After more than 2,000 migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend, various EU member states have reacted to the situation. Italy is calling once again for EU solidarity, but how would it be enacted and which member states will come forward to help?
Today, Minister of the Interior, Aleš HOJS, attended the Ministerial conference in Lisbon on the Management of Migration Flows, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council to strengthen partnerships between the EU and countries of origin and transit and promote legal migration and integration of migrants. Ministers of Interior Aleš Hojs and Eduardo Cabrita
In addition to representatives of the EU Member States, the European Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and Frontex, the interior ministers of some African partner countries, such as Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Niger and Tunisia, as well as representatives of the international organisations UNHCR, IOM and ICMPD, took part in the conference.
A Ministerial Conference on Migration Flow Management will be held on 11 May next at 09h00 (Lisbon time), organised under the scope of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union
The conference, in hybrid format, will take place in the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, and is one of the main initiatives of the Portuguese Presidency in the migration area, as well as an opportunity for further political dialogue with the countries of North Africa.
Taking part in the conference will be the Ministers for Home Affairs of the Member States of the European Union and Ministers and representatives of partner countries - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Tunisia.
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Although Greece has said that asylum-seekers will be accommodated by its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan, thousands of asylum-seekers who live in refugee camps across Greece will have to wait. Credit:
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Back home in Afghanistan, Rahima Yousefi was a security guard at a women’s prison. Today, she’s on the lookout for dangerous COVID-19 rumors circulating at the refugee camp where she’s waiting out her asylum application.
“Some people don’t believe in COVID-19. They say it is something fake, and there is no coronavirus. But I always tell them to take it seriously, put on their mask[s], and wash their hands.”