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22.07.2026, Tagesspiegel
Germany plans to admit up to four additional Taliban diplomats to speed up passport issuance for deportations and enable up to three charter flights per month to Afghanistan. Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt confirmed to the Tagesspiegel that technical-level talks are ongoing with Taliban representatives. PRO ASYL described the deportations as a violation of the international non-refoulement principle, given the risk of torture or inhuman treatment upon return to Afghanistan. Greens MP Marcel Emmerich called it a scandal that the federal government is making itself an accomplice of a regime internationally recognised as a terrorist actor. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
21.07.2026, exxpress.at
A Frontex video shows so-called smugglers handing roughly 90 migrants to Sea-Watch 5 off the Libyan coast. Prosecutors in Brindisi are investigating the captain for facilitating illegal entry. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Österreich / Schweiz
20.07.2026, migazin.de
Three years after the EU-Tunisia deal, 46 human rights organisations are calling for a halt to funding of Tunisian border enforcement, citing violent interceptions, arbitrary detention, and collective expulsions into desert areas. read more
20.07.2026, junge Welt
Sudan: Investigations have fuelled suspicions that Washington has provided logistical support to the rebel RSF militias. Companies owned by former US soldier Steven Shaulis are alleged to have operated cargo flights for years to key supply points of the militia in Sudan, which has been engaged in a bloody war with government forces since 2023. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Sudan
19.07.2026, taz
Angel has been in detention pending deportation in Hof, a small town in northern Bavaria, since the end of May. The 23-year-old asylum seeker from Uganda is due to be sent back to her home country on a deportation flight on Monday. As a lesbian, she faces the threat of violence, imprisonment and, in the worst-case scenario, the death penalty there. read more
18.07.2026, perspektive-online.net
Up to 100,000 refugee children in Germany are affected by the Bezahlkarte, which restricts access to food banks and clubs. A study finds AsylbLG benefits fall up to 30 percent short of the level needed for social participation. read more
17.07.2026, Info Migrants
According to data from the European Commission, Italy blocked 12 attempts in the first three weeks of the new EU Migration and Asylum Pact to return asylum seekers to Italy, even though they had been registered in Italy and Italy should have been responsible for processing their applications. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union, Italien / Malta
16.07.2026, Human Rights Watch
The European Union and its Member States should publicly condemn human rights violations in Tunisia and cease funding abusive migration control measures, according to 46 human rights and aid organisations in a joint statement published today. The statement comes three years after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the EU and Tunisia in July 2023. Its primary aim is to secure Tunisia’s cooperation in preventing irregular departures of migrants and asylum-seekers to Europe. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union, Tunisia
16.07.2026, taz
EU Commissioner Brunner would like to see the large-scale police checks at the German borders scaled back. He does, however, praise another measure being used at the borders. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union
15.07.2026, t-online.de
Nearly two years after their reintroduction, Interior Minister Dobrindt is maintaining Germany's internal border controls despite an EU Commission recommendation for phased withdrawal. No end date was given. read more
15.07.2026, news.at
EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner has again called on Germany and Austria to end internal border controls, citing nearly 350 reported border-procedure sites EU-wide and a 40 percent drop in irregular crossings. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union, Österreich / Schweiz
15.07.2026, tagesschau
The EU intends to restrict the protection status granted to Ukrainian men of military age. In future, they will have to prove that they have completed their military service or are exempt from it. The EU is thus responding to a request from Ukraine. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union, Osteuropa
15.07.2026, Info Migrants
At least 50 migrants are feared to be lost at sea after the wooden boat on which they were traveling capsized off the eastern coast of Libya. That's according to Libyan security sources. Ten migrants are reported to have survived the ordeal. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Libya
15.07.2026, RND
In the future, up to 100 people a day are to be flown out from there. Among others, Green Party Mayor Dominik Krause opposes this. A leading police union official, however, says the number of deportations must increase. read more
15.07.2026, euobserver
Almost 50 people have been returned to Afghanistan so far this year with support from Frontex, the EU’s border agency. Marketed as “voluntary returns,” the cases are being handled in Afghanistan by Irara, a little-known Belgium-based NGO headed by people from the UK’s private security industry. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union
14.07.2026, taz
The EU has decided to set up deportation centres in third countries. But where are they to be built? A taz investigation reveals that countries such as Uzbekistan, Uganda and Senegal are unlikely to be chosen. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union
14.07.2026, Die Zeit
Preparations for the planned deportation terminal at Munich Airport can go ahead. The supervisory board of Flughafen München GmbH has approved the construction of the terminal. The federal government hopes that having its own terminal will enable it to carry out more deportations in future. Refugee and other aid organisations strongly oppose the plan. read more
14.07.2026, Flüchtlingsrat Berlin, BBZ, BNS, Hasenheide Willkommensbündnis, BuMF
Despite only 51 refugee children waiting for a school place across all of Berlin and empty waiting lists at existing sites, the Berlin Senate is maintaining plans for a third segregated "welcome school" in a Hasenheide accommodation facility. In Tempelhof, 45 of 52 students no longer even live in the accommodation the school is attached to, and one location in Tegel already had to close due to lack of demand. read more
13.07.2026, SWR
A government employee is alleged to have coerced a female asylum seeker into sexual acts by promising her protection from deportation. It appears that other women have also been affected. An investigation has been launched, and the man has been suspended. read more
13.07.2026, Finanzen.net
The Council of Member States announced, following the foreign ministers’ decision to impose sanctions, that the precious metal had become a key source of revenue used to finance the conflict. By restricting trade in Sudanese gold and limiting access to chemicals needed for mining and extraction, the aim is to reduce the resources available to those responsible for the violence. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union, Sudan
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