#Migration

EU Commission: Pact on Migration and Asylum. Von der Leyen, “new balance between responsibility and solidarity”

Von der Leyen: with Covid-19 Europe changes course. “We will pull through together”

In a lengthy speech at the European Parliament, the President of the Commission gave an overview of the situation in…

Card. Hollerich (COMECE): “All those words on European values were only lies”

The tragedy of Lesvos was at the heart of last week’s meeting between Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, COMECE president, and Pope…

Council of Europe: handbook on family reunification for refugee children. “Ensuring respect for children’s rights and interests”

Migration: Eurostat, number of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the EU down 20%. Over 13,000 in 2019

Greece: 5,500 unaccompanied minors. EU, “let us protect these children”. Possible pact to relocate them to other EU countries

Covid-19 and refugees from Turkey. Graglia: “The European Union is powerless”

Health issues, foreign policy, migration, education and research, “are clearly of supranational nature in terms of scale and resources to…

Migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece: Von der Leyen, “aid to Greece, but Ankara is not an enemy”. EU leadership, strategy for unaccompanied minors

Migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece. Mitsotakis (Greek PM), “Turkey first official human trafficker”. Call for EU support

Italian Bishops’ meeting on the Mediterranean. Card. Angelo Bagnasco (CCEE): “Europe, do not become insensitive, don’t turn a blind eye”

Card. Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences ( CCEE): “People can become insensitive…

Sahel: Grandi (UN), poverty, violence, internal displacement. “Act now before the crisis becomes unmanageable”