Category: Irregular migration
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Channel crisis update as migrants from 70 countries make crossing
Migrants from at least 70 different countries crossed the English Channel last year, the Daily Express can reveal. The Home Office was on Friday warned the small boat crisis was “spiralling out of control” and “getting worse”, with a record number crossing so far this year. Some 235 people arrived on Thursday, with more detected…
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Germany can turbocharge Europe’s renewal—if it will only seize this moment
Three times in the history of Germany, its chancellors have made strategic choices that opened the door to a better future for Europe. Today, there’s not just an opportunity but an urgent need for a fourth such historic moment. If the country’s new coalition government under Friedrich Merz manages to seize the chance of this crisis, both…
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Transcript of ‘60 Minutes’ Interview With Kamala Harris
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As Pakistanis die in fresh Mediterranean tragedy, a question lingers: Why?
Islamabad, Pakistan – Rehan Aslam’s family ran a transport and car rental business, and grocery stores. Rehan helped run those businesses. But five months ago, the 34-year-old sold his car, a Toyota Hiace wagon, for 4.5 million rupees ($16,000) to pay an agent who would help him leave behind his life in his village, Jora, in…
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TIME Magazine names Donald Trump ‘Person of the Year’
Magazine says we are ‘living in the Age of Trump’ as US president-elect outlines mass deportation and foreign policy plans. TIME Magazine has named Donald Trump its “Person of the Year”, saying “perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history” than the United States president-elect. In…
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NATO’s Dilemma in the MENA Region: A Critical Reflection
NATO’s attention to its Southern neighbours, spanning from Mauritania to the Persian Gulf, has taken multiple forms in the past few decades. The Atlantic Alliance has addressed the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both through multilateral platforms of cooperation and specific NATO-led operations to implement mostly two of the alliances’ core tasks: cooperative…
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The EU and its global partners in a new legislative period
The main driving force for a gradual change of the EU’s approach are the significant changes in the EU’s geopolitical environment. The EU has been dealing with the impact of a war at its immediate doorstep that poses an existential short-, mid- and long-term threat for the EU itself, it is still struggling to develop…
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America Is Cursed by a Foreign Policy of Nostalgia
U.S. foreign policy is adrift between the old order and one that has yet to be defined. Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election awakened many in Washington to the reality that despite the political elite’s presumption of an unassailable foreign policy consensus, many Americans questioned the assumptions that had guided decades of…
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The Case for Engagement With Venezuela
Among the most complex foreign policy challenges facing the new U.S. administration is the situation in Venezuela. Over the past 12 years, Venezuela has transitioned from a fragile democracy to an entrenched authoritarian regime, experiencing one of the most severe economic collapses and migration crises in modern history outside wartime. And in recent years, these…
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U.K. Prime Minister, French Mayors At Odds Over Calais Border Checks
A French gendarme stands next to people waiting for a bus to a refugee camp in Calais, north of … [+] France, on March 16, 2022. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The U.K. Prime Minister has rejected calls from a group of French…