The UN Security Council on Friday approved a European military operation to seize and destroy boats used by migrant smugglers in the Mediterranean after thousands died in dangerous crossings. The British-drafted resolution authorizing the use of force won UN backing
“You shouldn’t enter a country through a hole in a fence,” the judge tells Mustafa, a Syrian migrant charged with a new type of crime created in Hungary only last month — illegally entering the country by crossing the newly-built
A 17-year-old from Eritrea was seriously injured Friday after making an apparent bid to jump on a Eurotunnel shuttle from France to Britain, a firefighter said, adding that his life was not in danger. “For an unknown reason, an Eritrean
Germany’s Interior Minister has blamed a rising tide of migrant violence in asylum centres on native Germans attacking “refugees”, despite a growing body of evidence to the contrary. Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière made the remarks in an interview
In France, Succès de scandale loosely translates to “no press is bad press.” French fashion line Haute couture has seized upon Europe’s migrant crisis to sling trendy new digs, and the backlash is grabbing international headlines.
Students in schools with high numbers of migrants tend to get lower test scores, a new report has claimed. Large numbers of migrants can lead to higher dropout rates, worse results and cause wealthier families to move to different neighbourhoods. The
Europe risks importing an Islamic cultural crisis unless it carefully manages the challenges posed by European migration, according to a German-Turkish writer. Zafer Senocak, born in Turkey but living in Germany since 1970 having moved there as a child, is
The Bavarian president has spoken in uncompromising terms about “emergency measures” for self defence, including migrant turnbacks, but his suggestions have angered senior figures in Berlin and Vienna. No stranger to controversy, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer is the leader of German
Fewer than one in 10 of the 311,000 working-age migrants in Germany have applied for work permits since the start of the year, the country’s Federal Employment Agency (BA) has revealed. Since the beginning of 2015, just 17,401 migrants have
ROME (AP) — An Italian police aircraft carrying 19 Eritreans took off from Rome’s Ciampino airport Friday, bringing the first refugees to Sweden under the European Union’s (EU) new resettlement program aimed at redistributing asylum-seekers from hard-hit receiving countries. The
A Hungarian photographer was hit by a barrage of online abuse after publishing a migrant crisis-inspired fashion shoot on his website. The offending gallery has now been removed. Predictably, Twitter went into meltdown. People said the shoot was “disgraceful,” “vile,”
European Union (EU) governments agreed on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and discussed creating an EU border force among measures to cope with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s civil war. Underlining the havoc brought by
A Bradford based charity will now only be helping genuine refugees near Syria after they woke up to the fact that those in the Calais “Jungle” camp are almost exclusively fit young men, who are “happy” to be there and
Europe is bracing itself for a second migrant wave from Syria as up to three million people begin to flee the country in the wake of the Russian military intervention. Russian warships fired 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea
The head of one of Europe’s leading economic think tanks has called on Germany’s government to scrap the minimum wage and raise the country’s retirement age in order to cope with the huge influx of migrants now underway. Only by
Sweden’s migration agency has called for sports halls and government emergency facilities to be turned over to migrant housing, as present facilities are totally overwhelmed by the volume of new arrivals. Migrants making it to Sweden have now hit 1,500
This is geopolitical chaos theory in practice. Every day the European Union (EU) changes direction on how it will cope with hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for a new life in Europe. Border fences go
A village in Germany has released a list of ground rules for migrants. The list covers matters of basic civility – like shopping and the Highway Code – to fundamental principles of Western society; like gender equality, not harassing young
It remains unclear whether the BBC intends to waste licence fee payers’ money writing about every Change.org petition that gets 10,000 signatures, or whether they reserve that privilege of publicly funded publicity for things with the word “racist” in the
Large-scale police operations across Europe are resulting in hundreds of people smuggler arrests, the main engine of suffering and the migrant crisis, which is placing national justice systems under enormous strain. Germany’s BILD tabloid reported yesterday on one criminal German-Turk gang,
European Union governments are set to agree on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants among the hundreds of thousands who have failed to win asylum as they try to cope with a surge in refugees from war-torn Syria.
The immigration ministry will be one of the most legislatively busy in Denmark this parliament, with 17 legal changes put forward to make it tougher for foreigners to get citizenship. While many of the new laws proposed may seem harsh,
One by one German Chancellor Angela’s Merkel’s political allies are questioning her touch. Ever since she announced to a startled world in mid-September that Germany would take anywhere up to 800,000 refugees from war-torn Syria and Iraq, Merkel seemed to rise above
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has blasted the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President Francois Hollande in the European Parliamentary chamber in Strasbourg today, following their guest speeches in which they urged “more Europe” and further European Union (EU) integration.
Two Iranian illegal immigrants have been arrested after walking the entire length of the Channel Tunnel into England. They slipped past security on Friday night as more than 100 migrants broke into the tunnel en masse, many getting as far
