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Greece

Greek PM tightens migrant controls: 'We are not an unfenced vineyard'

Greece is to create a single border surveillance agency and employ 1,200 more guards to 'shut the door' on migrants not entitled to stay.

World

Greek migrant plan won't end 'inhumane' conditions — aid group

Medecins Sans Frontieres says plans by Greece for new migrant facilities amount to the creation of detention centres.

Greece

Greece to replace crowded refugee camps with closed detention centres

The 3,000-person-capacity Moria camp, currently home to 15,000 migrants, is among those earmarked for closure and conversion into a detention centre.

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.

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Spain

On board Aita Mari, the migrant rescue ship defying Spain

The NGO faces a fine of up to €901,000.

Greece

Baby dies in Moria migrant camp, MSF reveals

"We are absolutely devastated by this tragedy," MSF wrote on Twitter.

Turkey

Turkey stops truck carrying 82 migrants bound for Europe

Turkey seized 82 migrants in the coastal town of Ayvacik on Monday after finding them in back of a truck.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Aid workers fear winter 'catastrophe' at Bosnia migrant camp

Hundreds of migrants are living in a freezing camp near the Croatian border with almost no food, water, and no electricity.

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.

Greece

'A struggle for survival': Greece told to act on migrant camps

The Council of Europe has slammed Greece for the conditions migrants are living under on the Aegean islands, with the Commissioner for Human Rights saying people are now in a “struggle for survival”.

Greece

Syrian boy dies after migrant dinghy collides with coastguard boat

The incident took place in the night of Tuesday and Wednesday near Kos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey.

Italy

More than a dozen dead after migrant boat sinks in the Mediterranean

More than a dozen people have died after a crowded boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean late on Sunday.

Libya

UNHCR in Libya Part 4: The detention centres - the map and the stories

In February 2019, the Libyan government revealed that there were 23 detention centres operating in Libya, holding over 5,000 asylum seekers. While they are officially run by the government, in reality it is Libya’s complex patchwork of militias that are in control.

Libya

UNHCR in Libya Part 3: Former staffer blows whistle on favouritism

Euronews has been able to speak under the condition of anonymity with a former Libyan UNHCR staffer who has been working in Tripoli.

Libya

Migrants in detention centres ask: 'Why does UNHCR keep us in prison?'

The UN agency has been accused of being a “fig leaf” for the policy of externalisation of EU borders; critics argue that UNHCR action is Libya is uneffective. We asked migrants held in detention centres their opinion.

Libya

Who are the UNHCR really working to help - refugees or states?

Euronews has undertaken an investigation into the UNHCR's operation in Libya, where tens of thousands of migrants live in detainment camps, hoping to make it to Europe.

World

Angry protests at 'power keg' migrant camp over deadly fire

Tensions are high after the blaze at the vast and overcrowded Moira camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos.

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Migrant rescue boat receives permission to dock at Italian isle

Migrants aboard a charity rescue ship celebrated after the vessel received permission Saturday to sail to the Italian island of Lampedusa.

World

'Brexit is failure of Britain, not the European Union,' says Juncker

Jean-Claude Juncker, the outgoing President of the European Commission, has said Brexit is a "tragedy" and a "failure" but it is "the failure of Britain, not the European Union." He also said the UK had only ever been "part-time Europeans".

Spain

Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete honoured for migrant rescue

The German captain of the migrant rescue ship, Sea-Watch 3, which defied an Italian government ban and docked at Lampedusa, has been honoured for her stance by the Catalan Government.