In 2021, more than 11,000 migrants have entered Germany using irregular means from Belarus, traveling through Poland. The number of arrivals reached a peak of almost 5,300 people in October.
Fifteen EU countries have pledged to offer protection to nearly 40,000 people from Afghanistan. Germany alone has agreed to take in more than half of the evacuees.
Hungary's top court did not rule on a challenge to the primacy of EU law in its response to an EU court finding that Budapest broke the bloc's laws by deporting asylum seekers.
This is the story of Amer, a former Syrian school teacher who ended up in Belarus from Damascus in search of a better future in Europe. He has been living in a basement on the outskirts of Minsk while waiting for a call from a smuggler who is supposed to take him to Germany.
The president of the Italy-based NGO Habeshia Agency sent a letter to the European Parliament calling for a "radical revision" of policy towards Libya, especially regarding the thousands of migrants currently stuck there.