Mediterranean

Mediterranean

Italy's Salvini in Libya as migrants disembark Danish cargo ship

Italy's new government took its fight to block migrants to Libya on Monday as a new boat with hundreds on board remained stranded at sea, deepening a crisis shaking Europe.

Immigration

Italy’s refusal of Maersk migrants 'unreasonable': Denmark’s immigration minister

Danish minister for immigration Inger Støjberg says that Italy must accept migrants rescued by shipping company Maersk.

Immigration

Danish ship rescues 222 boat refugees

The Danish shipping firm Torm came to the aid of two rubber dinghies crammed with asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, the company said in a press release on Tuesday.

Immigration

Can the Mediterranean drownings be stopped?

No one would argue that nothing should be done about the urgent plight of the thousands of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean. Morten Kjærum, the new director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, says that European countries need to pull together to save refugees’ lives.

Immigration

Denmark: More needed to stop mass drownings

After what a UN official described as a “massacre” upon the Mediterranean, Denmark’s foreign minister has called for Europe to help Italy deal with the migrants attempting to reach the EU by sea.