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France

France: Tension rises as migrants brave the Alps

Over a nearly two year period, more than 3,500 migrants have ventured into the mountains to seek asylum in France.

Hungary

Hungary’s ‘Stop Soros’ bill seeks to criminalise migrant helpers

Hungary's government has drafted new laws which could criminalise NGOs who help migrants seeking asylum.

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Austria's crack down on migrants

Kurz wants assurances from countries like Albania that the Balkan refugee route from Greece via Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to central Europe is monitored.

Belgium

Protests over fatal shooting of 2-year-old migrant girl in Belgium

Hundreds turned out in Brussels to protest against the fatal shooting of a two-year old Iraqi-Kurdish girl by police in the Belgian province of Hainaut a week earlier.

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Europe News

Modern slavery in the heart of Europe

No need to travel far from EU institutions to find out about migrant labour conditions.

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Human trafficking in Brussels

France

New iniative to rescue migrants

Jose Benavente and Benoit Micolon invested all their savings, 130,000 euro's, to buy a light plane to find dingies and alert ships for a speedier rescue

Germany

German businesses want workers but immigration courts are turning them away

The skills gap is still there despite a potential workforce

United Kingdom

Homeless EU Migrants could receive compensation from UK Government

Hundreds of thousands of pounds could be paid out to rough sleepers who have been wrongly threatened with deportation by the Government.

Greece

Greek court frees rescue workers

Three Spanish firefighters had been accused of migrant trafficking

Greece

Spanish aid workers on trial for people smuggling in Greece acquitted of charges

Three Spanish firefighters accused of people smuggling in Greece have been acquitted of all charges.

Malta

Volunteer pilots ready for take-off to help save migrants in the Med

‘Pilotes Volontaires’: two Frenchmen used their savings to buy a light plane, aiming to search the sea off the Libyan coast and help NGOs save migrants in distress.

Mexico

Hundreds of migrants at U.S. border given stark warnings

Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans who angered President Trump after being part of a month-long caravan could be forced to split from their families if they cross the border in Mexico.

France

Anti-immigration group blocks French Alps border to stop migrants from crossing

Generation Identitaire, a French anti-immigration group, gathered on Saturday in Col de l'Echelle to stop migrants crossing into France from Italy.

Hungary

Sunday's election in Hungary will be a barometer of nationalist sentiment

Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party sees itself as a defender of Hungary against Europe and Muslim migrants

Israel

Israel frees migrants pending deportation as Netanyahu struggles to placate coalition partners

Prime minister's hard-right allies want forced deportations but host countries hard to find.

Italy

Italian anger at French border police intrusion over migrants

Italy's Foreign Ministry has summoned the French ambassador to explain why armed French border police entered a clinic that cares for migrants. Claims that doctors and lawyers were intimidated.

World News

Migrants stranded in Greece march against racism

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens and chanted "open the borders" after sixteen migrants drowned at the weekend in the Aegean Sea, 5 of whom were children

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Hundreds of migrants rescued in mediterranean

A number of rescues were performed earlier in the day by the charity ship Aquarius, which is operated by Berlin-based NGO SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, as well as Libyan coastguard vessels, rescuing hundreds at sea

Libya

Hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya

Rescue ships and Libya's coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three migrant boats off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli.