Migrants in europe

Spain hopes to transfer migrant minors to mainland within weeks

Youth Minister Rego said the profile of child migrants had changed in the past five years since the last major border rush on Ceuta in 2021, when 8,000 people crossed the border. 

Migrants, some of them minors, queue to receive food staples from local NGO Media Luna Blanca in an industrial area where they are sleeping amid recent mass crossings by migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into the Spanish territory, Migrants, some of them minorsin Ceuta, Spain, August 6, 2026.
Migrants swim through Spain's Ceuta border from the Moroccan side and climb onto rocks to reach the border fence, in Ceuta, Spain, July 30, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

Some 100 dead following Moroccan migrant border rush into Spain, Ceuta leader says

Migrants try to board smugglers' boats in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on September 27, 2025; illustrative.

Migrants share tutorials for human smuggling on social media - report

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media following a call with military service members, on Thanksgiving, in Palm Beach, Florida, US, November 27, 2025.

Trump policy doc. says Europe risks 'civilizational erasure', aims to avoid Mideast 'forever wars'


Britain could cut visas from countries that don't accept migrant returns

After talks with allies, including the United States, on how to assert more control over borders, Britain's new interior minister, Shabana Mahmood, agreed to the principles at a meeting in London.

 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Britain, July 6, 2024.

'This is Auschwitz': Hundreds defy Amsterdam protest ban in solidarity with antisemitic attackers

On Sunday afternoon, the city of Amsterdam posted on X that protesters who defied the ban would be arrested.

 Anti-Israel protesters arrived in troves "in solidarity" with Thursday's pogrom in Amsterdam.

Boat carrying Egyptian migrant capsizes off Libyan coast, 12 dead

The migrants, who were from Egypt’s al-Sharkia and al-Gharbia regions, were attempting to reach Italy, according to Libyan sources who interviewed the sole survivor.

 Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a boat during a rescue operation in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September, 2023.

EU migration ministers address militant Islamist attacks, risks from Israel-Hamas war

"The implications of the situation in the Middle East for our internal security... are very topical right now," said an EU diplomat involved in preparing the ministerial talks.

 The daughter of Palestinian woman Raghda Abu Marasa, who fled to the southern part of the enclave after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, rides in a car with her family members as they return to their home in Gaza City, citing a lack of refuge elsewhere

Spain rescues 262 migrants in Canary Islands as EU mulls migration

Migrant arrivals by sea to Spain have increased by a fifth so far this year compared to the same period in 2022.

 A group of 61 migrants on a wooden boat are rescued by crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September 28, 2023.

New UN migration chief worried boat deaths becoming 'normalized'

Earlier this month, a dinghy filled with belongings of refugees holding Somalian and Turkish documents and other belongings washed ashore in Netanya, with no expected survivors.

Massimo Sestini’s entry, which took second place in the General News slot, is a colorful overhead shot of refugees packed into a boat off the Libyan coast, prior to being rescued by an Italian naval frigate.

Poland: Jewish director's film on migrant crisis is Nazi propaganda

The film’s social media pages have since been swarmed with antisemitic trolls, according to its sales agent.

A MAN looks at a Nazi propaganda poster at Yad Vashem.

Italy hosts major migration conference with Middle East states - analysis

The International Conference on Development and Migration is an initiative of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and it was held at the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome on Sunday.

 Delegates pose for a family photo during an international conference on migration in Rome, Italy July 23, 2023.

Italy adopts state of emergency over migrants

Around 31,300 migrants have arrived in Italy so far in 2023, interior ministry data shows, up from around 7,900 in the same period last year.

 Mourners react near a coffin of a victim who died in a migrant shipwreck, in Crotone, Italy March 1, 2023.

Migrant shipwreck in Italy kills at least 61, including 12 children

The vessel was carrying people from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and several other countries when it crashed near the Italian coast.

 A boat that was carrying immigrants is seen in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, March 30, 2018. Picture taken March 30, 2018