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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
07.07.2026, neues Deutschland
Learning German and learning about Germany—that is what integration courses for foreigners are meant to achieve. The federal government wants to cut funding for these courses as well. read more
06.07.2026, taz
El Obeid is currently the frontline city in Sudan’s war. Bloody attacks by the RSF militia are on the rise. The UN has warned of mass atrocities affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Analysts, aid organisations and the United Nations fear that a scenario similar to that which unfolded in Darfur’s largest city, El Fasher, in October 2025 could occur in El Obeid. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Sudan
06.07.2026, Info Migrants
The NGO Alarm Phone has sounded the alarm about a group of migrants believed to have left the Algerian coast on board a boat on June 29 and who have not been seen or heard from since. The boat is thought to have been carrying at least 12 people. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Algeria, Spanien
06.07.2026, MiGAZIN
The National Commission for the Prevention of Torture believes that human rights standards are not adequately monitored during deportations. It is particularly critical of the lack of information regarding deportations to Afghanistan and the treatment of families and children. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europa, Europäische Union, Mittlerer Osten
An annex of the Bobigny courthouse near Paris’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport reviews the cases of foreign nationals who were refused entry onto French territory. Minors who arrived in France alone are often among those facing hearings. They have been held in Charles de Gaulle airport’s "waiting zone" since arriving in France. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich
04.07.2026, tagesspiegel
Berlin remains the only one of 14 German states that agreed to introduce the Bezahlkarte but has still not done so, despite the original implementation date of early 2026 having passed. The continuing resistance within the Berlin Senate illustrates that the rollout of the card system remains politically contested even among states that formally approved it. read more
03.07.2026, tagesspiegel
A US appeals court ruled that migrants cannot be held for more than 90 days without a bail hearing, strengthening fundamental rights for those facing deportation. The ruling is directly relevant to the EU debate over extended pre-removal detention of up to 24 months under the new Return Regulation. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Amerika, Deutschland
03.07.2026, Info Migrants
The regional government of Spain's Canary Islands has expressed concern about the effects of the full implementation of the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Questions remain on how expedited deportations under the laws will affect adults and unaccompanied minors differently amid a perceived overall lack of guidance from Madrid on the proper enforcement of the changes. This comes after the first group of migrants was taken into detention under the new EU-law. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Spanien
A growing number of Syrian nationals are losing their protection status in Germany. According to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the main reason for this is an intensified review of asylum cases involving Syrians with criminal records. This change in policy direction marks a notable departure from Germany's previous policy of not sending anyone back to Syria during the war, though many experts agree that the country is not yet ready to be fully considered a safe country of origin. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland
Greek lawyers who are paid by the government to provide free advisory services to asylum seekers will be given a cash bonus if they manage to talk certain migrants out of submitting an asylum application, and opt to return to their home countries instead. A similar scheme is also being introduced in Italy, raising questions about the impartiality of people in the legal profession. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europa, Griechenland / Türkei
02.07.2026, politis
Politis reports from the court in Bobigny where judges on 1 July protested against unlawful detentions arising from the GEAS. Due to administrative unpreparedness, people were detained who should never have been subjected to the new procedures. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français Region(s): Frankreich
02.07.2026, al Jazeera
South African security forces arrested more than 900 people during the nationwide anti-migrant protests, including both demonstrators and foreign nationals. Amnesty International South Africa condemned the targeting of migrants as a scapegoating strategy for deeper socioeconomic failures, high unemployment and a backlogged asylum system. Several African countries have dispatched aircraft and buses to repatriate their nationals. The events mirror a global pattern of political instrumentalisation of anti-migration sentiment that borderline-europe increasingly documents within Europe as well. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Afrika
02.07.2026, Human Rights Watch
Libyan authorities in the east and west, who govern separately, have used incendiary rhetoric and pursued a campaign of mass detention and expulsions of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, sparking anti-migrant protest. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Libya
01.07.2026, La Cimade
La Cimade documents that France issues more than 120,000 expulsion orders per year but actually deports only around 15,000 people from metropolitan France. The new GEAS reform and Return Regulation aim to close this gap without addressing the structural obstacles that cause the low enforcement rate in the first place. read more
01.07.2026, taz.de
From July 2026 people in pre-removal detention in Germany no longer have a right to mandatory legal counsel. Human rights organisations warn that people in detention, who typically lack language skills and legal knowledge, are now left without protection at the most critical stage of the deportation procedure. read more
01.07.2026, GISTI
From 1 July 2026 the EU Qualification Regulation entered into force, defining new EU-wide standards for protection status. GISTI documents that all ten GEAS legislative acts are now fully applicable, while civil society organisations continue to flag serious implementation gaps across member states. read more
01.07.2026, Politis
On 1 July 2026 Politis reported from the court in Bobigny adjacent to Roissy airport, where judges at the liberty and detention tribunal protested in an unusually tense atmosphere against unlawful detentions arising from the implementation of the new EU Asylum Pact. An ad hoc administrator stated that the new text was so unclear that nobody really understood it, leading to people being detained who should never have been subjected to the new procedures in the first place. Politis documents exactly what NGOs and legal scholars had warned about from the start, namely that a rushed implementation without adequate preparation would inevitably produce systematic violations of fundamental rights. France, in the paper's assessment, has found itself in a state of legal irregularity since 12 June. read more
01.07.2026, tagesspiegel
The United States has begun deporting migrants to the small Pacific island state of Palau under a multimillion dollar migration agreement signed in December 2025. Palau agreed to accept a total of 75 migrants who US courts determined cannot be deported directly to their home countries due to risk of torture or persecution. The model is directly relevant to the current EU debate on return hubs in third countries: like the US, the EU is now planning to send rejected protection seekers to states with which they have no personal connection. Human rights organisations warn that such deals shift protection responsibility onto states with significantly weaker human rights standards. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Amerika
01.07.2026, al Jazeera
Sweden is implementing the EU Asylum Pact with maximum severity, introducing from 12 July a law restricting all incoming asylum seekers to temporary residence permits only and eliminating the pathway to permanent settlement that once defined the country's integration approach. From 13 July the so called informer law requires six state agencies including the tax authority and social services to report suspected undocumented people to police, shattering confidentiality norms that previously protected vulnerable people. In 2015, around 10,000 people per week were arriving in Sweden, whereas today roughly 9,000 people apply for asylum in an entire year. Asylum rights lawyer Sofia Ronnow Pessah describes the combined measures as a fundamental redefinition of what it means to live in Sweden without a Swedish passport. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europa, Europäische Union
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