Germany on course for grand coalition between conservatives and social democrats after CDU victory
Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next German chancellor in election where far-right AfD doubled support
Migrant Crisis
Germany faces tricky talks on new coalition as far-right AfD becomes electoral force
A tired-looking Olaf Scholz says that just as the 2021 victory was his, the 2025 defeat was also his
German elections: ‘A bad feeling is growing’ as country looks for bridge to better future
On Sunday, 59.2 million German voters go to the polls at a time of unprecedented domestic and international tensions
Young homeless migrants ‘forgotten by the State’ occupy Paris theatre
Hundreds of homeless migrants take over Gaîté Lyrique in protest against French authorities
Germany to set up centralised deportation facilities in bid to tackle migration
Opposition politicians denounce ‘Dublin Centres’ as pre-election gestures by a government that has lost control of asylum process
Spain to give legal status to 25,000 migrants affected by Valencia floods
Measure aims to ‘protect foreigners in situations of maximum vulnerability’
Number of Palestinians seeking asylum in Ireland rises eight-fold
Israel must respect that ‘Ireland is for Irish people and Palestine is for Palestinians’, says Palestinian ambassador to Ireland
What it would take for America to deport 11 million immigrants
Donald Trump has promised mass deportations but his plans will face enormous financial, legal and logistical hurdles at every step of the process
European political centre may regret borrowing from far-right’s migration playbook
By trying to cut off support for the far right, the European centre is normalising their extreme policies
What’s it like to be 25 in Ireland today? 70% live at home with their parents, CSO finds
Fewer than one in 20 own their own home, almost seven in 10 live with their parents, one in eight have emigrated - a snapshot CSO survey shows the pressure on twentysomethings
Planning exemption for conversion of Dublin 4 office into asylum-seeker housing challenged
Co Louth-based John Conway wants High Court to strike down Dublin City Council’s decision
Fifty people die during crossing to Canary Islands, says Spanish charity
Total of 10,547 migrants died trying to reach Spain by boat last year, according to monitoring group Caminando Fronteras
Case of Afghan boy (15) allegedly forced back out to sea on raft ruled inadmissable by human rights court
Child‘s statements ‘contradictory and inconsistent at times’ while he failed to prove he was in Greece at time of alleged events
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
Elon Musk article praising far-right AfD condemned by German political parties and press bodies
CDU leader and other politicians criticise media group Axel Springer over publication of opinion piece by US billionaire in Welt am Sonntag
‘No place to hide’: Trapped on the US-Mexico border, immigrants fear deportation
Thousands of illegal immigrants living in a netherworld along the Texas border are braced for the likelihood of a long-promised crackdown once Donald Trump assumes office
Ceann comhairle vote: Harris urges TDs to support Verona Murphy despite his previous concerns over ‘stoking’ of ‘unfounded racist fears’
Micheál Martin also calls on Fianna Fáil TDs to vote for Wexford TD but in 2020 described her remarks on asylum seekers ‘quite dangerous’
Minister concedes in High Court challenge to order facilitating asylum-seeker housing in Athlone
Roderic O’Gorman’s plan for site to rear of direct provision centre in Lissywollen to be considered an ‘unauthorised development’
The Color of Family: History, Race and the Politics of Ancestry: Academic page-turner decodes US administrative racism
Michael O’Malley explores how scientific biology informs the arbitrariness of ‘racecraft’ found in family records
‘We need time’: Syrians in Europe resist calls to return home
Refugees in Germany and elsewhere are in ‘wait and see’ mode after fall of Assad regime
EU to limit asylum rights in response to Russian ‘weaponisation’ of migration
European Commission clears countries to take emergency measures to stop Russia facilitating migrant flows into eastern states
Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Focusing on the impact on wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow a frame of analysis
A Dante for Ireland: Exile and purgatory reinvented for the dislocated
Colcester, Florence, Belfast and elsewhere all intermingle in Philip Terry’s version of Dante’s Purgatorio
Britain pauses Syrian asylum decision process after fall of Assad
Focus will be reflection on ‘diplomatic relations with Syria’ and a cautious observation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Homeless asylum seekers camped near Dáil offered accommodation after standoff with gardaí
Some 50 tents pitched at Kildare Place on Thursday after men told to leave ‘cold weather’ beds in Citywest
‘It doesn’t have to be them or us’: Teachers behind new book of refugees’ stories want to challenge stereotypes
Leah O’Shaughnessy and Melanie Martin co-wrote the book in the wake of the Dublin riots
We are heading for an election result replete with uncertainty
Election 2024: We may be about to see the consequences of political opportunism, inexperience and immaturity
Pregnant and seeking asylum: ‘Imagine the journey some of these women have been on’
Coombe hospital-linked Daisy Clinic provides maternity and gynaecological care to pregnant women who are within the international protection system
Canada fears Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations will push migrants north
Canadian authorities are preparing for a surge in migrants crossing from the US, while allies of the incoming US president have raised alarm over a recent spike in migrants coming in from Canada
Anti-immigration candidates: Do any of them have a chance of winning a seat in the 34th Dáil?
Six people with anti-immigration positions were elected in the June local elections when it was a hot-button issue - the temperature is lower in this general election campaign
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban gives insight to his ‘lonely’ worldview
Europe Letter: Viktor Orban is the guy at the party most of the other EU leaders wish had left early
‘Deep concern’ over families evicted from direct provision despite gaining status - Ombudsman
Letter to ministers Darragh O’Brien and Roderic O’Gorman warned movements are having ‘devastating impact’ on children’s rights
Suad Aldarra awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Syrian-Irish writer’s memoir I Don’t Want to Talk About Home was published in 2022
‘I want to go to Chicago’: Immigrants, vigilantes and good samaritans on the US-Mexico border
Immigration and border security are key issues in the US presidential election campaign, yet those making the crossing care more for food and water than politics
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