AGENDA (Kathimerini) Europe’s migration chief vows to deliver on deportation pledge – The European Union’s top migration official said Thursday that deportations were a key priority for the bloc’s executive branch, as Greece grapples with a high number of people arriving irregularly across the country’s borders.
ATLANTIC ROUTE (Euronews) Dozens of Pakistani migrants feared to have drowned in Atlantic Ocean – A Spain-based migrant rights group, Walking Borders, said that 50 people had died on their way to the Canary Islands and that 44 of them were Pakistanis.
BALKAN ROUTE (InfoMigrants) Frontex data on Balkan route ‘only part of reality,’ says ICS – The non-profit lay organisation Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS) that works with migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the north-east of the country, around the city of Trieste and in the region bordering Slovenia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, believes that recent data released by the EU border agency Frontex only shows a partial picture of reality for people on the Balkan route.
CHANNEL (InfoMigrants) France: Nearly 50 people intercepted and rescued on Channel coast – Nearly 50 people, including a pregnant woman, were intercepted and rescued on the beach of Normandy, northern France as they were preparing to board a makeshift boat to enter the UK by crossing the English Channel on Thursday [January 16].
EU EXTERNAL PARTNERS (New Arab) Italy arrests Libyan police head, Osama Najim – Police in Italy have arrested the head of Libya's judicial police who directs Tripoli’s Mitiga detention centre, Italian news reports said Monday [20 January].
EU EXTERNAL PARTNERS (EUobserver) Shadow cast over EU commission’s ‘do-no-harm’ principle in Libya – The European Commission says a contractor it hired to monitor rights in Libya does not report on any evidence that its policies are harmful.
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