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Under pressure: migration, corruption and Brexit weigh on EU countries

This week in State of the Union: another NGO boat in a Mediterranean standoff with Italy saw the EU Commission calling for migrants to be disembarked. A corruption report saw Hungary in the spotlight for refusing its publication, and we looked at how Brexit is affecting expats in Brussels.

World

Image of drowned migrants prompts political soul-searching

Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and daughter Valeria - originally from El Salvador - drowned trying to cross the border from Mexico.

Europe News

EU leaders address migration at summit following UNHCR refugee report

"Will there be enough political will to push through and read those documents and take this seriously?" One migration policy officer said EU leaders need to understand a recent UNHCR report before reforming the asylum-seeking process.

World

World Refugee Day: 70 million displaced is 'wake up call for leaders'

A record number - 70 million people - are displaced in the world currently, as of World Refugee Day 2019. We spoke to the Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council on how to solve the crisis.

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Mexico

Mexican President offers “outstretched hand” to Trump after averting tariff war

Mexican President López Obrador has promised to stem flow of migrants entering the U.S. after Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods.

World

How are voters in UK and Germany reacting to upcoming EU elections?

Our correspondents Jessica Saltz in Berlin and Tadhg Enright in London explain how voters in Germany and in the UK are reacting to the upcoming EU elections.

Germany

High as a kite? Park boss creates bizarre boxes to tackle drug problem

"I thought it was a piece of art. But as a direct attempt to solve the issue of drugs this is, of course, ridiculous."

World

Libyan Prime Minister brings message of migration increase to Europe

Libya's UN-backed prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj will hold talks in Rome today with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, amid a deadly military escalation in Tripoli.

World News

Migrants drowning in Mediterranean 'unacceptable,' says Ska Keller

"We know where they are drowning and we are not helping at all. We're even stopping people who want to help and this is something I don't want to see in the European Union," the Green candidate for the EU's top job told Euronews.

Libya

Tensions flare in Libya as commander orders forces to move on Tripoli

Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to march on the capital Tripoli as the UN tries to push for a peace deal.

Malta

Teenage migrants charged with hijacking tanker after sea rescue

Teenage African migrants charged with hijacking tanker after sea rescue

Europe News

Hungary's Orban said he voluntarily agreed to Fidesz suspension

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he voluntarily agreed to pause Fidesz' party participation from the EPP.

World News

Euroviews. The European Parliament is intent on paralysing the EU’s muscle on migration spending ǀ View

The EU needs financial flexibility to support non-EU governments in preventing undocumented departures and taking back their own nationals.

World News

Asylum requests in EU sharply decline in 2018, new data shows

Asylum requests in the EU sharply declined in 2018 compared with previous years, new figures released by Eurostat have shown.

World

Your Call in full: Migration 'fake news' and Women's Day strikes

Watch the full episode of Thursday night's Your Call

Sweden

Award-winning Australian entrepreneur told to leave Sweden for visa

An award-winning Australian entrepreneur who's been living in Sweden for six years was told by immigration services he had to leave the country if he wanted his sole trader visa application to be considered.

Hungary

Watch: ‘Hungarians are not migrants,’ says foreign minister

Péter Szijjártó told Euronews it was “not fair to confuse migration with the free flow of labour within the European Union.”

Europe News

European election 2019 - this time will be different

People go to the polls against a backdrop of profound changes

World News

German rescue ship renamed in honour of drowned Syrian boy Alan Kurdi

Images of the Syrian toddler washed up on the beach three years ago shook the world.

Europe News

Hungary opposes EU-Arab League cooperation due to migrant concerns

On Friday, Hungary vocalised their opposition to a compromise between the EU and the Arab League over concerns about migrants.