Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is questioning the effectiveness of the European Union’s current asylum system amid the country’s ongoing migration policy debate. CDU lawmaker Thorsten Frei criticised the EU-wide agreement known as the Dublin Regulation, which stipulates that in general the country the refugee first enters is responsible for processing their application for…
An Italian navy ship docked in Albania carrying the first group of migrants whose asylum requests are to be processed at new reception centres outside the EU. Media reports said this on Wednesday morning. The 16 men from Egypt and Bangladesh were Europe-bound when they were intercepted by Italian authorities on the open sea as…
The Philippines said on Tuesday it has agreed to a United States (U.S.) Government request to temporarily host “a limited number of Afghan nationals’’ fleeing Taliban rule. They wait for their special immigrant visa to be processed for resettlement to the U.S.. Under the agreement, the U.S. would shoulder all expenses of the Afghan nationals,…
The number of migrants lodging asylum applications in the EU has jumped 28 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, official figures released Tuesday showed. Between January and the end of June this year, there were 519,000 such requests made in the 27-nation bloc and associated countries…
