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The Brief from Brussels: Brexit talks to start on June 19?

This is the Brief from Brussels, a daily roundup of the top stories from Europe’s de facto political capital.

Italy

Italy’s vaccine sceptics to ‘apply for asylum in Austria’

Norway

“I fight for my son”: A 360 degree portrait of a Romanian street worker

Every day at 5 am Florian-Petrus Cretu gets up to sell Folk er Folk, a street magazine, in the streets of Oslo.

World News

Campaign in support of 'limbo' refugees

The #sickofwaiting says refugees have limited food, shelter and medical supplies

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Hundreds protest at Texas legislature's move to ban sanctuary cities

Texas is attempting to rid the state of cities offering immigrants sanctuary, but hundreds have gathered in Austin to protest.

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Dozens of toddlers feared dead after boat capsizes

Thirty-one migrants, many of them toddlers, drowned after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya.

Europe News

Migrant weary EU promises to change relations with Africa

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc is changing its attitude towards Africa after the massive increases in migration in the past few years.

Belgium

Africa on Brussels agenda amid rising migration from Libya to Europe

European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday are focusing on events in Africa as part of a general discussion this week on the bloc’s defence and security…

Morocco

Migrants storm border fence in Spanish enclave Melilla,

Some 300 sub-Saharan African migrants stormed the razor-wire fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Tuesday.

Netherlands

Euroviews. Immigrant integration in Amsterdam. Tesfalem's story.

An opinion piece from Amsterdam's Mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, on the city's pioneering integration of immigrants

Italy

Shipwrecks spark rise in migrant death toll

Nearly 250 migrants are missing or feared dead after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

France

Police clear 1,600 migrants from Paris tent camp

Police cleared a makeshift migrant camp in Paris early on Tuesday, in which more than 1,600 people had been living in squalid conditions for weeks.

Italy

Italy: More than 200 migrants feared drowned this weekend

More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean over the weekend trying to reach European shores, according to testimony from survivors.

World News

"Calais mon amour": how a National Front supporter fell in love with a migrant

The improbable story of how a French National Front supporter fell in love with an immigrant

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Europe stands with refugees - do you?

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Rescue at sea

Rescuers picked up 560 migrants from unsafe boats off the coast of Libya on Thursday (May 4), including the body of a young man who the migrants said had been shot by smugglers on the beach for his ba

France

Five charts to explain France's presidential election

France will choose its new president on Sunday, either centrist Emmanuel Macron or far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

Hungary

No nationality: Europe is urged to stop locking up the stateless

With an estimated ten million people worldwide thought to be stateless, Europe is being urged to end arbitrary detentions and protect those with nowhere to call…

World News

New identities are evolving within our society - that is normal

The current social and political debates over migration have brought to the fore questions about cultural diversity and the coexistence of different cultural identities in…

USA

Judge blocks 'sanctuary' cities executive order, in immigration blow to Trump

A US judge has blocked an executive order that seeks to withhold funds from so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ – areas where local policies have been put in place to protect undocumented…