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Germany sharpens its tone with Austria over migrants

Germany has accused Austria of sending people over their common border under the cover of darkness to escape detection. The flow is thought to have

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Tony Abbott says Europe's border policy is a 'catastrophic error'

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Slovenia sends migrants on trains to Austria as its own refugee camps are full

The sight of migrants trudging across Slovenian fields on foot is to end soon. Because the camps are over flowing, from now on the government is

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Europe toughens its stance in bid to slow migration surge

Austria has announced plans to build what it calls ‘technical barriers’ on its border with Slovenia to help control the flow of thousands of migrants

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Balkans struggle with migrant crisis as winter looms

EU and Balkan leaders may have agreed a new plan at the weekend to tackle the refugee crisis but in the meantime the steady flow of migrants

Slovenia

EU stiffens border controls but human bottlenecks shiver in the cold and rain

Twenty-four hours after the EU’s special central and eastern European member states’ summit on the refugee crisis and there are already signs that

Europe News

MEPs react to EU-Balkans summit

At the start of yet another meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs were far from optimistic after Sunday’s EU-Balkans summit. That

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EU agrees on thousands of extra refugee places on Balkan migration route

European Union leaders have agreed to provide another 100,000 spaces in refugee welcome centres along the route from Greece towards Germany. It’s

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EU's long march towards refugee solution continues in Brussels

The EU summit of central and eastern European states grinds on in Brussels as the participants try to get agreement on dealing with the refugee

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Marching through the fields

Marching through the fields Around 1,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Slovenia-Croatia border on foot at dawn on Saturday (October 24), near the

Serbia

EU strives for common stance as spats mark response to Balkan migrant crisis

As tens of thousands of migrants stream across the Balkans splits, spats and threats are features of the European response. Three Balkan leaders vow

Serbia

Serbia and Croatia agree deal to transport migrants to 'end torture'

Thousands of migrants have arrived at the border between Serbia and Croatia. The flood of people shows no sign of slowing. The migrant crisis has

Turkey

Baby rescued alive hours after migrant boat sinks in Aegean Sea

A baby, believed to be just 18 months old, has been rescued, alive, from the Aegean Sea. The toddler was wearing a life jacket when found. He is

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Europe Weekly: EU struggles for solutions to refugee crisis

In this week’s edition of Europe Weekly: another summit is called; this time with leaders from the western Balkans as the EU struggles to find a

My Europe Series

Poland and refugees. Where is the Solidarity?

There may only be a few Tatars in Poland but they have been in the country for centuries. The Imam, Janusz Aleksandrowiczat, of a mosque in

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Thousands of refugees enter Slovenia as Ljubljana seeks EU help

More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the last 24 hours and thousands more are expected. Thousands of refugees, most of them from

Poland

Polish right would tip EU centre of gravity eastward

Beata Szydlo (pronounced ‘shédwa’) of Poland’s right-wing Eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS), at 52 could lead a new nationalist-driven

Germany

Germany's interior minister says migrant crisis has two faces

Migrants not needing protection in Europe will be sent back home. The warning from Germany’s interior minister Thomas de Maiziere, who says the

Slovenia

Slovenia calls for EU help amid record influx of refugees

More than 12,600 migrants have arrived in Slovenia in just 24 hours -- a record, and more than the daily influx seen in Hungary last month, according to police.

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EU calls mini summit over Balkans struggle to cope with refugee crisis

Refugees arrived at the Austrian border station at Spielfeld, tired and hungry on Wednesday night. Around 3,000, mostly young men but there were