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Austria, Slovenia mull fences to curb refugee inflow

As the refugee crisis shows no sign of abating, more EU countries threaten to shut their borders, dealing a blow to the EU's passport-free Schengen zone.

Hungary

Migrants on Slovenia-Austria border 'being overcharged for basic supplies'

“We’re waiting here at the border for many hours, and the Slovenian people are selling pizzas…” These are the words of one among some 2,000 migrants

World News

Slovenia sends migrants on trains to Austria as its own refugee camps are full

The sight of migrants trudging across Slovenian fields on foot is to end soon. Because the camps are over flowing, from now on the government is

World News

Europe toughens its stance in bid to slow migration surge

Austria has announced plans to build what it calls ‘technical barriers’ on its border with Slovenia to help control the flow of thousands of migrants

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MEPs seek answers on car emissions scandal

EU officials may have known about the Volkswagen emissions scandal years before it came to light. The Financial Times newspaper published an exchange

Economy

EU ends mobile roaming charges from 2017

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to give the green light to plans to ban mobile phone operators from imposing roaming surcharges from mid-2017.

Europe News

Kosovo takes step towards joining European Union

Kosovo has signed a trade and investment pact with the EU, which is the first step on Pristina’s long road to possible full membership of the bloc

Europe News

MEPs want tougher tax rules

MEPs say EU governments should do more to improve corporate tax transparency in Europe. They want member states to sign up to a mandatory EU-wide

World News

Balkans struggle with migrant crisis as winter looms

EU and Balkan leaders may have agreed a new plan at the weekend to tackle the refugee crisis but in the meantime the steady flow of migrants

World

Interview with Didier Billion (IRIS)about Turkey's future in Europe

Give and take. After months of blocking Turkey’s negotiations to join the European Union and the growing migration crisis, German Chancellor Angela

Slovenia

EU stiffens border controls but human bottlenecks shiver in the cold and rain

Twenty-four hours after the EU’s special central and eastern European member states’ summit on the refugee crisis and there are already signs that

Europe News

MEPs react to EU-Balkans summit

At the start of yet another meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs were far from optimistic after Sunday’s EU-Balkans summit. That

World News

EU agrees on thousands of extra refugee places on Balkan migration route

European Union leaders have agreed to provide another 100,000 spaces in refugee welcome centres along the route from Greece towards Germany. It’s

Greece

Zoe Konstantopoulou: "The greek debt is illegal and should not be paid"

On 6 February 2015, after SYRIZA’s victory in the January 2015 election, she was elected as the youngest Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament with 235

World News

Broadbit wins EU/Euronews Innovation Radar award

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How to complain about energy prices

Patrick from London asked: “I have received an extremely high energy bill for last month. I suppose that my energy supplier has raised their prices

Poland

Polish right would tip EU centre of gravity eastward

Beata Szydlo (pronounced ‘shédwa’) of Poland’s right-wing Eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS), at 52 could lead a new nationalist-driven

World News

Migrants: the EU calls an emergency summit to tackle the Balkan bottleneck

Thousands head across the fields from Berkasovo-Bapska Around 3,500 refugees and migrants have spent the night camped out in the open at the

Turkey

Germany offers Turkey concessions package to get support in refugee crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a visit to key ally Turkey on Sunday, meeting with both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Prime Minister

Germany

Germans rally to support mayoral candidate stabbed in 'anti-refugee attack'

Germans took to the streets of Cologne on Saturday in solidarity with Henriette Reker, the mayoral candidate.for the city who was stabbed and

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