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Migrants cross river from Guatemala to Mexico

Hundreds of Central American migrants waded through the shallow Suchiate River from Guatemala into Mexic, in a new test of US President Donald Trump's “Central America” strategy to keep them away from the US border.

Greece

Significant rise in migrants entering EU from Turkey in 2019

More than 82,000 people attempted to enter Europe from the east Mediterranean in 2019, driven by instability in Syria and Afghanistan, according to the EU's border agency Frontex

Greece

A dozen migrants dead after their boat sinks off Greek island

The vessel was carrying around 50 migrants and 21 of them were rescued.

Greece

Migrant-carrying car crashes in Greece after high-speed police chase

Police chased the car for around 150 kilometres before it jumped a series of red lights and crashed in Thessaloniki.

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France

Stowaway found dead in landing gear of Air France plane in Paris

The body of the stowaway was found after the plane - coming from the Ivory Coast - had landed in Paris.

Turkey

Turkey warns Europe of new refugee wave as Syrian forces advance

"Turkey cannot handle a new refugee wave from Syria," Erdogan said, adding that 80,000 people from Syria's Idlib had fled toward the Turkish border.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

'Ashamed' European rights chief demands closure of Bosnia camp

“This is not a place for human beings,” said Dunja Mijatovic, Council of Europe rights commissioner as she visited the Vucjak camp. “It should be closed."

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Sunseekers spring into action as migrants arrive at Spanish beach

Sunbathers soaking up the rays in the Canary Islands joined forces with emergency workers on November 29 after a rickety boat carrying two dozen migrants landed unexpectedly on a beach in the Spanish archipelago.

France

French police start moving migrants from northern Paris site

On Thursday morning, between 200 and 300 people were moved by French police from an illegal site in northern Paris.

World News

Migrants tell of their 'Libyan hell' as they arrive in Europe

The testimony of the 79 people rescued by the Aita Mari match with those of human rights organisations working in Libya: detention centres are places for torture and extortion. "You get arrested just because you are black," Ismail explained.

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.

Ireland

More than a dozen migrants found in lorry on France-Ireland ferry

More than a dozen migrants have been found in the back of a lorry on a Stena Line ferry en route to Ireland.

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.

France

Court acquits mountain guide charged with helping asylum seekers

The volunteer faced a three-month suspended sentence if the court had upheld his conviction for “facilitating irregular entry”

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.

Netherlands

UK-bound ship returns to Netherlands after 25 migrants found onboard

The migrants were hiding in a refrigerated container, Dutch police said.

Croatia

Migrant shot by Croatian police in mountains near Slovenian border

Human Rights Watch called on European authorities to investigate the "shocking and unacceptable" shooting, which left the migrant critically wounded.

World

European Council on Refugees blames Greece for islands migrant crisis

The Director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles has said the migrant crisis in Greece is the direct result of EU policy Catherine Woollard’s comments to Euronews’ Good Morning Europe came as the migrant issue in Greece and Bosnia was being discussed by the European Parliament

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.

My Europe Series

1989: Europe and the wall

In this special edition of State of the Union, we took out the red sofa to ask people about their thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we speak to an MEP who lived through it as a young girl and look at the business of new walls in Europe.