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Police report that they have arrested double the number of illegal immigrants at Czech international airports as they did last year. Most of the aliens were arrested at Prague’s international airport, and a sizeable number of them arrived on planes from Turkey and Greece.

The Hungarian government is offering free flights and a monthly stipend to its young people, many of whom have left the nation to find work elsewhere in Europe, if they return to the country. The programme, called ‘Come Home, Young People’

After forming a government with the support of ‘Denmark’s UKIP’, the new centre-right bloc’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen has travelled to Germany to meet his counterpart and discuss the new border arrangements. Although the Eurosceptic, anti-mass-immigration Danish People’s Party (Dansk

It has been a difficult week for Greece, whose as-of-yet insurmountable debt to the European Union and International Monetary Fund continues unpaid and with little hope of preventing a default.

Syrians are the key actors in the human trafficking organizations that illegally smuggle migrants across the Aegean Sea, from Turkey into the European Union (EU), reports Hurriyet Daily News.

Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in Brussels.

Hungary announced plans to build a 100 mile-long wall across their border with Serbia in order to stem the invasion. Serbian leaders harshly condemned the border fence. Their foreign minister went so far as to call it the “new Berlin Wall.”

Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, head of Rwanda’s intelligence agency, has been arrested in the UK on behalf of Spain for an array of crimes allegedly committed following the end of the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 dead. Rwanda is calling the arrest an “atrocity” and “unacceptable” attempt by Europe to “degrade Africa.”

A multimillionaire couple has bought a boat and are using it to save thousands of desperate migrants crossing from Africa to Europe.

Europe is expected to establish a new police unit that will scan the Internet for Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda and shut down the jihadist group’s social media accounts, news outlets report.

Some 185,000 people applied for asylum in an EU country in the first quarter of 2015, up 90 per cent from the previous year, new figures reveal. According to the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat the number of people seeking asylum

A school fair has been cancelled on the French island of Corsica after parents reportedly threatened teachers who planned to have their pupils sing John Lennon‘s ‘Imagine’ in Arabic. Lennon’s anthem to peace, contains some of the most famous lyrics of all time: “Imagine there’s

The US will take a decision soon to store heavy weapons including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in Poland, the Polish defence minister says.

Iran has been accused of providing support to an alleged Hezbollah operative in Cyprus who was planning to carry out a series of terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish sites in Europe, according to news reports.

France’s Foreign Minister has pleaded with French citizens to stop being rude to visitors in a bid to boost the country’s tourism industry. According to the Independent, Laurent Fabius has told his countrymen to stop living up to their international reputation for

From June 18th through June 20th over 5,000 historical reenactors will gather in central Belgium to commemorate the 200th anniversary of perhaps the most famous battle in world history, Waterloo – and a small group of dedicated, history and horse loving Americans will be an important part of the spectacular festivities. At least one member of the British Royal family will be in attendance along with the King and Queen of Belgium, the King and Queen of the Netherlands, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, various high ranking official from both France and Germany, and other dignitaries from across Europe.

The Council of Europe’s ‘European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance‘ (ECRI) published critical reports this week calling for action in Hungary and Poland to fight prejudice within their borders. Although often cited as victims of intolerance in the UK it has been shown that

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Ashton Carter said he is “incredibly optimistic” about the United States’s position in the world.

With tens of thousands of migrants braving the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas for a change to live in Europe, a report from Greek newspaper Ta Nea puts the dramatic situation in perspective: 407 migrants landed in Greece, mostly traveling illegally from Turkey, in the past 24 hours.

 The majority of French, Germans and Italians oppose their country using military means to defend a NATO ally against Russian aggression, according to data published today by the Pew Research Center. The questions were posed in the light of the

A common refrain in the aftermath of Islamist activity is that all must guard against a “rising tide of Islamophobia“. But the warnings have been overstated, according to new research by the Pew Research Center, which shows that anti-minority sentiment is not

There goes Tony Blair again. Failing upwards and moving effortlessly on to another high-profile international job. Does he not know when to stop? Fresh from his years as a Middle East peace envoy that delivered precious little peace, the former

The city of Calais, France has been labeled a “war zone” for more than a year now, as violence between competing factions of African migrant smugglers threatens to engulf the city and its economy. As the EU demands France take in 9,000 more migrants, officials doubt the country could keep the peace in that scenario.

A Spanish court has filed a formal complaint against the Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram, citing the principle of universal justice, after discovering a Spanish victim of the group: a nun who was accosted in 2013 by terrorists belonging to the group.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hopes to get the final details of a bailout deal with the European Union worked out by Sunday, but he has faced increased criticism from the hard left in Greece for negotiating at all.

(Reuters) Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.

The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and Greece over the next two years.

Greece is facing a June ‘cash crunch’ in the latest development in its ongoing fiscal crisis. The country will be unable to find the €1.6bn (£1.1bn) sum it is due to hand the International Monetary Fund (IMF) next month, one

A nurse employed by a health NGO who returned from work in Sierra Leone has become the first person to test positive for Ebola in Italy, officials confirmed on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking in Albania on Wednesday, called for Europe to accept more refugees, particularly those fleeing from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Erdogan called this a “duty” Europe should be held accountable for.

Both the legitimately elected Libyan government in Tobruk and the Islamist faction controlling the nation’s capital, Tripoli, have expressed opposition to a plan by European Union nations to use military force to combat human trafficking across the Mediterranean Sea, which has cost a record number of lives already in 2015.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP)– French leader Francois Hollande on Tuesday will make the second visit ever by a sitting president of France to its once prized possession of Haiti, where bountiful resources and brutal plantation slavery made it the European nation’s most profitable colony some 250 years ago.

MOSCOW (AP) — A report released Tuesday containing material compiled by slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said at least 220 Russian soldiers died in two battles in eastern Ukraine within the past year.

MOSCOW: Some 10,000 people took to the streets of Chisinau, capital of Europe’s poorest nation Moldova, to protest over the disappearance of $1 billion from three banks, police said.

China is looking to rebuild the fabled “Silk Road” trade route through Asia and Europe, which is remembered – somewhat apocryphally – as one of the great commercial achievements of the previous millennium. (The last two millennia, in fact, give or take a century.)

Austrians consider themselves to be more tolerant of almost all sexual deviances from the norm. That’s not all. They readily accepted sexual equality and other races but did not extend their open mindedness to Islam, and even their fellow Austrians, who