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#SickOfWaiting challenges Europe to fulfill refugee promises

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EU opens legal case against three countries over migration quotas

The EU has launched a legal case against Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland over their tough stance on taking in asylum seekers.

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Migrants rescue off Libya coast

German NGO Sea-Watch recorded the rescue operation

Germany

Brexit boom as number of Brits given German citizenship soars

A record 2,865 British citizens were naturalised in Germany in 2016, up from just 622 the previous year.

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USA

New setback for Trump travel ban

A US federal appeals court found Donald Trump's travel ban violated immigration law and lacked justification.

Europe News

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.

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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?