Rahima remembers the demonstrations during her childhood in Aleppo. Her teachers organised them, she never questioned what was going on.
“They drew the Syrian flag on our cheeks, gave us signs to hold and told us, standing in front of our school, to shout out that we loved Assad.”
We learned, she told Euronews, the only way to live in Assad s dictatorship is by accepting the repression.
When Rahima was 11 a bomb dropped next to her classroom. Her dad, a Kurdish doctor, came and picked her up and said it would be best to go to their cabin in Afrin in northern Syria for a few weeks until the situation in Aleppo bettered. They stayed there for three years.
Minister Aleš Hojs and minister Mariusz Kaminski |
Author Ministry of the Interior
Both Slovenia and Poland promote the elimination of causes for migration and the external dimension of migration, especially more effective return. The Ministers agreed that the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) should step up talks with key partner countries as soon as possible. Poland prefers the legislative acts under the Pact on Migration and Asylum to be considered and adopted as a package. Mr Hojs presented Slovenia’s position on this matter: “Progress towards a comprehensive EU migration policy could be achieved on the proposal for a regulation on the EU Asylum Agency, which would be exempted from the package. The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) urgently needs a new, broader mandate to provide operational support to Member States.”
Migrants rescued from a craft are given medical attention in ArguineguÃn (Gran Canaria) in March 2021.Ãngel Medina G. / EFE
The more than 4,100 Malians who arrived in Spainâs Canary Islands in 2020 are beginning to be reflected in the official figures of asylum seekers. Up until the start of this year, the citizens from Mali that had arrived in the archipelago were invisible to both Spanish and EU authorities, who considered all arrivals to be economic migrants â not asylum seekers. But according to data from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), seen by EL PAÃS, Malian citizens have made nearly 1,300 formal requests for asylum in Spain in 2021 â the third-highest number of all nationalities.