Construction is underway on a new European ‘Iron Curtain’ designed to keep migrants from crossing into EU territory. The barrier is taking the form of a 109 mile long fence along Hungary’s southern border. Hungary is the most south easterly
A British lorry driver has claimed that his colleagues have been stabbed and beaten by “intimidating” migrants as they pass through the French port of Calais. His testimony is the latest in a long line of warnings from drivers who are
Frontier police forces in northern France are complaining of the huge strain they are working under caused by migrants attempting to reach Britain. Numbers released earlier this week show they have detained 18,170 migrants in or around Calais already this year,
An estimated 5,900 children in England and Wales are living on as little as £1 a day because Europe’s open borders and an influx of economic migrants from further afield has allowed parents to travel to the United Kingdom without due care
Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia have turned away boats laden with thousands of migrants headed for their shores. Officials from the two countries met the boats, handed over fuel and supplies and sent them on their way. As Europe wrangles over the
Europol, the EU police agency, has launched a taskforce dedicated to rooting out the people traffickers who last year sent 170,000 illegal migrants in a perilous journey across the Mediterranean. 3,000 of those shipped across died as overloaded boats sank
Ukip has accused Prime Minister David Cameron of breaking “another” promise on immigration, after the EU’s Foreign Ministers, including Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, gave the go-ahead to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for EU membership. Mr Cameron had previously
A second ‘ghost ship’ crammed with 450 migrants and left drifting after abandoned by its crew has reached the Southern coast of Italy. The Ezadeen, a vessel flying an ensign from Sierra Leone, docked in the port of Corigliano Calabro
A ship crammed full of 970 migrants was abandoned by its crew and set to crash into the Italian coast in what looks to be an elaborate people trafficking operation. The migrants, thought to be Syrian and Kurdish refugees, were
