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Migrants: Hungary seals border with Serbia

Hungarian police have sealed the main and remaining crossing point used by refugees and migrants coming over its southern border from Serbia. Record

Europe News

Migration crisis: EU Interior Ministers try to settle quota row

Meeting in emergency session on Monday to discuss Europe’s migration crisis, EU interior ministers are on collision course over proposals to

World News

Migrants: EU approves initial plan to tackle traffickers at sea

The EU’s crackdown on people smugglers operating out of Libya is preparing to step up a gear. Member states have approved initial plans to begin

World News

Schengen: 1985 pact under increasing strain

The original agreement to allow unhampered movement was signed near Schengen, a small town in Luxembourg, on 14th June, 1985. European Economic

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World News

True or false? Six controversial claims on the EU migrant crisis

Europe’s unprecedented migrant crisis has stirred controversy and polarised opinion. The key dispute is over whether the majority of arrivals are

Hungary

'Shame on you Orbán' protest hits Budapest

Thousands have taken to the streets of the Hungarian capital to demonstrate against the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The crowd marched across

World

Refugee surge was only a matter of time

A surge of terrified civilians one day, now none. Mine fields along a border will do that. The Syrian civil war has cut off the towns of Jarabulus

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: Juncker urges more action on refugees

In this week’s edition of Europe Weekly: Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his first-ever State of the Union speech with a call for EU member states to

Cinema

'Mediterranea': poignant drama about African migrants

This week in Cinema Box, we were deeply moved by Italian director Jonas Carpignano’s ‘Mediterranea’, a tragically topical drama about African

World

New life, new challenges: helping refugees adjust to unfamiliar surroundings

For refugees arriving at a new country it may be the end of a long and painful journey, but the transition to life in their new home, temporary or

Hungary

Volunteers left to clean up rubbish at refugee centres in Budapest

Greece

Greeks evacuate refugees from Lesbos as island overflows

The emergency evacuation of refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos has begun after the island, normal population 4,000, was overrun with between 15

Germany

Germany to spend six billion euros on refugees

Germany has announced a series of measures and six billion euros of funding to deal with the refugee crisis that is being described as

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU calls for urgent summit to tackle migrant crisis

In this week’s Europe Weekly, we look at the worsening migrant crisis. Hungary was in the eye of the storm as nearly 3,000 people were forced to

World

Road to EU refuge strewn with thorns

After arriving in Greece, then passing through the non-EU Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, refugees once more reaching European

Hungary

Bicske: Hundreds refusing to leave migrant train

500 people are refusing to get off a train in Bicske, a small Hungarian town 40 kilometres west of Budapest, according to agency reports. A tense

Turkey

Father of Syrian boy washed up on Turkish beach recalls boat horror

The images of the tiny body of a Syrian boy, washed up on a beach in Turkey, have shocked the world. Aylan Kurdi was just three-years-old. His

Turkey

Turkey calls on nations to be more sensitive to the refugee crisis

The Turkish president has called on developed nations to be more sensitive to the refugee crisis. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking after a

Czech Republic

Czech police marking refugees directly on their skin

Officials in the Czech Republic are facing an outcry from human rights activists over their police writing on refugees’ arms. The refugees were

Europe News

EU readies fresh refugee proposal

Nearly three months after EU leaders failed to agree on how to resettle 40,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in Italy and Greece, officials in