Danish TV2 had to cut short a report from the Sandholm asylum centre yesterday after their crew on the scene appeared to be intimidated and threatened by an angry migrant. Reporting on the situation at the ‘Asylcenteret Sandholm’, a former military barracks
Austria sought to tighten asylum rules in the face of a record influx of migrants, hours before the first refugees are set to be relocated from Greece Wednesday under a faltering EU plan to ease the burden on southern countries.
LESBOS, Greece — A garbage-strewn hillside on this Greek island has become the European Union’s testing ground for a new fast-track registration process for migrants. If it works, authorities plan rapid expansion to other refugee “hotspots” struggling to cope with
A self-declared government in Libya has issued a Gaddafiesque threat to flood Europe with “hundreds of thousands” of new migrants if the European Union (EU) fails to give the Islamist faction legal recognition. The threat, to charter boats and ferry ever-larger numbers
Unemployment in otherwise prosperous central European Austria has risen over the past year, with the greatest increase observed among the migrant community. The latest figures from the Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (Austrian Public Employment Service, AMS) show that last month, 410,854 people were employed,
A leading United Nations (UN) official in Geneva has said European leaders were warned the migrant crisis was going to happen “at least two years ago”, and suggested prevention and preparation would have eased the situation. He also warned that
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan will take back all its citizens to be deported from Germany as the European country struggles to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who have arrived there this year, a Kabul official said. Afghans
Billionaire investor George Soros has confirmed he wants to bring down Europe’s borders, following the accusation made last week by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Last week, Mr Orban accused Mr Soros – who was born in Hungary – of
GENEVA, Nov 2 – The number of migrants and refugees entering Europe by sea last month was roughly the same as for the whole of 2014, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday. The monthly record of 218,394 also
As neighbouring Norway becomes so safe police are preparing to hand in their firearms, Sweden is riding on the crest of a migrant gun crime wave fuelled by bloody gang wars. Not only is gun crime in Sweden higher than
Although many Balkan countries have done little to secure their own borders, they are doing all they can to help the flow of migrants to western Europe transit through as quickly as possible. Since Hungary closed their own borders to Croatia
BERLIN (AP) — Violence against Syrian asylum seekers spiked over the weekend with police Sunday reporting three different attacks in which six Syrian refugees had to be treated for injuries in the hospital. Two of the attacks, in Wismar and
On Sunday yet another ship carrying migrants sank off the coast of the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, resulting in the death of eleven people, including two children and four babies, according to the Greek coast guard.
A German evangelical priest has offered his parish church up to become migrant housing, but will be stripping out most of the fittings to ensure their comfort – including all symbols of Christianity. Father Joachim Deterding, parish priest of the evangelical Königshardt-Schmachtendorf
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s internationally recognized government says Italian vessels entered the country’s territorial waters without permission and vowed to use “all means” to protect its sovereignty. It says three Italian vessels were spotted off the coast of the
Sweden is facing collapse thanks to the recent huge influx of migrants into the country, the Swedish foreign minister has said. As 190,000 migrants this year alone pour into the country, law and order is beginning to break down as
A four-year-old boy has been hospitalised after having a stone thrown at him by a resident of a troubled German migrant centre which has seen riots and Islamist violence. The young boy, who has not bee identified, suffered “massive bruising” after he
The mayor of Austria’s second city has said there is no space for single male migrants in his country, and the government should only accept women, children, and families. Right-wing Mayor Siegfried Naglof the Austrian People’s Party expressed his views on
New migrants to Scotland are set to outstrip the number of babies born within the country by nine to one over the next ten years, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Overall, the UK’s population is
Firebrand Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (above) has, for the second time during Europe’s migrant crisis, lashed out at billionaire George Soros who he says is responsible for the continent-wide epidemic. Mr. Orbán was interviewed on Hungarian radio this morning. He blamed the likes
The people of Europe — if not their politicians — are waking up to the fact that mass migration is a cultural, rather than just economic issue, said Viktor Orban on Radio Budapest this morning. Speaking on the daily 180-minute early-morning
A German photographer has started a campaign to have “right wing propaganda” censored on Facebook, but pornographic images of women allowed. He’s calling it “nipples instead of incitement.” Photographer Olli Waldhauer kicked off his campaign by posting an image on
The Hungarian border fence has been a remarkable success, according to new figures made public by Viktor Orban’s homeland security chief this week. The new border fences, which closed off Hungary from Serbia in September and continued around the border,
Hundreds of Germans are attempting to bring criminal charges against Chancellor Angela Merkel, accusing her of treason by opening the borders of Germany to mass migration. The Federal Prosecutors office in Karlsruhe, Germany, has received over 400 letters calling for
The British public are the most unwilling in Europe to take in tens of thousands of migrants, a survey has found. The poll, by French company Ifop, of seven European nations, found that the British were the most sceptical of
