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UK and Belgium sign first post-Brexit police pact to target Channel smugglers
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (452+ words) Belgian officers would be allowed to carry weapons on some Eurostar trains and join the UK-France intelligence cell in northern France under the deal. Belgium and the UK have signed a police cooperation agreement designed to speed up intelligence sharing…...
UK forced marriage unit takes 100 referrals
1+ week, 3+ day ago (906+ words) UK children are in risk of forced marriage. (Gideon Mendel via Getty Images) Home Office figures obtained under a freedom of information (FOI) request have shown that at least 100 children aged 12 or younger were referred to the Forced Marriage Unit…...
Undercover reporter films Channel smugglers
2+ week, 1+ day ago (463+ words) Christian Drogan paid €1,400 for a place on a dinghy and says four traffickers stepped off mid-crossing onto a French patrol boat An undercover British reporter has filmed French police removing four suspected people smugglers from a migrant dinghy in the…...
UK Home Office hands asylum seekers pamphlets explaining that rape is illegal
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (360+ words) The materials note that "laws and customs here may be different from your home country". The UK Home Office has published a new series of guides and posters for asylum seekers spelling out that having sex without consent is rape,…...
Sweden grants 98 citizenships in July, most of them Nordic
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (640+ words) Sweden’s Migration Agency, Migrationsverket, has granted Swedish citizenship to 98 people in July, the first full month under the country’s stricter eligibility rules, which entered into force on June 6. Official agency figures show that 2,369 new applications were received in July, 2,825 cases…...
Räsänen barred from transiting Heathrow
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (454+ words) Finnish Christian Democrat MP Päivi Räsänen, whose prosecution over Bible-based views on homosexuality has become a prominent European free speech case, says the UK has revoked her permission to transit through London’s Heathrow Airport following her conviction for “hate speech…...
Pakistanis on skilled worker visas bring six times as many dependants to Britain
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (443+ words) New UK government immigration statistics reveal that Pakistani nationals on Skilled Worker visas are bringing significantly more dependants than other major nationalities, with each main applicant accompanied by an average of six family members. According to the Home Office’s Immigration…...
Dutch immigration service stops searching asylum seekers’ phones
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (542+ words) Migrants' devices won't get screened in the Netherlands for now. EPA/JASPAR MOULIJN Just days before the landmark EU Migration and Asylum Pact enters into force on June 12, 2026, Dutch authorities have suspended the examination of smartphones, laptops and tablets belonging…...
City of Hamburg spent almost €600 million to house asylum seekers in hotels
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (382+ words) Refugees are leaving a central reception centre in Hamburg in February 2025. (EPA/GREGOR FISCHER) The city administration of Hamburg has spent €593 million between 2022 and 2025 to pay for hotel rooms for asylum seekers. This was revealed on April 23 following a request…...
Channel crisis: UK and France strike new deal
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (322+ words) Britain and France have agreed in principle on a major new border security pact aimed at stopping illegal migrant crossings across the English Channel. To finalise the details of this new agreement, the interior ministers of both countries, Laurent Nuñez…...