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Euroviews. Thanksgiving honors refugees who made a new home in America. Trump's policies do the opposite ǀ View

Instead of welcoming asylum seekers with open arms, the president has posited that our country is full. He couldn't be more wrong.

Europe News

The Brief: MEPs' choice: politicians rate incoming European Commission's priorities

In Strasbourg, MEPs voiced their opinions on what they believed to be the most important priority of the incoming Commission.

United Kingdom

Are Boris Johnson’s Tories being fair to future EU migrants?

People moving to the UK from EU countries after Brexit face tighter rules and will have to "wait like everybody else" for benefits, under Conservative Party plans.

Spain

Meet the communist town in Spain that switched to the far-right

Totana became the only municipality ruled by the communist United Left party to vote massively for the far-right Vox party.

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World News

EU's rights agency warns of 'lost generation' of young refugees

Europe is at risk of creating a "lost generation" of young refugees, who aren't properly integrated into their host countries, the EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights warns.

Europe News

The Brief: Von der Leyen changes controversial portfolio

After receiving criticism for the Protecting our European way of life portfolio, the president-elect has changed the title less than one month before she is due to take office.

Germany

Hannover elects first German mayor of Turkish origin

The German city of Hannover became the first regional capital and the first city in the country to elect a mayor of Turkish origin on Sunday, in a powerful symbol for German citizens of Turkish immigration descent.

Europe News

New walls in Europe - a big business

The Berlin Wall fell, but, especially since 2015, many different kinds of walls are constructed in EU to keep refugees and migrants out of Europe, and it's turning a profit.

Ireland

Euroviews. I’m not British. I was born Irish. It’s simply who I am and no court will tell me otherwise ǀ View

The people of Northern Ireland remain British citizens even if they identify as Irish, according to a court ruling in the United Kingdom last month. It’s a startling decision that strikes at the foundations of Northern Ireland’s peace process and creates a divide between the two main communities.

Libya

EU funds Libyan Coast Guard but who is monitoring them?

While the military mission called Eunavfor Med - Operation Sophia (ENFM) is in charge of training and evaluating LCG, its staff is not permitted to set foot in the country due to security conditions.

Belgium

Migrants found alive in Belgium truck a week on from Essex tragedy

A dozen migrants were found alive in a truck in Belgium on Wednesday — a week after 39 were found dead near London.

United Kingdom

Police arrest two more after 39 Chinese nationals found in lorry

39 people were pronounced dead at the scene. Early indications suggest 38 are adults and one aged in their teens.

World

Australia's tough immigration stance 'keeps far-right at bay'

Australia's tough stance on immigration has helped keep down the vote for far-right political parties, the country's ambassador to France has told Euronews.

USA

Euroviews. There is still hope for the future. The “American Dream” remains a beautiful ideal ǀ View

For me, the “Great American Dream” is not some ugly tortured vision of broken promises, facades and unfulfilled dreaming, but something that glitters at the heart of what it is to be American: hopeful, ambitious and a dreamer.

Greece

Lebanese man mistakenly identified as 1985 plane hijacking suspect

A Lebanese man who was detained for five days in Greece for his involvement in a 1985 plane hijacking has been released after authorities concluded they had the wrong person, AFP cited police as saying.

Germany

German generosity to migrants highlighted in report

Among some of the world's richest countries, Germany is one of the most generous when it comes to granting permanent residency to migrants.

Business

OECD: Humanitarian migration falls while labour and family migration rises

Europe had a decrease in the number of asylum applications by 10% in 2018. Family migration, where people migrate with, or to join, family members, increased by 9% and labour migration by 6%.

United Kingdom

New data in post-Brexit EU settlement scheme worry campaign group

Campaigners have expressed concern about the numbers EU27 nationals being given temporary — rather than permanent — permission to live in the UK post-Brexit.

World News

A majority of people across the world agree that society is 'broken'

A majority of people across the world agreed with statements that society is broken and the economy rigged to favour the rich and powerful, according to a new Ipsos MORI survey.

Belgium

Commissioner for 'European way of life' attracts criticism from MEPs

The nomination of a commissioner to "protect the European way of life" has been criticised for the inclusion of migration in the role's brief