The Polish authorities have been searching for bodies in wetlands at the Polish-Belarus border after at least three bodies of migrants were found in the last ten days. There are fears that the death toll could rise.
According to UK Home Office data, in the first half of 2022, "more than half of all small boat modern slavery referrals came from Albania." The figures were published by the think tank Migration Watch on Friday.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on January 11 issued a statement urging Sweden’s rotating presidency of the European Union to safeguard those who are forced to flee their home countries.
Italy's interior minister has denied that political considerations play a part in the assigning of a port for NGO migrant rescue ships to disembark those on board as number of arrivals surges.
Sweden takes over the rotating EU Presidency at the beginning of the new year. After a new government took power in October promising to get tougher on immigration, could those attitudes spill over into European policy next year?