Cultural globalization

As Greece continues to struggle with an increase in arrivals of undocumented migrants from neighboring Turkey, the European commissioner for migration said on Wednesday that a European Union agreement with Ankara to curb people smuggling is working well but that more effort is needed to accelerate asylum applications.

Bulgaria has received so far 50 migrants from Greece under the EU relocation quotas, data of the European Commission presented on September 6, reported Standart News.

Bulgaria promised to receive 860 migrants from Greece. No migrants were received by the beginning of this week from Italy and Turkey.

Bulgaria has to receive from Italy 471 under that agreement.

The European Union's top court has dismissed complaints by Slovakia and Hungary about EU migration policy, dealing a blow to the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his allies in central Europe over the bitterly contested policy of refugee quotas, reported The Guardian. 

Human rights group Amnesty International has welcomed a ruling by the European Court of Justice against Hungary and Slovakia on the relocation of asylum-seekers, saying they have been trying to turn their countries into "refugee-free zones."

The European Union's top court dismissed complaints on Wednesday by Slovakia and Hungary about EU migration policy, upholding Brussels's right to force member states to take in asylum seekers.

Sweden is about to deport an Afghan centenarian after the 106-year-old woman's asylum application was rejected, Associated Press reported.

Greece's Asylum Service on Friday published data showing that more than 18,000 asylum seekers were relocated from Greece to other countries in the European Union from October 2015 until August 27 of this year and that flights are already scheduled for another 984 people.

Citizens of EU Member States who live or seek employment in Germany can not permanently be excluded from the social assistance system. This was ruled by the German court about social affairs. Reports Mediapool. 

The federal government in Berlin is suspending the return of asylum seekers to Hungary due to the poor conditions in the country, Spiegel reported.

The conditions in which refugees live in Hungary are considered uncertain by the German government. For this reason, Berlin will no longer send back to Hungary people applying for political protection status.

Germany and other European countries are to begin the process of returning refugees to Greece next month, Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas has told a British newspaper, at a time when arrivals of undocumented migrants on Greek islands from neighboring Turkey are increasing.