Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (pictured) made the following statement on the drowning of at least 24 people, after the sinking of a boat...
On the eve of the launch of Triton joint operation in the Mediterranean, the Chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee,...
What is Triton? Triton is a Frontex co-ordinated joint operation, requested by the Italian authorities that will start its activity as from 1 November 2014 in...
Concerns about how to reconcile the fundamental rights and non-discrimination of migrants with the need to gather information to dismantle criminal networks profiting from trafficking were...
European Parliament President Martin Schulz was in Lampedusa on 6 October to mark the first anniversary of the tragedy on 3 October 2013 when 366 migrants...
On 29 September, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost During Migration, the world’s most comprehensive tally to date of migrant...
Asylum applications in the EU were up by some 100,000 in 2013 compared to the year before, while at least 600 people are believed to have...