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Hungary's army can shoot rubber bullets and tear gas at refugees

Hungry’s parliament has authorised its army to shoot rubber bullets, pyrotechnical devices, (flashbangs), net guns and tear gas grenades at migrants

Europe News

EU countries try to patch up differences over migration plan

The European Union has looked like European disunion in recent weeks. Member states have traded blow over how to manage the flow of migrants into

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU struggles for solution to refugee crisis

In this edition of Europe Weekly, EU governments fail to agree on a solution to the influx of refugees heading towards Europe; some countries have

Turkey

Migrants have gathered close to the Turkish town of Erdine hoping to cross into Greece

Walking into Europe is the dream of several hundred migrants who have made their way through Turkey to the Greek border but it has been closed. The

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World News

Eurostat data reveals increase in first time asylum seekers for the second quarter of 2015

A report has put numbers to the human tide of first time asylum seekers who have registered in Europe. Figures from the Brussels statistics body

Croatia

Chaos in Croatia as relentless migrant surge continues

Amid scenes of mayhem on Thursday, Croatian security forces were overwhelmed as asylum seekers pushed ahead into Western Europe. They surged past

Europe News

EU eyes refugee crisis solution

Efi Koutsokosta, euronews: First of all I would like to ask you about these pictures that everybody has seen today between Hungary and Serbia, the

Hungary

Hungary is slammed over treatment of migrants

Hungary has been severely criticised after water cannon and tear gas were fired at migrants at its closed border on Wednesday. UN Human Rights

Croatia

Hundreds of migrants push through police lines in Croatia

Amid chaotic scenes in Croatia, hundreds of asylum seekers surged past security forces on Thursday to continue their journey to Western Europe. Some

World News

Croatia says it can't take more migrants as thousands pour in

Croatia says it can’t take any more migrants as thousands pour into the country, heading to western Europe this way, having been thwarted at

Greece

Riot police clash with migrants as tension rises in Lesbos

There were ugly scenes on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday, where authorities at a registration camp are struggling to contain hundreds of new

Greece

Closed borders and razor-wire fences fail to deter desperate refugees

Desperate refugees waiting to leave the Greek island of Lesbos say they are determined to make their way to northern Europe, despite closed borders

Hungary

Refugees massed on Serbian border face long walk into Europe

Hungary has declared a state of emergency and has totally closed its borders to anyone, with the result that on the Serbian side a great crush of

Hungary

Hungary's new laws, razor fence to sharpen refugee control

Hungarian troops have been preparing to help enforce new laws aimed at securing the Serbian border. The soldiers will backstop the new fence Hungary

Hungary

Migrants: Hungary seals border with Serbia

Hungarian police have sealed the main and remaining crossing point used by refugees and migrants coming over its southern border from Serbia. Record

Europe News

Migration crisis: EU Interior Ministers try to settle quota row

Meeting in emergency session on Monday to discuss Europe’s migration crisis, EU interior ministers are on collision course over proposals to

World News

Schengen: 1985 pact under increasing strain

The original agreement to allow unhampered movement was signed near Schengen, a small town in Luxembourg, on 14th June, 1985. European Economic

Hungary

Time running out for refugees before Hungary border crackdown

It was a race against time for refugees to get into Hungary on Monday with the country’s hardline approach to the migration crisis about to get much

Germany

Germany introduces 'temporary' controls along Austrian border

Ahead of an EU Interior Ministers’ crisis meeting on Monday the strain of absorbing so many refugees may be starting to tell in Germany. Berlin is

Greece

More migrants drown as boats capsize off Greek coast

At least 34 people, nearly half of them women, babies and children, have drowned after their overloaded boat capsized in the eastern Aegean. Greek