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Greece

Greek police clear Idomeni camp

Greek police have completed the clearance of the Idomeni camp and many residents have been moved to official refugee centres near Thessaloniki, while others set up new camps nearby.

World News

Powerful Eye Contact Project Aims to Break Down Barriers With Refugees

“Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

World News

Migrant rescue from capsized boat is caught on camera

The capsizing of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea has been caught on camera by the Italian Navy.

Germany

Germany's carrot and stick approach to refugee integration

German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented her government’s new refugee integration law on Wednesday after a coalition summit in Meseberg in eastern…

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Italy

Overcrowded fishing boat capsizes off Italian coast, 500 migrants rescued

The Italian navy has released distressing images of an overcrowded fishing boat capsizing off the Libyan coast sending hundreds of migrants tumbling into the…

Economy

Humanitarian Summit spotlight on the economics of aid

With tens of millions of people displaced from their homes and even their countries, the practicalities of the refugee crisis have been in focus at the UN organised Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.

Turkey

UN chief Ban voices disappointment as World Humanitarian Summit closes

Turkey’s President Erdogan and UN chief Ban Ki-moon have closed the 1st World Humanitarian Summit, voicing disappointment so few high-profile leaders attended

World News

IOM says fewer migrants dying on Mediterranean route to Europe

“If we fail at this, we fail at everything” Chief of the International Organization for Migration William Lacy Swing said at the World Humanitarian Summit in…

Turkey

World Humanitarian Summit calls for shift of emphasis from response to prevention of refugee crisis

Turkey has been much of the focus of the refugee crisis and now at the first World Humanitarian Summit the two day programme is hoping the talking and discussion will lead to priority action

Greece

Idomeni: Greece says operation to clear camp going smoothly

An operation to clear Europe’s biggest makeshift refugee camp is progressing without problems, Greek officials say.

World News

Greece begins evacuation of Idomeni refugee camp

Greek authorities on Tuesday began a dawn operation to gradually evacuate the country’s largest informal refugee camp at Idomeni on the Macedonian…

Turkey

Controversial World Humanitarian Summit opens

Despite criticism from some NGO’s that it is simply ‘a fig-leaf of good intentions’ the first World Humanitarian Summit has opened in…

Turkey

Humanitarian Summit seeks solutions in Istanbul

The World Humanitarian Summit, the first of its kind,is taking place in Istanbul.

My Europe Series

In pursuit of the American dream

Euronews travels to Arizona and Texas to find out how successive waves of migrants have fared.

My Europe Series

Which US city welcomes the most refugees?

Euronews travels to the Lone Star State to find out how even there, the story of immigration has not run smoothly.

My Europe Series

Immigration: how do the US and EU compare?

Amid election talk of legislative reform on both sides of the Atlantic, is immigration becoming a political football?

Greece

Clashes in Idomeni as migrant frustration boils over

There have been more violent clashes over night between police and migrants in the tent city that has been created on Greece’s northern border with the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

Jordan

Soccer star Mesut Ozil has kickabout with young Syrian refugees

Young Syrian refugees in Jordan have been having a kickabout with Germany and Arsenal soccer star Mesut Ozil.

Italy

Tough sentences demanded for suspected people smugglers

Prosecutors in Sicily have demanded an 18-year jail sentence for a man accused of captaining an overloaded migrant boat that sank in April. Up to 800

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU and Turkey trade blows over visa deal

In this edition of Europe Weekly: Brussels and Ankara trade barbs over a planned visa-free travel deal for Turkish residents; Workers protest over