Netherlands
Stories affecting Netherlands applications, newest first, each linking to the publisher that wrote it. Netherlands is in the Schengen Area, so its announcements appear here too.
A refrigerated lorry with at least 34 migrants hidden inside was stopped in Poland. Border officials said that the vehicle had Lithuanian number plates and was headed in the direction of Germany.
Mechanised and tank battalions are training in border protection and counter-drone operations along the 104-kilometre Polish-Lithuanian corridor, NATO's only land link to the Baltic states.
The European People’s Party and Socialists clashed in a heated European Parliament debate, with shouting and mutual accusations exposing deepening divisions over migration within the coalition backing Ursula von der Leyen.
First-time asylum applications in Germany fell significantly in the first half of 2026, even as the approval rate for applicants increased, new official data shows.
Residents in the British village of Piddington are voting on Tuesday in a symbolic local referendum about whether to declare their village 'independent' from the UK. The vote is taking place in protest at government plans to house around 1,200 male asylum seekers at nearby military barracks. The res…
European Commission Speech Strasbourg, 15 Sep 2026 The Spanish city of Ceuta has just over 80,000 inhabitants and in the last two days of July almost the same amount of people entered illegally from the other si...
At least 17 Afghan migrants, including six children, have died from extreme dehydration in a remote desert region along the Iran-Afghanistan border, says Iranian human rights group Haalvsh.
Some six weeks after the mass arrival of migrants to Spain's Ceuta enclave, police have relocated hundreds of migrants to a new facility. Authorities have moreover said that over 5,000 migrants were sent back to Morocco over the last month.
Following violent clashes earlier this month, fresh anti- and pro-migrant protests took place in the British city of Portsmouth over the weekend. The town of Tamworth, in Staffordshire, saw a similar anti-migrant rally too.