Migration and Europe
2 articlesMigration and Europe serves as the umbrella for reporting on Mediterranean migration, asylum policy, labor migration and migrant smuggling. Coverage follows Mediterranean and Atlantic routes, asylum and border rules, labor mobility, EU agreements and smuggling networks, connecting policy, enforcement, legal constraints and economic incentives to changing patterns of movement and bilateral bargaining. The scope is migration and mobility rather than Europe policy in general, with diplomacy, security or labor-market material included when it changes routes, border governance, asylum, returns or cross-border movement.
Ceuta leader demands EU action as migrant influx overwhelms city
Ceuta's president Juan Jesús Vivas has broken with Madrid and urged the EU to confront Morocco and fund urgent border security, warning that the Spanish exclave faces collapse after 80,000 migrants entered in a single day and over 150 died at sea.
Mauritanian Coast Guard Rescues 315 Migrants Near Nouadhibou
Mauritanian coast guard units rescued 315 people, including women and children, from a makeshift boat off Nouadhibou. The group, mainly from Senegal and Gambia, was attempting irregular migration under difficult humanitarian conditions.