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World News

EU calls for solidarity in dealing with the migrant crisis

Europe's border countries are struggling to cope with one of the biggest migration crisis in decades - is the solution just to move them on?

25/08/2015

France

[In pictures] Paris migrants take over disused school

21/08/2015

World News

Germany and France call for stronger EU policy on migrant crisis

Germany and France are urging for policy change at EU level to address the migrant crisis in Europe. Germany’s interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere

21/08/2015

Economy

Greece repays ECB after tapping fresh bailout funds

Greece has repaid 3.2 billion euros to the European Central Bank after Athens received the first emergency loans agreed under the country’s third

20/08/2015

France

British and French ministers to sign Calais migrant deal

French and UK ministers are set to sigh a deal over migrant security in Calais as thousands live in squalid conditions waiting to cross into Britain.

20/08/2015

Greece

Where does Greece's debt come from? Part 1/3: the Greek source

19/08/2015

Greece

Where does the Greek debt come from? Part 2/3: European roots

Greece’s debt has been a concern for the European Union since 2009. Little by little, attention was drawn away from the first countries within the euro zone to have austerity measures imposed – Ireland, Spain and Portugal – and eventually, the focus came to rest on Greece. But where does its debt co

19/08/2015

World News

Calais migrant deadlock prompts new talks

The number of migrants at the EU's borders has reached record levels as more and more seek irregular routes into Europe

19/08/2015

Greece

EU faces worst refugee crisis since Second World War - Migration Commissioner

The EU is set to release aid to Greece to help manage the increasing number of migrants arriving on its shores.

14/08/2015

Greece

Kos: Greece sends cruise ship to help manage migrant numbers

A cruise ship arrives to take the pressure of Kos as the Greek island struggle with the increasing number of migrant arrivals.

14/08/2015

Republic of North Macedonia

Balkan route now 'busiest irregular passage to EU' for migrants

Migrants in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) have been seen surging onto a railway line in the southern town of Gevgelia, desperate

14/08/2015

Germany

Germany gets tough on Balkan migration

Germany is stepping up pressure on would-be immigrants from the Balkans. Authorities have released a video aimed at convincing them to stay at home

10/08/2015

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: NATO supports Turkish airstrikes on militants in Syria and Iraq

In this edition of Europe Weekly, NATO supports Turkish airstrikes on militants in Syria and Iraq but asks Ankara not to abandon the Kurdish peace

31/07/2015

My Europe Series

What can I take with me when I travel within the EU?

This week on UTalk, a question from Mary in Dublin: “I will be travelling to several EU countries this summer. I was wondering if I am I allowed to

31/07/2015

Germany

"Arrivo Berlin" - a project in Berlin training migrants to prepare for work

A common political policy has been hammered out between UK Home Secretary Theresa May and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in a bid to end

29/07/2015

Iran

French Foreign Minister latest in line of dignitaries to visit Iran

Striking the nuclear accord may have been the easy part… On the first visit in 12 years of a French foreign minister to Iran, Laurent Fabius sought

29/07/2015

Saudi Arabia

EU foreign policy chief tries to reassure Mideast allies over Iran deal

Federica Mogherini has held talks in Saudi Arabia, before heading off to Iran

28/07/2015

Italy

1,200 Migrants arrive in Sicily rescued in the Mediterranean

More than 1,200 migrants arrived in Sicily as Eritrea called for a UN probe in people trafficking.

25/07/2015

Europe News

Juncker's plan to boost EU investment

The European Commission has finalised an investment plan aimed at kick-starting economic investment across the European Union. Wednesday’s (July 22)

22/07/2015

World News

EU ministers postpone decision on migrant allocation

EU interior ministers have failed to agree on how to redistribute 40,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. Instead they’ve decided to

21/07/2015