On 19 February 2015 the European Commission stepped up its assistance to Italy to deal with the current high migratory pressures in Lampedusa. In close cooperation...
Dimitris Avramopoulos - Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship I have come to talk to you today about a reality that is becoming ever starker: Europe...
We call them asylum seekers, refugees, migrants. They come from various countries and have lived through different experiences but all look for the same: a peaceful...
Hundreds of men, women and children fleeing Syria were confined by smugglers in cargo ships sailing from Turkey to Italy.©BELGAIMAGE/AFP/Y.Kourtoglou MEPs discussed the recent cases of...
The spectre of large, disposable crafts bearing hundreds of migrants across dangerous waters in the new year was borne out in terrifying fashion this past week...
With regard to the recent events of the smuggling of migrants in the Ezadeen and Blue Sky M cargo ships to Italy, Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship...
Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, on the occasion of International Migrants Day'(18 December) made the following statement: "On International Migrants Day, we are...