EU: Strategy for dealing with child refugees

EU: Strategy for dealing with child refugees


The European Union's ministers for the interior and migration have decided to develop an EU-wide strategy for taking care of unaccompanied child refugees, according to Sweden's justice department.


The plan, which was first presented in May, includes measures to guard against risky migration and human trafficking. It also aims to educate EU member countries about the unaccompanied minors and ease their transition back to their home countries if asylum is rejected.


Source: SR (English)

Brussels: Court shooting suspect arrested

Brussels: Court shooting suspect arrested

Yesterday evening, police apprehended a man after a judge and a clerk had been shot dead in a small-claims court in central Brussels. The judicial authorities have confirmed that the man is indeed the lone gunman who committed the court murders yesterday. Apparently, the man was driven by a feeling of vengeance.

France: Prejudices on the rise

France: Prejudices on the rise

More than one in 10 French people admit to being racist and many have prejudicial views of immigrants, homosexuals, blacks, Arab and Jews, according to a survey released Sunday.

Cyprus: Fears of flood of Palestinian immigrants

Cyprus: Fears of flood of Palestinian immigrants

Cyprus fears a flood of Palestinian immigrants from the Gaza Strip owing to Israel's refusal to lift its blockade, Interior Minister Neoklis Sylikiotis said on Thursday.


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"The new developments in the Middle East lead us to fear that more and more Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will seek refuge in Cyprus," he told reporters on arrival for a meeting with EU counterparts in Luxembourg.

"We have already seen more than 2,000 Palestinians coming in from Iraq, and soon we are going to have more and more refugees," he underlined.

Sylikiotis said he would raise his fears with fellow European Union home ministers seeking greater load-sharing.

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Source: France24 (English)

Finland: Bilingual Teachers Bridge Gap between Immigrants and Schools

Finland: Bilingual Teachers Bridge Gap between Immigrants and Schools


Educators in Finland want to improve communication between immigrant families and schools. In the cities of Turku and Tampere, special consultant teachers work as mediators between homes and schools.

BREAKING: Judge shot dead in Brussels court (UPDATE: Suspect caught)

BREAKING: Judge shot dead in Brussels court

Belgian news site HLN reports (NL) the murder suspect is Albanian.

Sweden: Artist accuses museum of censoring gay exhibit

Sweden: Artist accuses museum of censoring gay exhibit

Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson-Wallin is accusing the Muslim of World Culture in Gothenburg of backing out of their arrangement to show her pro-LGBT project "Jerusalem". The project deals with the religious oppression of LGBT people.

The museum responds: that being nunaced is not cowardly, and that they wanted to give religion a voice in the discussion as well.

Belgium: Parents against halal food for their children

Belgium: Parents against halal food for their children

Several parents of children in the Kleine Kunstenaar kindergarten in Houthalen (Belgium) started a petition since their children are being forced to eat halal on a school trip.

Spain: 'Morality police' against prostitutes

Spain: 'Morality police' against prostitutes

Street walkers in Cartagena, on Spain's southern Mediterranean coast, have complained that the imam of a local mosque has launched a campaign of intimidation to get them off the streets.

Copenhagen: Mosque open house

Copenhagen: Mosque open house

Dialog between Danes and Muslims, that's the goal of the Islamic Faith Society when they invite people to an open house in their mosque in Copenhagen next week, says spokesperson Bettina Meisner.