Source: Deutsche Welle 16.08.2013. Only in July 2013, 9,500 people requested asylum in Germany. That's almost twice as much as in the same month last year. German authorities are concerned. Most of asylum seekers comes from Chechnya, but there are…
Read moreArrests of smugglers on the border of Albania and Montenegro
Source: Dan 13.avgust 2013. .On August 13th, 2013, Albanian police have arrested 43 Pakistanis and Moroccans near the town of Gjirokastra, who planned to illegally cross the border with Montenegro, in order to proceed to Western Europe. According to local…
Read moreMigrants are loosing their lives trying to reach European coast
Source: Blic, BBC The Italian Coast Guard on August 10th 2013 found six bodies of illegal immigrants at a beach in Sicily, which is believed to be citizens of Syria, while 100 people are rescued.According to Italian investigators, they probably…
Read moreReport of the Austrian Interior Ministry about the migratory routes
Source: B92 13.August 2013. Routes for transfer of the illegal migrants to the countries of the EU are increasingly diverted to the east of Europe, indicates the report of the Austrian Interior Ministry.Researchers pay special attention to Subotica and…
Read moreMore illegal immigrants in Macedonia
Source : Al Jazeera 8.August 2013. Macedonian police claims that the number of migrants in this country is constantly growing, especially in times of economic crisis in Greece.Over Macedonia's territory every year a thousands of migrants crosses in a search…
Read more„Frontex“ report on Western Balkan countries
Source : Banjaluka.com 18. July 2013. Number of asylum applications from Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2013 was higher by 13 percent compared to April 2013, according to the latest data of European Agency for External Borders (Frontex) in…
Read moreGreek authorities endanger the lives of migrants and refugees by forcibly returning them in Turkey
Source : Amnesty International 9. July 2013. Refugees and migrants who come from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan and trying to reach the EU via Greece are at high risk from being unlawfully and forcibly returned to…
Read moreNew camp for asylum seekers opened in Hungary
Source : Subotica com Thousands of migrants, mostly from the Far East has been passing and temporary staying in Subotica in last several years. Migrants who due to economical reasons or political instability in their home countries are trying to…
Read moreMigrants in Greece arrested besed on their physical appearance
Source: Reuters, Blic According to the international human rights organization – Human Rights Watch (HRW), during the suppression of illegal migration Greek police often arrest people based on their physical appearance, but later shows that only a small number of…
Read more25 human traffickers arrested in Croatia
Source: Vijesti 15 May 2013. In mid-May 2013., Croatian Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) has filed an indictment against three Afghans and seven citizens of Croatia for smuggling foreign citizens from Serbia to the countries of…
Read moreMigrants take care of migrants, but also of the Germans
Source: Deutsche Welle 13 May 2013. Migrants in Germany very often live without occupation and without perspective. But now, those who want can finish biannual course for social assistants. It is about education of a staff that is needed for…
Read moreThe million people sought a better life in Germany in the year 2012
08. May 2012. During the last year, due to the crisis in the south and south-east of Europe, Germany has reached a record number of migrants: 1.08 million. Experts say that kind of situation could serve as part of a…
Read more“Invasion” at the Serbian-Hungarian border
Source: B92 17.03.2013. Subotica - In the region of Subotica the situation with the immigrants who are trying to reach West European countries through Serbia and Hungary becomes alarming again. Hungary has changed the regulations so one can…
Read moreAnalysts: Regional solution is a must to curb illegal migration
07/03/2013 Illegal migration is a security threat to Southeast Europe and requires a regional solution, experts say. By Ivana Jovanovic and Miki Trajkovski for Southeast European Times in Belgrade and Skopje -- 07/03/13 A group of illegal immigrants warm up…
Read moreSerbia is the fifth country in the number of asylum applications in EU
BRUSSELS - According to a recent report of European Commission, citizens of Serbia had been ranked fifth for the number of asylum seekers in the European Union, for the last year. Almost 14 000 citizens of Serbia were seeking asylum…
Read moreSolidarity lives here
Le Havre is a film written and directed by Aki Kaurismaki, starring: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darrousin, Blondin Miguel ... duration: 93 minutes, production of Finland / France / Germany, 2011. From the movie "Le Havre" by Aki Kaurismaki…
Read moreFortress Europe
Everybody is Equal. Some people are more equal than others. Since the public attention in the European Union is being systematically oriented away from the issue of immigration policy, and the European political agenda is drawing clear lines between the…
Read moreThe crossing point
Illegal immigration Would-be immigrants to Europe can go almost anywhere—for a price IT TAKES a few minutes to cross the Evros river, now the main entry point for illegal immigrants from Asia into Europe, but it can be frightening. On…
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