The new EU migration pact is broken down into 4 categories:

1⃣Secure external borders
2⃣Fast & efficient procedures
3⃣Effective system of solidarity & responsibility
4⃣Embedding migration in international partnerships

We take a look at what it means👇🏾

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Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said that his country was working on an agreement between Lebanon and the EU aimed at stemming the departure of migrants from Lebanese shores.

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Several hundred people mainly of Syrian origins who were seeking to enter Cyprus from Lebanon have in recent weeks been intercepted by the Cypriot authorities and sent back towards Lebanon, where social tensions against Syrian refugees have risen.

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The bodies of nine migrants found in a small boat in northern Brazil could have been hoping to travel to the Canary Islands, authorities believe.

A person from Mali and one from Mauritania are thought to be among the nine corpses.

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📷Some 700 people, mostly African migrants and asylum seekers, gathered in a peaceful demonstration in Nicosia, calling for equal rights for all migrants in Cyprus.
Migrants interviewed by Cyprus Mail called for an end to 'mass deportations' and 'excessive police abuse.'

The Finnish prime minister has called on the EU to help his country stop the arrival of migrants via Russia.

🇫🇮 closed its eastern border in mid-December after nearly 1,000 migrants had arrived without a visa through its frontier with 🇷🇺 since August.

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Migrants are ever more discriminated against and the right to asylum is 'disappearing' for refugees, according to a report issued on April 18 in Rome by Centro Astalli, the Jesuit service for refugees in Italy.

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An estimated 20.8 million people had moved from one African country to another as of 2020, according to a new report by IOM and the African Union.

Meanwhile 19.7 million people had left the continent for non-African countries.

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Volunteers have overhauled a burial site for dead migrants on Lesbos.

They spent months clearing the plot, uncovering and counting graves that had disappeared beneath tall grass over the years, Reuters reported.

The cemetery is located ~20 kilometers from Mytiline, the capital.

The eviction of a migrant camp in a Paris suburb is the latest effort to get migrants out of public view before the global spotlight is on the French capital this summer.

Rights groups like Médecins du Monde fear the evicted will be left even more vulnerable. infomigrants.net/en/post/56528/…

On Friday, a court dismissed the charges against 10 crew who worked on the #Iuventa and other migrant rescue ships in the central Med.

Prosecutors were unable to find sufficient evidence for facilitating 'illegal immigration'.

iuventa-crew Amnesty EU
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🇫🇮's gov plans to reform asylum & citizenship laws:

🔸 fewer benefits for refugees & asylum seekers
🔸 shorter residency permits for refugees
🔸 naturalization will take longer
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Italian President Sergio Mattarella praised the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum during an official 2-day visit to Bulgaria.

Mattarella met with his Bulgarian counterpart, Rumen Radev.

#MigrationPact
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📷 Around 4,500 people came to a job fair for migrants on Wednesday in Berlin.

80 Berlin companies from trade, crafts and industry to transport and logistics were exhibiting there.

The #FutureTogetherBerlin event was organized by the Berlin job centers and three other entities.

Volunteers have overhauled a burial site for dead migrants on Lesbos.

They spent months clearing the plot, uncovering and counting graves that had disappeared beneath tall grass over the years, Reuters reported.

The cemetery is located ~20 kilometers from Mytiline, the capital.

Slovakia this week declared it would refuse to implement the new EU Migration Pact rules.

This is a sign that tensions around the matter remain, Reuters reported - despite the new pact finally being approved by the European Parliament last week.
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An official at the UK's Interior Ministry has been suspended from their job and arrested, British public broadcaster BBC has revealed.

The official is being accused of attempting to sell residency to at least one asylum seeker.
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📷 Migrants continued to arrive on Spain's Canary islands over the past few days via the so-called Atlantic route from western Africa.

With ~14,000 arrivals since the beginning of the year, it's currently the 2nd-most active migration route after the Eastern Med.

#Canarias

Following up on our initial request for information, we have now decided to open an inquiry into how European Commission guarantees respect for #HumanRights in context of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding.

Find the details of the inquiry here: ombudsman.europa.eu/case/66231?utm…

Opposition lawmakers & activists in Italy have shared a report highlighting a series of dire conditions in certain pre-repatriation centers (CPR).

The document, drafted by Tavolo Asilo e Immigrazione, claims about 500 people are affected.

ASGI #Italy
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