Marion MacGregor

Dec 12, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Marion MacGregor

The European Commission said on Wednesday that Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway would receive an additional 170 million euros "to upgrade electronic surveillance equipment, improve telecommunication networks, deploy mobile detection equipment and counter drone intrusions."The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the funding package on the social media platform X, after talks with Finland’s prime minister, Petteri Orpo.

Dec 10, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Daline Salahie |Marion MacGregor

While the situation continues to evolve at rapid speed, German authorities have already announced that they will stop processing Syrian asylum applications. This won’t affect Syrians who are already in the asylum system or who are settled in Germany, but they have another reason to be worried – There are around 330,000 Syrians who have subsidiary protection, a temporary status which can be lifted as soon as the conditions in Syria are considered safe enough for them to return.

Dec 9, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Marion MacGregor |Mohamed Farhat

Thousands of Syrians have taken part in celebrations across Europe after the Assad government was overturned at the weekend by an Islamist alliance. In the German capital Berlin, where more than a million Syrians make up the largest diaspora in Europe, an estimated 5,000 people, including whole families gathered. In the cold drizzle, they waved flags and banners reading "Free Syria" and "Freedom". What does the fall of Assad mean for Syrians in Germany?

Dec 9, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Marion MacGregor

The asylum seekers' ordeal finally ended on December 2-3. For more than three years the group – which included 16 children – had been held on Diego Garcia, one of the world's most remote islands in the Indian Ocean, where they were taken after being rescued at sea. Their situation there had been so bad that there had been repeated attempts at suicide and self-harm by as many as 20 members of the group.

Dec 5, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Marion MacGregor

Migrants who set out from Libya in small boats across the Mediterranean face multiple potential dangers. The bodies that regularly wash up on the country's shores are testimony to the major risk that the boat will get into trouble on the high sea and its occupants will drown or die from dehydration. But there is also a possibility, even if they travel by night to avoid detection, that the migrants will be stopped and "pulled back" by the Libyan coast guard.