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On 15 October, Poland will see an unprecedented electoral event. Not only will there be a general election, there will also be multiple concurrent – and highly controversial – referendums.
Of the four referendum questions, two focus on immigration, a favourite hobby horse of the ruling Law (...)
On Saturday, June 10, the fishing boat Adriana, an old 30 metre vessel, set off from Tobruk in Libya loaded with 750 migrants. Bound for Italy, it sank in the early hours of Wednesday, June 14 fifty miles southwest of Pylos in the Peloponnese. Only 104 men survived, and 82 bodies were (...)
The first quarter of 2023 was the deadliest for migrants crossing the Mediterranean since 2017.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Wednesday 12 April that at least 441 people died while trying to reach Europe; the toll was further increased at the beginning of (...)
Maria Markina, a singer and volunteer from Hamburg, talks about her experience of helping Ukrainian refugees, her volunteer organization, and the relations between volunteers from Russia and Ukraine
Maria, first of all, tell us a little bit about yourself. Are you still active in opera? How (...)
We have a problem, and a serious one at that. The belief persists in the public sphere that Poles are full of goodwill towards Ukrainians. We have managed to give ourselves medals for this, and we accept thanks from Ukraine. The problem is that this goodwill no longer exists.
It was (...)
Pushing ‘irregular’ migrants back from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia won’t stop them coming
For over a year now, there has been a humanitarian crisis along borders between the European Union and Belarus. Poland is refusing to give refuge to asylum seekers who enter it from Belarus, and the (...)
Finland, Poland and the Baltic states are stopping Russians from leaving Russia. It would be a tragedy if Sweden did the same, says David Crouch.
An iron curtain is descending across Europe. But in contrast to the beginning of the Cold War, the curtain is being drawn down by EU countries – (...)
One of Warsaw’s major railway stations, working as an information point for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, was full of people. It was early May, and the crowds had shrunk as the number of those crossing the Polish-Ukrainian border had decreased. Yet, there was a dire need for volunteers (...)
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By and large, Ukrainians have been granted access to assistance, and extended legal statuses allowing them to (...)
Some EU countries have rigid human trafficking laws that don’t recognize other forms of labor exploitation, such as the case of these migrant truck drivers, leaving them unprotected and vulnerable
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – Randy remembers feeling paralyzed by dread. He could not shake (...)
‘The army is much meaner and more focused on disturbing our work.’
More than 3.5 million of the 6.5 million people who have fled Russia’s invasion have entered the EU at the Poland-Ukraine border, mainly to open arms and a hot meal. This situation stands in stark contrast to the reception (...)
According to the European Agency for Fundamental Rights data, Roma are the most persecuted minority in Europe. During the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, the international organization Minority Rights Group (MRG), operating in Ukraine, alarmed that human rights violations against (...)
In a long-term view of the eastern EU border, it is heightened militarization and exclusion that is the norm, with the kind of openness we are witnessing with regard to the Ukrainians being the exception. What, then, is to be done in a country like Slovakia where there is little hope that (...)
This is not the first time that the victims of the war in Ukraine have received relatively more attention than the victims of the wars in Asia, Africa and Latin America. How can such an exclusive attitude of the West be explained? Geopolitical factors provide only a partial explanation. A (...)
Change to controversial legislation will allow Ukraine refugees to move into housing emptied of ‘non-westerners’
Denmark is facing fresh claims of racism after MPs changed the country’s controversial anti-ghetto law to allow Ukrainian refugees to move into social housing emptied of (...)
The reception of Ukrainian refugees in Poland has painted an image of a country welcoming refugees. But the crisis at the border with Belarus tells a different story.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced more than 10 million people to leave their homes in search of safety. The majority (...)
Grupa Granica claim activists simply gave humanitarian aid to family stranded in border forest amid deepening refugee crisis
Four activists were detained in Poland on 23 March for aiding migrants crossing the Belarusian border. They currently face three months of pre-trial arrest.
“When (...)
‘EU leaders have tacitly admitted that EU migration policies, at a purely mechanical level, are unfit for purpose.’
The EU’s decision to grant Ukrainian refugees temporary protection in the country of their choice is not just the right thing to do for displaced Ukrainians, it is also a (...)
Volunteers are the backbone of relief efforts for Ukrainians, but they are let down by a government that – until two weeks ago – was set against refugees
I stand in the middle of a huge hall in Korczowa, close to the border with Ukraine at Poland’s A4 highway. It used to be a duty-free (...)
In Europe, the volunteers welcoming Ukrainian refugees are often the same people attacked for aiding refugees in the Mediterranean. That’s not just hypocritical, it’s inhumane — we should welcome all migrants fleeing war and terror.
Across Europe, vast networks of collection points and (...)
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