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Slovakia set for EU presidency

Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico is back at work after a heart scare.

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700 may have perished in the Mediterranean last week - UNHCR

Hundreds feared lost after three boats sink off the coast of Libya, the situation is described as "chaotic".

Turkey

Germany's Merkel tells Turkey to meet all terms for visa-free travel

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Turkey it must fulfill all the conditions set by the EU before its citizens get visa free travel to the…

Austria

Austria on a far-right path

Austria’s presidential election second-round runoff takes place on Sunday (May 22).

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Greece

Clashes in Idomeni as migrant frustration boils over

There have been more violent clashes over night between police and migrants in the tent city that has been created on Greece’s northern border with the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

Italy

Tough sentences demanded for suspected people smugglers

Prosecutors in Sicily have demanded an 18-year jail sentence for a man accused of captaining an overloaded migrant boat that sank in April. Up to 800

Germany

Germany moves to speed up deportation of failed North African asylum seekers

Germany is set to make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers to North Africa. Its lower house of parliament has approved a draft law declaring

Italy

Dozens of migrants missing as Italy responds to shipwreck off Libya

Twenty-six migrants have been rescued by an Italian cargo ship off the coast of Libya, but dozens more are said to be missing. Video footage released

Greece

Refugees refuse to budge from makeshift Idomeni border camp in Greece

Greek authorities are urging refugees to leave a makeshift Idomeni camp close to the border with the FYR of Macedonia border to move to official reception centres elsewhere is the country.

Papua New Guinea

Australian offshore detention of asylum seekers 'illegal' rules court

Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled that Australia’s practice of detaining asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal and must stop. Under

Italy

Up to 500 migrants may have drowned in Mediterranean - UNHCR

More than two hundred migrants arriving into the Sicilian port of Augusta on Thursday. They were picked up at sea by a joint Italian and Greek

World

Music and maths to show solidarity with refugees who arrive in Europe

Europe is more than ever divided with how it reacts to the refugee crisis. Television channels across Europe have reported on the fences which have

My Europe Series

The lucrative business of migration

Criminals based in Turkey have picked up an unexpected windfall with the arrival in the country of hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees and

My Europe Series

Boom times for Turkey's lucrative smuggling rings

Criminals based in Turkey have reaped huge profits from the human windfall of hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees and migrants that have flooded into the country. A lucrative business has spru

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Return of the migrants

Turkey receives the first group of migrants rejected from Greece on Monday under a landmark EU deal aimed at stopping the huge influx of migrants

Greece

Migrant flow to Greece continues despite returns to Turkey

Day and night, migrants continue to land in Greece, despite the start of deportations to Turkey under an EU deal aimed at stemming the flow

Turkey

Deported migrants are sent to holding centre in Turkey

The first migrants deported from Greek islands back to Turkey under a controversial deal with the EU have now been sent to a holding centre in

Greece

First EU migrant deportations from Greece to Turkey 'go smoothly', despite protests

The scene played out at dawn on the island of Lesbos was orderly in contrast to those witnessed on Greek shores in recent months. Two

Greece

Migrants arrive in Turkey after being sent back under EU deal

Migrants sent back from Greece began arriving in Turkey on Monday after the EU’s disputed deal with Ankara to stem the influx of asylum seekers into

Greece

Greek parliament to vote on EU-Turkey migrant accord

The Greek parliament is expected to vote on Friday on measures putting into practice the EU’s accord with Turkey on the return of refugees and