InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/02/26
The number of individuals seeking asylum in Austria has risen by roughly 10% in 2020. During the same period, the overall number of people seeking protection in the EU dropped by 31%.
The Austrian interior ministry reported that it had received nearly 14,200 applications from asylum seekers during the last year the highest number the country has seen since 2017.
Senior Austrian interior ministry official Wolfgang Taucher said at a press conference that the numbers had increased because of Austria s geographic location bordering the so-called Balkan route. Taucher said this was in line with the fact that countries in the Balkan region, including Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, had also seen rising numbers.
By Charlotte Oberti Published on : 2021/02/19
Eight months after arriving in France, 10-year-old Fatimate from Côte d Ivoire and her family were about to be deported back to Italy. Thanks to a protest by the girl s school, the deportation has been postponed. But it has not been cancelled.
Up until recently, Fatimate did not talk much to her fellow students about her unusual past. But then everything changed.
On February 8, the school that she attends the Fernand-Labori school in the 18th arrondissement (disctrict) of Paris rallied together to fight for her and her parents to prevent them from being deported to Italy, which was the first European country they entered. According to the Dublin regulation, they have to return there to undergo their asylum process. Since then, Fatimate has been attracting a lot more attention.