The Netherlands and seven other EU countries include 49 migrants who are on board two ships. The Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, made this outcome of consultations between European countries...
More and more Turks are applying for asylum in EU countries. In October there were 2880, 9 percent more than the previous month and a record number. The majority has recently arrived in the EU, reports it...
Researchers in Malta say the organizers are on the trail of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia last October. Three people have already been charged with the murder, but it was unclear whether they operated independently.
For the island of Malta, 149 refugees were rescued in the Mediterranean on Tuesday. The group was in a big dinghy, which had been 'in trouble' about 60 nautical miles from Malta, the Maltese forces said.
The Maltese forces have picked up 120 migrants from a boat on the Mediterranean. The refugees in distress were accidentally discovered during a routine check-up off the coast of Malta, let the army of the Mediterranean island know. It is expected that the crew will be brought ashore on Sunday.
A naval ship brought 58 migrants and a dog to Malta in Malta. The migrants were picked up from the sea over a week ago by the rescue ship Aquarius off the Libyan coast.
A solution was found for the 58 migrants aboard the ship Aquarius, which was sailing off the coast of Libya. They are brought to Malta and distributed over four countries in the EU. That's what sources around the Maltese government have stated on Tuesday.
The trial against Jelle R., who is suspected of the murder of his compatriot Shannon Mak, will be continued on Tuesday on the island of Malta.
They are young and tuk on adventure. Hundreds of Dutch people in the prime of their lives are flying to Malta with great enthusiasm, where they can get to work at one of the many online casinos. In reality they end up in a Dutch community that is a poisonous cocktail of alcohol, drugs and stress. Jelle R., suspected of the murder of Shannon Mak, also went under the influence of drugs according to witnesses. 'And there will certainly be more casualties here.'
The captain of the Lifeline ship may leave Malta to visit his elderly mother (93) in Germany. The judge determined that Tuesday after the request of 57-year-old Claus-Peter Reisch. He remains suspect in Malta, reports the Times of Malta.
A 25-year-old Dutchman was badly injured on Malta on Friday. Three other Dutch people were slightly injured. They walked early Friday morning on a boulevard of the capital Valletta. There they were scooped by a car. The driver of this had lost control of the wheel.
The captain of the ship Lifeline, from the German aid organization Mission-Lifeline, is being prosecuted by the judiciary in Malta and must be prevented on Monday. The Maltese lawyer of the organization announced this on Thursday.
The captain of the ship Lifeline, from the German aid organization Mission-Lifeline, was heard for the second time by the Maltese police on Thursday. Captain Claus-Peter Reisch was allowed to berth his boat, after days in bad weather on the Mediterranean Sea, to build in Malta on Wednesday evening. He had about 230 migrants on board. Shortly afterwards, Reisch was already questioned by the police.
The controversial boat Lifeline of the German organization Mission-Lifeline walked into the port of Maltese Valletta on Wednesday. The crew had previously been allowed to dock in Malta on Wednesday. On arrival in Valletta, emergency services brought three babies and another person to the hospital directly.
At least two tourists were killed in an accident with a tourist bus in Malta. Six other people were seriously injured, reports the Times of Malta newspaper. That happened reportedly when the double-decker bus in Żurrieq was driving under low-hanging branches of a tree.
More and more Georgians are applying for asylum in the EU. In January the number had increased to 1859, ample doubling in four months. Residents from the former Soviet Republic continue to come although 97 percent of asylum requests are rejected.
The number of asylum applications in the 28 member states of the EU, Switzerland and Norway dropped by 43 percent last year to almost 707,000, the European asylum agency EASO reports. This number is still higher than in 2014, the year before Europe experienced a huge influx of migrants.
After the assassination of a research journalist in Malta, thousands of people in the capital of Valletta have demonstrated justice for Sunday. They demanded a quick solution to the case and the end of corruption in politics and the authorities.
Hundreds of protesters entered Malta after the death of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Angry residents gathered outside a courthouse to demand justice.
The parliament of Malta decided on Wednesday evening to allow marriage between men and women or women. Only members of the Nationalist Opposition Party voted against the amendment of the law.
The Maltese Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, can make up for a second term of five years after early elections. His Labor Party achieved the absolute majority in parliament with 55 percent of the votes.
A formal end to the negotiations on Turkey's accession to the EU is not yet visible. That turned out to be Friday in Malta, where the EU Foreign Ministers met. They argued about the relationship with the candidate member, who increasingly disapproves of the values that Europe stands for.
The European Union is determined to reduce the number of migrants from Africa. The 28 heads of government and heads of state took Friday at a summit in Malta, a ten-point plan that the migration across the Mediterranean decline should shout. The spearhead of the so-called Malta Declaration Libya was the departure point last year for more than 90 percent of the 181,000 boat migrants who reached Italy.
The idea of a group of EU countries to form a kind of breakaway to make faster decisions, find Mark Rutte not the biggest advocate. His Belgian colleague Charles Michel suggests Friday at the EU summit in Malta in order to form a sort of core Europe in areas such as defense, counter-terrorism, energy and investment.
The 28 leaders of the European Union come together Friday in Malta. An important objective of the summit is the number of people who dare to cross into Europe via the Mediterranean to reduce.
Reducing migration from Africa and the future of the EU after the brexit are the main topics of the EU summit to be held Friday in Malta. Donald Trump, however, will surely come to exist, as changing the government during lunch ideas about ' international challenges. ''
Germany wants to keep longer controls at its borders in view of terrorist threats. Now the migrant crisis is still the legal basis for controls at the border with Austria.
'Europe should stop pointing the finger at the people who vote for populist parties, but pay attention to their concerns. We will not avoid debate on migration, and to listen to the concerns of citizens, 'said the Prime Minister of Malta on Wednesday.
Malta adopted January 1 the rotating EU presidency from Slovakia. It is the first time that the southern European island nation of 415,000 people in charge get over the Council of Ministers in Brussels.
The two hijackers of a Libyan passenger plane last Friday had landed in Malta, kidnapping, made the use of force in a plane and cracking dependents. Both men declared Sunday before the court in the Maltese capital Valletta not guilty. If they are convicted they can get life for kidnapping.
