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Italy

1,500 people rescued amid latest migrant tragedy in Mediterranean Sea

Nearly 1,500 people were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and European Navy ships on Thursday. Two rubber dinghies packed with 269 people were

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: migrant crisis spins out of control

Europe News

Austria tops the migrant league

A migrant reception centre in Traiskirchen, Austria is now housing 4,300 asylum seekers, despite its official capacity of 2,300. It is symptomatic of

My Europe Series

Can walls stop migrants from reaching Europe?

This week on Utalk, a question from Laura in Lyon, France: “To prevent the influx of migrants, countries like Hungary are erecting walls. Is this

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Hungary

Hungary: Razor wire fence fails to halt migrant and refugee influx into EU

A relentless flow of desperate migrants continued to cross into Hungary on Friday morning, crawling underneath a razor wire fence on the border with

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

'It's called the route of death': up to 200 migrants feared dead off Libyan coast

Hundreds of migrants are feared perished as shocking images show a tragic end to what is being labelled the 'route of death.'

Libya

Hundreds feared dead as migrant boats capsize off Libyan coast

Reports suggest hundreds are feared dead after two boats capsized off the Libyan coast. Local residents and officials say one boat had up to 50

Austria

Migrants: Vienna summit given added impetus

The discovery of a lorry containing the corpses of dead refugees on an Austrian motorway gave added impetus to a key summit on migration in Vienna

World News

Welcome to Europe: The Long Journey, part 5

In part five of euronews’ special reports, James Franey travels to the Serbia-Hungary border, where a fence is being built in an attempt to deter the

Austria

More than 70 suspected immigrants dead in Austria truck

More than 70 bodies have been recovered from a lorry found abandoned near the border with Hungary, officials have said. The refrigerated, air-tight

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

Hungary

Record numbers of migrants arriving in Europe

Records have again been broken for the number of migrants flooding into Europe. In Serbia more than 3,200 arrived from the Former Yugoslav Republic

Austria

Austria: dozens of migrants die locked in an air-tight truck

Police examining a lorry abandoned in the lay-by of a motorway in Austria have made a grim discovery. The bodies of at least 20 immigrants have been

World News

Migrants: Hungary to reinforce border with Serbia

Record numbers of migrants are crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary. They are adamant their ultimate destination is Germany. Budapest is

World News

Another tragedy on the Mediterranean - dozens of bodies found on a migrant ship

Dozens of bodies are found in the packed hold of a migrant boat as round-the-clock rescue missions in the Mediterranean save another 3,000 in just 24 hours.

Serbia

Young Syrian refugees hope for a better future in Germany: The long journey, part 4

Euronews correspondent James Franey travelled with a group of Syrian refugees on a train journey inside the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. To

Germany

Merkel says Germany won't tolerate xenophobia and will help refugees

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday visited a newly opened refugee shelter in the eastern town of Heidenau, where violent anti-refugee protests erupted at the weekend.

Hungary

Trouble on Hungary's border escalates as migrants fight tear gas to beat fence

As fast as Hungary plugs its frontier with Serbia with a steel wall, refugees are arriving at its weak points before it becomes unassailable to get