She said that the United Kingdom also believed that there needed to be a proper process for assessing claims for asylum by migrants, with those who were not entitled to refugee status being returned to their country of origin.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his “personal initiative” would see “generous” European Union quotas to bring in refugees from crisis-hit regions and spread them around the continent.
Pope Francis has faced criticism for refusing to meet with human rights activists in Cuba, and has been accused of largely ignoring the issue of human rights during his visit. Although he telephoned some dissidents on Sunday to give a “passing greeting”, they were...
Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – the last of which has been strongly chided for its treatment of incoming refugees – all voted against the proposal.
The visits aimed to have a first-hand look at the conditions of Syrian refugees in the Kingdom, mainly in refugee camps, and the need for increasing worldwide support to Jordan as a safe host country for refugees, in a bid to minimise illegal crossings of migrants into Europe.
Well first, because the “pull factor” for refugees and economic migrants from North Africa and the Mid-East is now super-charged by German statements and sentiments it is incumbent on Germany to properly register all the migrants who are now being funnelled to them...
His corrective about his ideology is a significant prelude to his arrival in the US , as the Democratic Party has increasingly attempted to claim Francis as their policy champion over the past few months. Numerous tickets were handed out early and they will not be scalped as some...
Francis delivered a mostly religious homily to the tens of thousands present, but sprinkled it with criticism of “elitism” and ideology. “And the Holy Father’s presence has been such a blessing”, said O’Malley. Saturday night, the pope pressed...
Several hundred asylum-seekers are camping out at the Turkish border with Greece, hoping that a meeting in Brussels will produce an agreement to let them into the European Union.
A second Republican attempt to block the Iran nuclear deal failed on the Senate floor Tuesday as calls for Republican leaders to abandon their efforts to condemn the deal grew louder.