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Europe’s demographic time bomb

Interview with Monika Queisser, Head of Social Policy with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

World News

New video footage: overcrowded migrant boat capsizing

New video footage shows an overcrowded fishing boat capsizing off the Libyan coast sending migrants tumbling into the sea.

Greece

Greek police clear Idomeni camp

Greek police have completed the clearance of the Idomeni camp and many residents have been moved to official refugee centres near Thessaloniki, while others set up new camps nearby.

Libya

Dozens of migrants feared drowned in latest Mediterranean tragedy

Up to 30 people are feared drowned in the second migrant tragedy in as many days in the Mediterranean.

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Economy

High UK migration totals feed into Brexit debate

Newly released figures show net migration to Britain reached the second highest level on record last year feeding into the debate over whether the UK should stay in the European Union.

World News

Powerful Eye Contact Project Aims to Break Down Barriers With Refugees

“Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

World News

Migrant rescue from capsized boat is caught on camera

The capsizing of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea has been caught on camera by the Italian Navy.

Germany

Germany's carrot and stick approach to refugee integration

German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented her government’s new refugee integration law on Wednesday after a coalition summit in Meseberg in eastern…

Italy

Overcrowded fishing boat capsizes off Italian coast, 500 migrants rescued

The Italian navy has released distressing images of an overcrowded fishing boat capsizing off the Libyan coast sending hundreds of migrants tumbling into the…

World News

IOM says fewer migrants dying on Mediterranean route to Europe

“If we fail at this, we fail at everything” Chief of the International Organization for Migration William Lacy Swing said at the World Humanitarian Summit in…

Turkey

World Humanitarian Summit calls for shift of emphasis from response to prevention of refugee crisis

Turkey has been much of the focus of the refugee crisis and now at the first World Humanitarian Summit the two day programme is hoping the talking and discussion will lead to priority action

Greece

Idomeni: Greece says operation to clear camp going smoothly

An operation to clear Europe’s biggest makeshift refugee camp is progressing without problems, Greek officials say.

World News

Greece begins evacuation of Idomeni refugee camp

Greek authorities on Tuesday began a dawn operation to gradually evacuate the country’s largest informal refugee camp at Idomeni on the Macedonian…

My Europe Series

In pursuit of the American dream

Euronews travels to Arizona and Texas to find out how successive waves of migrants have fared.

My Europe Series

Which US city welcomes the most refugees?

Euronews travels to the Lone Star State to find out how even there, the story of immigration has not run smoothly.

My Europe Series

Immigration: how do the US and EU compare?

Amid election talk of legislative reform on both sides of the Atlantic, is immigration becoming a political football?

My Europe Series

American dream? The reality of starting a new life stateside

Alma Telibecirevic, from Sarajevo, is looking to live the American dream.

Syria

People smuggling worth up to $6 billion last year: Interpol

Libya

Libya coast guard rescues more than 100 migrants from Africa

Libya’s coast guard said it intercepted a dinghy carrying more than 100 African migrants on Monday (May 16). Matza Samwe, a migrant from Nigeria

World News

EU slammed for 'lack of vision' in migrant crisis response

The EU is facing further criticism over its handling of the migrant crisis. The UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, is reported to