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EU immigration

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Italian economy
    Italy’s exodus of young talent worsens population squeeze

    Central bank governor Fabio Panetta warns the brain drain is adding to pressure on the economy

    A traveller heading towards the departure gates at Turin airport in Italy
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Portugal
    Far-right Chega party becomes main opposition in Portugal

    Election result signals end of dominance of two centrist forces and could produce another fragile minority government

    André Ventura
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Interview
    Austrian chancellor says EU asylum rules are no longer fit for purpose

    Christian Stocker adopts hardline policy in bid to bring ‘contentment’ to Austrian voters riled up by far right

    Chancellor Christian Stocker
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Meloni angers Italian Americans with tighter citizenship rules

    US diaspora riled by Rome’s move to make it harder to obtain an Italian passport

    Italian passport on a US flag
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Portugal
    Portugal’s centre-right pitches ‘humane’ migration stance ahead of vote

    Governing Democratic Alliance seeks to stave off anti-immigrant Chega party in Sunday’s parliamentary election

    A protest in Lisbon against recent changes to immigration legislation
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Keir Starmer’s tough talk on immigration

    To reduce inflows of foreign workers, Labour must address the shortages that drove them

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks in Downing Street
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    UK and France in talks over a migrant returns agreement

    Britain would be able to deport one person in exchange for the French sending another individual the other way

    A crowded inflatable boat carrying a large group of migrants wearing life jackets and warm clothing, struggling to stay balanced as they cross a body of water
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Austria takes step to block family reunification for migrants

    Country would be first EU nation to implement policy long advocated by the far right

    People walk towards the entrance of the support and intake centre for asylum seekers in Thalham near St Georgen im Attergau, Upper Austria
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Anywhere But Here — deadly crossings and an asylum system fraught with further dangers

    A former diplomat’s unflinching account of migrant journeys to Britain advocates for more humane and practical reforms

  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    German politics
    Berlin seeks to deport EU citizens over pro-Palestinian protests

    Irish, Polish and US activists appeal rulings based on events at university sit-in against Israeli offensive in Gaza

    Police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters in October last year
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Sweden
    Swedish companies join forces to steer children away from gang crime

    Dozens of big businesses from Ikea to Spotify back youth job initiatives as country grapples with epidemic of violence

    Students walk outside a school
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    EU to toughen stance on migrant returns

    Brussels seeks to send people to ‘return hubs’ outside the bloc if their home countries do not accept them

    Migrants are gathered on the deck of an Italian coastguard ship
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    UK public policy
    The border where Starmer is targeting people-smuggling gangs

    UK government boosts resources at key entry point on Sofia’s border with Turkey amid wider EU ‘reset’

    Adele the sniffer dog searches an old Ford car for a sample of concealed rubber
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    Terrorism in Germany
    Syrian refugee arrested after stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial

    A series of assaults by foreign nationals has fuelled debate about migration ahead of Sunday’s election

    The Holocaust memorial
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    News in-depthGerman election
    How Scholz’s party is losing ground in Germany’s industrial heartland

    Far-right AfD could win its first direct seats in centre-left SPD’s Ruhr stronghold on Sunday

    A split-image showing an industrial metal foundry with molten metal on one side and a large audience attentively listening in a lecture hall on the other
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    ReviewBooks
    Germany votes: best books to read ahead of Sunday’s election

    As the country goes to the polls, writers explore, in fiction and non-fiction, its identity and values — and where these suggest it is heading

    Protestors holding flags and placards in front of the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Alf Dubs
    Protections afforded to refugees benefit us all

    Disregard for the rights of asylum seekers is the canary in the coal mine for international law

    A member of UK Border Force staff assists a female evacuee as refugees arrive in London from Afghanistan
  • Saturday, 15 February, 2025
    German immigration
    Two die after Afghan man drives car into Munich protest

    More than 30 people injured in the third attack by a migrant in Germany in three months

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C), Munich’s mayor Dieter Reiter (L), and German Minister of Justice and Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport Volker Wissing (R) lay flowers at the mourning site
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    News in-depthGerman election
    German city scarred by Nazi past grapples with rise of far right

    Pforzheim is a microcosm of migration and economic debates boosting AfD ahead of Germany’s federal elections

    Zerrenner Street in Pforzheim, southern Germany; the center of Pforzheim, which was destroyed during the Second World War, in spring 1949.
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Europe
    Europe’s emboldened far right lauds Trump at Madrid rally

    Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán and Geert Wilders endorse call for EU to copy US president’s policies

    Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Santiago Abascal, Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini appeared together onstage
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why the EU’s deportation plans risk ‘serious’ human rights violations Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: corporate car fleets could be a boon for struggling electric car manufacturers

    Migrants board a bus after disembarking from a patrol boat upon their return from Albania, in Bari, Italy on February 1
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Cyber Security
    Russian role in buying software for EU border system probed

    Investigation examines how French IT group Atos used Moscow office for sensitive European computer project

    A montage of the Atos logo, the colours of the French flag and a border control sign
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    The Baby Gap
    The country that emigration left behind

    Waves of departures for jobs abroad and a low birth rate have emptied Bulgaria’s villages. The social fabric is at stake

    A young girl sitting at a school desk holding up a drawing of a house
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    German politics
    German parliament rejects Merz’s migration bill backed by far right

    Vote caps fraught debate over growing influence of Alternative for Germany party in Europe’s largest country

    Leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats Friedrich Merz
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    UK immigration
    New UK asylum bill to criminalise those who seek to prevent small boat rescues

    Proposed government legislation would result in 100 more people being jailed each year, according to estimates

    Migrants rescued from a boat crossing the English Channel land on Dungeness in Kent
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