Minister wants EU to assume responsibility for rescue ship
Spain’s acting Minister of Development, José Luís Ábalos, has asked the European Commission to take on greater responsibility when it comes to the fate of...
Proactiva Open Arms
NGO ship released for aid mission but not refugee rescue
The NGO ship Open Arms has received permission to leave Barcelona, where it had been forbidden to set sail from the port for more than...
Amnesty calls on Spain to release migrant rescue ships
Amnesty International has called on the Spanish government to take steps to allow two vessels confined to the ports of Barcelona and Pasaia (in the Basque...
Protests against prohibition of refugee rescue boat
Hundreds of people rallied against Spain’s prohibition on NGO Open Arms to sail for the Mediterranean in order to begin a new search and rescue...
Spain stops Open Arms rescue boat from setting sail
Rescue charity Proactiva Open Arms has said that the authorities are preventing its ship from setting sail from Barcelona to save migrants. ‘We are blocked...
Rescue boat with over 300 migrants reaches Spain
A charity rescue boat carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya docked in Spain on Friday, ending a traumatic journey which saw them spending Christmas...
Rescued migrants head for Spain after Italy closes ports
Spain on Saturday authorised a ship carrying hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya to sail to its waters after Italy and Malta refused to receive...
Migrant rescue ship docks in Spain again after Italy refusal
An NGO ship which saved 87 migrants in distress off Libya docked in Spain on Thursday after roaming the Mediterranean for days, the third such...
‘Buon viaggio’: Salvini mocks Catalan rescue ship
Italy has rejected offering a safe harbor to Proactiva Open Arms’ ships after the Catalan NGO rescued 87 people from drowning in the Mediterranean. “Open...
