meeting in Luanda, Angola, on 24–25 November for the seventh AU–EU summit, with security, migration, economic cooperation and development at…