Baltic and Nordic Headlines
Asylum and refugee-related stories in regional media
The ‘Baltic and Nordic Headlines’ is an electronic, free newsletter with translated summaries of asylum and refugee stories from print and broadcast media. Compiled by UNHCR’s regional office in Stockholm, the newsletter is published three times a week.
UNHCR bears no responsibility for the accuracy and content of the press summary, which is based on external news services and does not reflect the views of UNHCR.
- Hunger strike spreads
- Estonia signs border guard cooperation plan with Georgia
- Estonia grants citizenship to 129 new citizens
- Finnish Refugee Council pleads for municipality places
- Schoolchildren without residence permit to get secondary education
- Nathan and his family not yet deported
- Acute need for places for unaccompanied minors
- More than 600 unaccompanied minors disappeared
- Burundi man suspected of spying on refugees
- Ways of creating jobs for immigrants
- Danish Refugee Council: Temporary stay for hunger striking Syrians
- Integration challenges dealt with through cooperation
- Panel on municipalities’ unwillingness to open their doors to refugees
- 7-year old Nathan has become a symbol for the 450 asylum children
- Law firm takes on case of rejected Palestinians
- Police refuses lawyer access to client
- Stateless Bidoon denied asylum in Sweden
- Refugees fleeing from Syria into Lebanon
- Refugee camp in South Sudan looking for water
- Syrian asylum-seekers would rather die than go home
- Asylum-seekers: We are tired of waiting
- Upcoming negations on asylum policy potentially tricky
- Public immigration debate has dropped in popularity
- Järvenpää is preparing to receive quota refugees
- Municipalities not interested in receiving quota refugees
- Large discrepancies between municipalities’ integration ability
- 400 Ethiopian asylum-seekers sue the State
- Football team supports Syrian children by calling for donations to UNHCR
- Pastor Jean returns to Sweden
- Norwegian authorities learn from Skellefteå municipality
- Plight of refugees highlighted across Europe
- 65,000 Syrians have fled their country the past year
- Rejected Syrian asylum-seekers on hunger strike
- Government open to negotiations with Danish People’s Party
- Community centre empowering refugees
- Finnish Refugee Council pleads for more municipality places
- More refugees in need of municipality places
- Municipality pays rejected asylum-seeker parents to visit their children
- Returned Ethiopians do not need to fear for their lives
- A mere 20 per cent of required aid to Syria has been given
- Swedish children highlight the plight of Syrian children
- Broad support to remove point system on family reunification
- Finland looks to criminalize “refugee spying”
- Finns’ attitude towards immigrants has improved
- Lithuanian court recalls search for Gatayev spouses
- Syrian refugees to be granted asylum
- Internal dispute in the Progress Party
- Palestinians want temporary embassy
- Intense debate about asylum policy
- ‘Immigrant children need more schooling’
- Angelina Jolie donates proceeds from wedding photos to UNICEF
- Immigrants to have their own elderly homes in Copenhagen
- Social Democrats accuses Liberal Party of strict immigration policy
- Immigrants unaware of right to vote in local elections
- Immigrants’ business training begins in central Finland
- Refugees are expected to Hangö municipality
- Progress Party willing to give asylum amnesty
- Liberal Party calls Government asylum policy cold-hearted
- 122 refugees find housing in Bergen
- Green Party sets ultimatum regarding asylum policy
- Billström responds to Green Party ultimatum
- Swedish companies increase their philanthropic endeavours
- European municipalities collaborate against racism
- Changes to immigration law praised by NGOs
- Danish People’s Party: immigrants should not be able to vote
- Estonia gets 164 new citizens
- Gatajev granted asylum
- Norwegian-Eritreans threatened and extorted for money
- Sweden’s fourth Migration Court to Luleå
- New centre for integration and multiculturalism to open in Uppsala
- Refugees run a higher risk of suffering from premature death
- Swedish Harnessing Association starts integration project
- Sweden is to receive more migrants than expected
- “Children live in harsh conditions”
- Billström defends deportation of Iraqis
- Frontex and UNHCR on strict border controls in the EU
