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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK and EU agree to co-operate more closely on migration

    Britain and border agency Frontex to share intelligence and swap liaison staff in latest evidence of thawing relations

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Albanian MPs approve deal to build migrant centres for Italy

    Rights groups criticise Tirana’s agreement, which echoes UK’s stalled immigration pact with Rwanda 

    Albanian MPs vote on migrant deal between Italy and Albania in Tirana on February 22 2024
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Italian town where tensions are flaring over migrant workers

    As its population declines, Italy is confronting the increased cultural diversity that comes with a dependence on foreign labour

    Rejaul Haq, Abdul Majid Kinani and Bou Konate
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Europe Express
    Undercut migrant smugglers with legal routes to Europe, says IOM Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why the EU’s new clean tech rules are contested by the renewables industry

    Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, left welcomes Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Italy’s €5.5bn development pledge won’t be enough for Africa Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: NGOs demand Brussels block Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Albanian top court approves migrant deal with Italy

    Judge rules plan for Rome to process asylum seekers in neighbouring country is constitutional

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, and her Albanian counterpart Edi Rama
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    In praise of mass immigration

    High levels of it are a sign of a healthy and dynamic society

    James Ferguson illustration of multicoloured footprints depicting mass immigration
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    It’s time to be honest about the challenge of immigration

    There is a mismatch between the numbers of people seeking a home in the UK and the scale of arrivals that voters will accept

    Illustration of person with a red face shouting through a megaphone, with a speech bubble containing a small boat full of people in it, crossed with a big red X
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Germany eases rules for foreigners seeking citizenship

    New law cuts time that applicants must live in the country and lifts ban on dual nationality for those from outside EU

    A person holding a German passport
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    OutlookZehra Munir
    Expulsion from Pakistan makes Afghan refugees a political football once more

    Islamabad’s crackdown on foreign nationals has disproportionately affected the well-established population

    Afghan refugees in a camp near the Torkham border crossing last November
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Europe Express
    Von der Leyen’s backers push for a rubber stamp on her second term Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why Ukrainians fleeing the war could help Europe plug labour shortages

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
    Ruchir Sharma
    Immigration crackdowns are good politics but bad economics

    Leaders should be wary of curbing the force that helped save the world economy in 2023

    Texas National Guards watch migrants cross into the US. The immigration surge helped explain last year’s Goldilocks economy
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    German politics
    German chancellor weighs in on far-right ‘remigration’ ideas

    Olaf Scholz responds to reports of AfD politicians secretly meeting Austrian white supremacist

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    The war on migration is meant to be lost

    Politicians promise to cut immigration, while knowing their societies couldn’t function without it

  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the EU cares about Poland’s constitutional confrontation Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: What Egypt wants from the EU in exchange for controlling migration

    Supporters of Poland’s opposition PiS party demonstrate in Warsaw
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The immigration smokescreen is beginning to lift

    Governments are performatively hostile to asylum seekers to distract voters from economic migrants

    An immigration officer escorts migrants picked up from the English Channel
  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    Europe Express
    EU Liberals head warns of a return to the 1930s in upcoming elections Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why the European debate on migration is shifting from border control to work permits

    Stéphane Séjourné
  • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
    Germany
    Berlin rolls out record police presence for New Year’s Eve

    German capital’s authorities seek to avoid repeat of rioting of 12 months ago in ‘city of chaos’

    31 December 2022: Berlin police officers had fireworks thrown at them
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why Brussels fears ‘survival mode’ elections in 2024 Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: The battle for control of European elite football reaches ECJ judgment

    EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    French politics
    Macron salvages immigration law in crunch parliamentary vote

    French president risks crisis in his government after toughened-up reform wins backing of far right

    Emmanuel Macron
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    The Big Read
    How migration is pushing Europe to the right

    Growing public concern over asylum applicant numbers is bolstering once-fringe parties across the bloc

    Migrants are surrounded by French National Police as they wait to board a bus for reception centers after leaving their makeshift camp during a sheltering operation by the local prefecture in Loon-Plage, northern France on November 30, 2023
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    EU strikes deal on long-delayed migration reforms

    Draft agreement ends years of fraught negotiations to share responsibilities between member states

    Refugees from Syria arrive at a centre for asylum seekers in Göttingen, Germany, in 2016
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why EU countries are not on track to meet their 2030 climate target Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Greece’s legal migration plan splits its ruling party

    Wopke Hoekstra
  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
    Italian politics
    Italy has failed to curb migration, Meloni admits at far-right festival

    Prime minister acknowledges that results are ‘not the ones expected’ at event attended by Elon Musk and Rishi Sunak

  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
    UK immigration
    Sunak vows to work with Italy to review asylum rules

    UK premier tells rightwing rally hostile states will use migration to ‘destabilise’ the west

    Rishi Sunak
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