Dutch minister resigns over asylum-seeker crime report

We look at shocking video footage of migrants being tasered or beaten by law enforcement in June at Melilla, a Spanish border post with Morocco. An investigation by several European newspaper sheds light on the violence, in which at least 23 asylum seekers were killed.

With a million Ukrainian refugees and an expected 200,000 asylum claims, migration to Germany this year is set to surpass the 2015 European migrant crisis.

The ruling coalition parties all voted in favor of the bill. But it did meet opposition in the Bundestag, with the CDU/CSU opposition conservative bloc particularly critical.

Over the past few years, tens of thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been expelled from Algeria into Niger. They are taken to the border between the two countries, an open desert, and must then cross 15km on foot to reach the village of Assamaka.

Despite numerous reports and awareness campaigns on irregular migration, many Ivorians want to leave the country. Since 2017, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has assisted more than 1,800 individuals who had embarked on such dangerous journeys to return home voluntarily to rebuild their lives.

The search for a solidarity-based asylum policy continues in the new year. Two camps are irreconcilably opposed in the EU. Will they take in more people or raise barriers to entry?

Two rescue ships with hundreds of migrants on board are waiting for permission to dock at an Italian port, but the new right-wing government has hardened its stance. A third ship has been allowed to proceed and a fourth allowed to dock, but migrants not deemed vulnerable were prevented from disembarking.

Asylum seekers in Greece have had to leave their apartments and move back into refugee camps. Athens says that standards in the camps are high, but migration experts say it's an attempt to deter others.

A big step up in requests for asylum last year has put one of the EU's touchiest issues, migration, back in the limelight. One idea is to leverage visa, aid and trade policy to get third countries to take back deportees.

EU leaders want to prevent migrants from seeking asylum in another country in the bloc if they were already rejected in one. But they are not in agreement on building a wall on the EU's external borders.

Syrians and Afghans applied for asylum in the highest numbers in 2022, following an easing of COVID-19 restrictions and a rise of political insecurity in their respective countries.

The news of another migrant drama off the coast of Italy on February 26 has prompted familiar expressions of shock by EU leaders, as well as familiar calls for the EU to rethink its approach to migration and asylum. Dozens of people are thought to have died in the Mediterranean this year, not just near Italy, but off the coasts of Libya and Tunisia too.