Now playing Next world news The most striking images from this week's top stories The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world. 05/06/2021
Now playing Next world news EU alarmed by Greece's use of sound cannons at border Greece is facing questions over its reported use of sound cannons at the border to deter asylum seekers seeking to enter the country. 03/06/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom UK housing asylum seekers at former military barracks ruled unlawful A British court has ruled that the Home Office's decision to house asylum seekers and migrants in "squalid" barracks in Folkestone, Kent, was unlawful. 03/06/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom More than 1,500 asylum seekers in UK considered for removal to Europe New statistics from the UK's Home Office show that more than 1,500 people seeking asylum in the UK have been warned they could be removed to "safe third countries". 27/05/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom Parliamentarians slam detention of EU citizens by UK Border Force Around 30 EU citizens including Greek, Italian, Bulgarian and Spanish nationals are thought to have been detained in the UK in the past week due to confusion over visa requirements. 14/05/2021
Now playing Next Slovenia Estonia, Lithuania and Poland help migrant patrols at Slovenia border Officers from Estonia, Lithuania and Poland will be deployed to the Slovenia-Croatia border. 07/05/2021
Now playing Next Italy Rescue groups and Pope decry inaction as 130 migrants die at sea A rubber dinghy carrying 130 people capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, with all those onboard thought to have drowned, after pleading for assistance the day before. 25/04/2021
Now playing Next Netherlands Seven injured in stabbing at Dutch asylum-seekers centre A suspect has been arrested after seven people were injured in a stabbing incident at an asylum-seekers centre in the Netherlands. 22/04/2021
Now playing Next Serbia Afghan refugee speaks out on landmark Serbia border police case In December 2020 Serbia's Constitutional Court ruled that border control officers had violated the rights of 17 Afghan refugees they abandoned in a forest in freezing cold temperatures near the Bulgarian border. 18/04/2021
Now playing Next Greece New migrant camp approved for Lesbos but exact location undecided The municipal council of Mytilene approved the construction of a new 3,000-capacity facility on the Aegean island - but without agreeing where it will be located. 13/04/2021
Now playing Next Spain Migrants stuck in Spain's Canary Islands say camps are unfit More than 23,000 people from Morocco and West Africa arrived on the resort archipelago in the past year as authorities cracked down on previously popular routes on the Mediterranean. 25/03/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom UK asylum overhaul seeks to restrict Channel migrants' claim rights Home Secretary Priti Patel's plan to make it harder for people entering the UK by unauthorised routes to claim asylum has been branded 'inhumane' by the Red Cross. 24/03/2021
Now playing Next Sweden Egyptians rejected asylum in Sweden and fearing persecution back home A number of Egyptian asylum seekers - some facing life imprisonment in Egypt - are making a last-ditch attempt to avoid deportation following decisions made by Sweden’s asylum agency. 02/03/2021
Now playing Next France Asylum seeker arrested after refugee centre manager stabbed to death A 38-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker has been arrested. 19/02/2021
Now playing Next Denmark Denmark’s ex-immigraton minister set to face impeachment trial Inger Støjberg issued an order in 2016 to separate asylum-seeking couples where one of the pair was under the age of 18. 14/01/2021
Now playing Next Denmark Former minister 'misled' Danish parliament over 'illegal' asylum order Former immigration minister Inger Støjberg has defended her actions as an attempt to rescue child brides from forced marriages with older husbands. 15/12/2020
Now playing Next Ireland Asylum seekers ‘excluded from financial system’ by banks in Ireland Many times banks ask for a passport before allowing someone to open an account, but often asylum seekers won’t have a passport, and if they do have one then the government will likely take it while they are looking at their claim for asylum. 29/11/2020
Now playing Next Europe News Brussels wants to better integrate migrants. But how will they do it? The European Commission (EC) says that around 34 million people living in the EU were born outside the bloc and that everyone has the right to "realise their full potential". 24/11/2020
Now playing Next Europe News EU's new migration pact under spotlight as interior ministers meet The EU's new migration proposal was discussed for the first time by the bloc's interior ministers today, beginning what is likely to be a long and uncertain process. 08/10/2020
Now playing Next Europe News EU's new migrant returns policy could cause problems: legal expert A Senior Legal Advisor to the International Commission of Jurists says that the Commission's new migration pact and the returns policy within it, is at risk of creating more problems because of Member States' international law commitments. 02/10/2020
