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French PM Valls urges EU solidarity amid unprecedented migrant crisis

EU nations must stand together in tackling the migrant crisis and provide a safe haven for those fleeing war and oppression. That was the message

France

Migrant Crisis Live: Calais news conference by French ministers and senior EU officials

Migrant Crisis Live: Calais news conference by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and senior EU officials.

World News

Hungary summons French ambassador over border fence row

Hungary’s foreign minister has summoned the French ambassador after the French foreign minister’s criticism of Hungary’s so-called anti-migrant

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Hungary

Fortress Hungary: The Long Journey Part 6

Hungary is exacerbating the problem of people-smuggling with its barrier aimed at preventing the flow of migrants and refugees into the country, the

Germany

Berlin processing asylum seekers with difficulty

Central Berlin has been transformed by a crush of asylum seekers since the start of August, in a heatwave. Berlin expects 45,000 asylum arrivals by

Europe News

Record number of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean

The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe this year has been more than 300,00 – up from 219,000 for the whole of 2014

Germany

Migration: Merkel holds off on emergency EU summit

Angela Merkel has held off on calling an emergency EU summit on migration. The issue was top of the agenda during talks with Danish Prime Minister

World

Top EU migration official insists policy revision imperative

With Europe facing a migration crisis, we talk to Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greece’s European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship

World

Germany wants camps in Italy, Greece, Turkey to sort through migrants seeking asylum

Germany's Interior Minister says the EU could fund a large refugee camp in Turkey that would sort through migrants and decide who can seek asylum in Europe. He warns Germany will turn away asylum seek

Germany

Exclusive: EU should create immigrant processing centre in Turkey, says German minister

The European Union should set up a refugee camp in Turkey where immigration requests could be processed, Germany’s interior minister has said. In an

Austria

Arrests made over Austria migrant lorry tragedy

Authorities have confirmed that arrests have been made in connection to the lorry tragedy.

Austria

EU leaders discuss migrant crisis in western Balkan summit

EU leaders are gathering in the Austrian capital Vienna to discuss how to deal with the influx of migrants to the region. About 100,000 people, many

Italy

Migrants: scuffles with police as hundreds march in Milan

Hundreds of migrants marched down the main Fulvio Testi road, one of the major arteries leading into Italy’s financial capital, Milan. #news

Germany

German vice-chancellor condemns weekend violence in Heidenau

As Europe struggles to cope with an influx of migrants, Germany’s vice chancellor has condemned recent violence outside in the Heidenau over the

Serbia

Thousands of desperate migrants en route to the EU since Saturday

Thousands of migrants have made their way through no man’s land from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia into Serbia. Most have fled conflict

World News

'They just look and take photos': The Long Journey, part 2

For the second time in two days, the ferry ‘Venizelos’ docks in Piraeus port, Athens, carrying some 2,000 migrants from the island of Lesbos, most of

Greece

They arrive by their hundreds: The Long Journey, part 1

Jubilant upon arrival, hundreds of migrants per day reach the Greek island of Lesbos and, more importantly for many, the European Union. Traffickers

France

Calais struggles with its migrant hotspot status

With their eyes on the UK, Calais in France is the last stop on a long journey migrants hope will end on the other side of the Channel. In 1999 the

Republic of North Macedonia

FYROM: Macedonia declares state-of-emergency

A state of emergency has been declared in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), as crowds of migrants continue to gather on its southern