Italy: Report on Effects of the “Security Decrees” on Migrants and Refugees in Sicily

10th January 2020 | News

Borderline-Europe publishes its 2019 report “The situation of refugees in Sicily”, focusing on the impact of the Decree Law 113/2018, implemented by Law 132/2018 on the asylum system. Despite a change of government in Italy in September 2019, the Law on immigration...

Italy: Rescued Asylum Seekers Left in “Extremely Critical” Conditions in Messina Hotspot

18th October 2019 | News

A monitoring report by the NGOs ASGI, Borderline and ActionAid draws attention to the critical conditions asylum seekers are facing in the hotspot in Messina, Italy, while they are waiting for relocation. The monitoring was carried out through five meetings with about...

Italy: List of 13 Safe Countries of Origin to Boost Return Policies

11th October 2019 | News

On October 4 the Italian government signed a decree establishing a list of countries designated as “safe countries of origin”. The concept was introduced for the first time in the Italian asylum procedure following the 2018 legislative reform and its implementation...

Italy: Decree Sets Out Areas for Application of Border Procedure*

27th September 2019 | News

The Italian Ministry of Interior adopted a decree on 5 August 2019 to determine the areas in which the border procedure will be applied. The border procedure was introduced in Article 28-bis(1-ter) of the Procedure Decree by the 2018 reform and foresees a 9-day...

Italy: Officials of the Italian Coast Guard Prosecuted for Shipwreck in 2013

20th September 2019 | News

On 16 September 2019, the Tribunal of Rome admitted the criminal trial against two officials of the Italian Coast Guard for the death of 268 people. That was the death toll caused by a shipwreck of a vessel that had set out from Libya the previous night in the...