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Euroviews. Migration: how Europe can reconcile democracy and mobility | View

Only once we are clear on principles can we build shared policies on asylum and migration.

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Europe's Dublin dilemma

Finland

Asylum seekers enter Finland from Russia using World Cup IDs: border guard

Five people have entered Finland illegally with the help of soccer World Cup fan identity papers and then applied for asylum.

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Several EU leaders to meet this Sunday to find a solution to migration crisis

A flurry of diplomatic activity in recent days has resulted in the announcement of an emergency "informal meeting" on migration ahead of the European Council Summit later this month. Leaders of countries on the front line of Europe's migration crisis will be participating.

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EU considering "disembarkation platforms" in North Africa

A draft paper leaked in advance of this month's EU summit reveals that European leaders will consider plans to establish "disembarkation platforms" in North Africa in order to process asylum applications before migrants reach Europe.

World News

Euroviews. What crisis? Political panic over migration helps no one | View

The diplomatic quarrel over the Aquarius migrant ship is the latest battle in a war of words in which men, women and children are being held hostage to politicking.

Germany

Merkel's call for EU unity on migration hits snag over internal feud

The German chancellor is at loggerheads with her government’s interior minister over European asylum policy.

Romania

The Romanian who is seeking asylum in Africa

He's not your typical asylum seeker, but Radu Mazare says he is simply trying to escape political persecution in his home country of Romania.

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As it happened this morning, Tuesday, May 22

Take a look at our latest updates to see how the news unfolded this morning.

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Small groups from caravan of asylum seekers cross to US

A group of women and children passed through to the US side of the border with Mexico on Wednesday, part of the caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States

United Kingdom

ECJ ruling boosts Europe's 'most vulnerable migrants'

Europe’s most vulnerable migrants were boosted by a ruling that gives greater protection to those who have been tortured, according to an expert.

World News

EU granted 500,000 people asylum protection in 2017

EU member states as well as Norway, Iceland and Switzerland granted protection status to 538,000 asylum seekers in 2017, according to new data released by Eurostat on Thursday.

Germany

10,000 refugees from Middle East, North Africa to resettle in Germany

Around 10,000 refugees from North Africa and the Middle East will be allowed into Germany from Greece, the European Commission has confirmed.

Germany

Life sentence for student murder in Germany

The asylum seeker claims to be from Afghanistan and the murder of the 19 year old in 2016 at Freiburg fueled a backlash against a mass migration

World News

Euroviews. EU-Turkey deal, a symbol of a short-sighted asylum policy | View

"Fear is a constant," says a Syrian woman living in a camp on the Greek islands, where thousands of asylum seekers remain stuck because of a deal the EU struck with Turkey two years ago, according to Amnesty International.

Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Refugee row

Prague is facing an EU legal suit for refusing to accept asylum seekers under the bloc's system to relieve other member states hit most by immigration

Hungary

Hungary’s foreign minister calls his Luxembourg counterpart "an idiot"

Hungary’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto has hit back at Jean Asselborn’s claims that Viktor Orban was a “dictator”.

Finland

Finland turns away asylum seeker — who gets killed upon return to Iraq

Ali's daughter, Noor, is adamant her father was killed by the same people who had made him seek refuge in Finland in 2015.

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"It was so cold, it felt like an arrow through my heart"

A Turkish asylum-seeker describes the moment the flimsy vessel carrying him and others capsized while crossing the Evros River to Greece.

Sweden

Pussy Riot members say Swedish exile is price of opposing Putin

The two members were beaten and detained in Russia after criticizing Putin — and have since fled the country to claim asylum in Sweden.