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Hungary

Rebuilding a pluralist Syria key to encouraging returns

Refugees leave terror behind them. How many would ever go back? The Syrian-German project Adopt a Revolution says that more than half of the refugees

Europe News

First group of refugees relocated under EU scheme

The first group of refugees to be moved under an EU relocation scheme has flown out of Italy, bound for Sweden. The 19 Eritrean nationals boarded a

World

Refugees: ordeal to reach Europe, then struggle for acceptance

Merkel and Hollande in the European Parliament, showing a united front in dealing with the refugee crisis. Germany’s chancellor spoke out for

World News

EU Balkan refugee conference attempts to end divisions, offer more aid, and work with Syria's neighbours

Today Italy relocates its first batch of refugees, Eritreans, to Sweden, and hopes the trickle will become a flood out of its overstretched refugee

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Albania

Albanian migrants return home after asylum applications are rejected by Germany

Tirana International airport is the first sight of home for many Albanians. But it is not a happy reunion for all. Thousands of individuals and

Europe News

Migrant crisis: EU ministers agree to step up deportations and beef up borders

EU governments have agreed to step up deportations of migrants deemed to be illegal. Creating a border guard force has also been on the agenda at a

West Bank

West Bank Palestinians, some want to fight, others hope quietly

Euronews has been talking to Palestinians about what day to day life is like in the West Bank, in the refugee camp city of Tul-Karem and then in

Greece

Greek police crack migrant smuggling gang

Greek police have arrested 12 people and confiscated hundreds of fake identification documents after breaking an international migrant trafficking

Europe News

Britain's anti-EU leader Farage slams Merkel-Hollande parliament address

Britain’s anti-EU leader Nigel Farage has lashed out a joint European Parliament address by the German Chancellor and French President. Angela Merkel

Europe News

Migrant crisis dominates Merkel and Hollande's historic EU parliament address

Europe’s migrant crisis has dominated historic speeches by French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They have

Greece

On one beach: 283 lifejackets, 48 plastic tubes, 36 pieces of clothing

Norway

Taking the Arctic route: migrants cycle from Russia to Norway

Cycling from Russia to Norway is a recently-discovered route asylum seekers are using to reach the border-free Schengen Zone. Taxi drivers say they

World News

Almost 100 bodies wash up in Libya, EU leaders call for greater cooperation

The Libyan Red Crescent says at least 95 bodies have washed ashore on the coast of Libya. Some 85 were found near the capital Tripoli and ten

World

Is German opinion on refugees shifting?

The Bild newspaper reported on Monday, citing an internal government memo, that as many as 1.5 million people could seek asylum in Germany by the end

Hungary

Hungary's Muslims and Jews see no problem taking in refugees

How will they fit in? What influence will religion have? Refugees entering Hungary by the thousands might want to move on, to Germany or Sweden, but

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Migrants continue to arrive in Serbia

Germany

PEGIDA rallies against refugees in Dresden

Several thousand people have gathered in Dresden to protest against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plans to take in refugees. The anti-migrant group

Europe News

EU asks Turkey's Erdogan for help with refugee influx

Having been caught wrong-footed by the influx of refugees from Syria, the EU is asking Turkey for help. Brussels has previously been particularly

My Europe Series

UN recognition for Afghan refugee who spends her life educating girls in Pakistan

Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi has dedicated her life to bringing education to refugee girls in Pakistan. Now her efforts have been recognised by the

Germany

German media demands the 'real' numbers for the refugee influx

Quoting what they call an anonymous source within the German government one media outlet said on Monday Chancellor Angela Merkel had got her sums