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17.08.2026, InfoMigrants (Original: DW, Autor Oliver Pieper)
Ten years after Germany's Integration Act came into force (August 2016), the balance sheet is mixed: refugees who arrived in 2015 now have an employment rate of 65–67%, just 3 percentage points below the national average, among the best in Europe. The residency requirement draws the sharpest criticism, having distributed many people to economically weak, high-unemployment regions and thereby hindered labour market integration. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland
17.08.2026, Eunews
Preliminary data from Frontex show that between January and July, "irregular" crossings totalled 37 per cent compared with 2025. Increases were seen only along the route involving Spain, which has been left to deal with the situation on its own read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union
17.08.2026, bdnews24
The Bangladesh Embassy in Cairo has released an initial report detailing the survival of 29 Europe-bound Bangladeshi migrants rescued off Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh after drifting in the Mediterranean for 10 days. In a report sent on Sunday, the embassy said local police rescued the group on Aug 13 when their rubber boat drifted off course after launching from Tobruk, Libya, towards Greece with the aid of a human trafficking ring. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Egypt
17.08.2026, nd
The state-supported repatriation programme in Germany is intended to be voluntary. However, refugee organisations have criticised the pressure under which those affected are forced to leave the country. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
16.08.2026, kurdistan 24
According to the German government's response to a parliamentary inquiry from the Left Party, 23.2% of 8,320 reviewed Syrian protection cases had status revoked or withdrawn in the first half of 2026, up from 3.7% in 2025 and 3.1% in 2024. Chancellor Merz had suggested up to 80% of Syrians in Germany could return within three years; Left Party migration policy expert Clara Bünger called the timeline unrealistic and demanded permanent protection instead. read more
16.08.2026, Reuters
Hundreds of people on the move, who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on Sunday, urging Spanish authorities to grant them asylum instead of sending them back to Morocco. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Marocco, Spanien
16.08.2026, taz
Moroccan security forces have prevented hundreds of people from entering the Spanish exclave. Calls to do so had been made on social media. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Marocco, Spanien
So far this year, the authorities have withdrawn refugee status from around 2,000 Syrians. That may sound like a small number of cases, but it represents a significant tightening of the rules. read more
16.08.2026, taz.de
Moroccan security forces, deploying around 24,000 officers, prevented a second mass crossing into Ceuta that had been called for on social media for Saturday. Helicopters, water cannons, and tear gas were used to disperse the crowd, most of them Sudanese civil war refugees and West Africans; 294 people were arrested. read more
16.08.2026, al Jazeera
Spanish authorities arrested hundreds of migrants in a fresh crackdown near the Ceuta border, after hundreds protested on a city beach on Sunday demanding asylum rather than deportation. An estimated 5,000 to 8,000 people remain in precarious conditions in the enclave. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Spanien
15.08.2026, Al Jazeera
Five years after the Taliban seized power, thousands of former Afghan staff who worked for European governments remain in limbo. Germany was the first EU country to work with Taliban-appointed diplomats in Berlin and Bonn; 15 European ambassadors met with a Taliban delegation in Brussels on 23 June to discuss possible returns. read more
15.08.2026, nd
Interior Minister Poseck has praised the deportations. Yet individual cases show just how questionable the practice is. Now parents have been separated from their children. read more
The Libyan ‘coastguard’ is once again intercepting boats and threatening rescuers. Eleven bodies are floating in the open sea, and more people have been pushed into the water. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Libya
15.08.2026, Frankfurter Rundschau
On 12 June 2026, the EU Asylum System (GEAS) came into force, harmonising the rules governing asylum procedures and protection standards across all Member States, whilst at the same time severely restricting the right to protection. Among other things, this means that refugees may be deported to the country of first entry without a prior asylum procedure. The Ministry of the Interior, led by Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), wanted to put a young Somali woman on a deportation flight because her first country of entry within the EU was Italy. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union, Italien / Malta
14.08.2026, Deutschlandfunk
When a refugee applies for asylum in Germany, they receive assistance from the authorities. For example, they receive money for food. For a long time, the authorities gave refugees cash. In many cities, however, refugees are now given a payment card. Social welfare organisations criticise this, saying that the payment card makes everyday life more difficult for many asylum seekers. read more
13.08.2026, infoMigrants
Following the late-July mass crossing, authorities in Ceuta are investigating three cases of sexual assault; both the alleged perpetrators and those affected are themselves migrants. Two of the three people affected were minors, with one case additionally involving rape followed by coerced drug trafficking. read more
13.08.2026, Info Migrants
Over 320 people on the move have been rescued off the Greek island of Crete during several missions that took place in recent days. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Libya
13.08.2026, euobserver
The new Entry/Exit System (EES), together with the European Travel Authorisation System (ETIAS), is part of a broader push to technically integrate databases across migration and public security. Europe is quietly building the most extensive digital border surveillance infrastructure in its history – one that people can neither see nor challenge. Whereas the idea behind EES is to automate entry and exit records through biometric data collection, ETIAS aims to pre-screen who is or is not fit to enter the European Union based on criteria assessed by a score: risk to public health, risk to security, and risk of illegal immigration. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
13.08.2026, ECRE
Five years after the Islamist Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the German government is their closest partner for co-operation in the EU. Germany’s main goal: increasing deportations regardless of human rights risks. More than 200 Afghan men have been returned to Kabul from Germany in the last twelve months. While the deportations were initially limited to criminals, this criterion has been lifted. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Asien, Deutschland, Europäische Union
12.08.2026, Info Migrants
Germany is seeking to resume transfers of people on the move to Italy and Greece. As part of the launch of the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum earlier this summer, the enforcement of so-called Dublin returns is likely to be pursued more decisively by some EU members like Germany, reports indicate. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland, Italien / Malta
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