Europe’s migration politics harden through protests, counter-protests and legal backlogs

Published by Albis · 16 Jun 2026

Supplied reporting shows anti-migrant mobilisation in Rome, an anti-racist rally in Belfast and asylum-law pressure in the UK, but it supports a cautious picture rather than one single Europe-wide policy shift

• • Migration remains one of Europe’s strongest links between domestic political competition and bloc-level legal change.
• • The same report says many participants raised fascist salutes and chanted “Duce,” a reference to Benito Mussolini.
• • Anti-migrant groups including Casapound took part.
• • Luca Marsella, described as a spokesperson for the group, said they wanted to remove illegal immigrants and also legal immigrants who, in his words, had not adapted or integrated.