The European Commission has announced it will fund new projects costing €171 mln to support migrant reception, asylum and return systems in Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Greece, and Poland. Funding for all countries
In the new academic year, schools will set goals and priorities to help integrate the rising number of migrant students attending class, said Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou. He said there is a
A 43-year-old Greek Cypriot man caught on video assaulting a Congolese woman holding her 11-month-old baby was remanded in police custody for four days on Friday. The man was detained in connection
The Western Balkan route saw the most significant increase in detections of migrants and asylum seekers during the first six months, according to data from EU border agency Frontex. In the first
It would be no shock if Nicosia were secretly studying the UK plan for asylum seekers, sticking them on the plane and sending them 6,500 km away to Rwanda. Britain’s half-baked approach
Eleven unaccompanied migrant children have gone missing since arriving in Cyprus over the last three years, four of them in 2022, said the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare. In a note to
Nicosia urges Brussels to intervene in dealing with migration flows from Turkey, citing evidence that Ankara is instrumentalising migrants against the Republic trying to welcome Ukrainian refugees. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on
Cyprus needs to improve its policies and infrastructure in order to be more humane when accommodating migrant refugees, President Nicos Anastasiades said after visiting the Pournara camp on the western outskirts of
Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has lashed out at authorities over “appalling” conditions under which unaccompanied migrant minors are living at the Pournara reception centre. The Commissioner has launched a probe
Cyprus and the European Union signed a landmark agreement Monday in which Brussels offers operational assistance to help Nicosia handle the EU’s highest influx of migrants per capita. EU Home Affairs commissioner
