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Denmark

Denmark blocks rail and road links with Germany to stop refugee flow

Denmark has closed road and rail links to Germany in a bid to block refugees from heading north to Sweden. Police tried in vain to persuade people to

Poland

Poland says it is considering taking in more migrants than expected

Poland has announced it is considering taking in more than the 2,000 migrants it earlier declared. Following a meeting on immigration, Prime Minister

Denmark

Denmark blocks routes to Germany as refugees refuse to register

Denmark has stopped all trains running to Germany due to exception passport checks. The move comes after hundreds of refugees travelling from Germany

World News

How many refugees is Juncker asking each EU state to take in?

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Turkey

Turkish refugee camps for Syrians set high standard

Syrians in the Nizip Refugee Camp are thankful for Turkey’s open-handed hospitality. For one thing, the 10,500 people in Nizip, around 50km from the

Hungary

Volunteers left to clean up rubbish at refugee centres in Budapest

Europe News

EU's Juncker urges governments to accept refugee quota plan

National governments must accept binding quotas to relocate asylum seekers if they are to tackle the EU’s refugee crisis, European Commission chief

Venezuela

Venezuela offers to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees

Venezuela has said it stands ready to give asylum to 20,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria. “I want 20,000 Syrians to come to our Venezuelan

Europe News

EU set to unveil fresh migration plan

EU officials will unveil this Wednesday a new proposals to resettle close to 160,000 asylum-seekers across Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Germany

Germany pleads for quotas of refugees as thousands more arrive and weather chills

Thousands more refugees arrived on Tuesday (Sept. 8) from Hungary into Austria, where the weather is getting colder. Austrian police say at least

World News

UN says one million migrants should reach Europe by 2016

The United Nations says Europe must offer guaranteed relocation for Syrian refugees. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says around one million migrants

Denmark

Denmark: launches anti-migrant ad campaign

The Danish immigration ministry has placed adverts in leading Lebanese newspapers to discourage refugees from heading to Denmark. #Denmark runs

Greece

Syrian journalist films perilous crossing from Turkey to Greece

Many immigrants flowing into Europe recently have entered via Greece, having made a short but often dangerous journey across the sea from Turkey with

Hungary

Around 300 migrants give up their desperate struggle to walk to the Hungarian capital

A group of around 300 migrants, many from Syria, abandoned their struggle to to walk the Hungarian capital Budapest on Monday night. Desperate and

Hungary

Hungarian police scuffle with migrants and refugees at Serbia border

The situation at the Hungary-Serbia border remained tense on Monday (September 7). The Hungarian defence minister resigned as scuffles continued

Germany

Germany's winning refugee welcome formula

Many Germans are rolling out a cheering, red carpet welcome for refugees that few could doubt is genuine. To the many thousands fleeing war, who

United Kingdom

UK's Cameron changes tack on refugees, admits drone killing

Finally stung into action after public opinion swung dramatically in favour of allowing more refugees into Britain last week, the British government

Germany

Germany welcomes 10,000 new refugees

Germany was expecting more than 10,000 new refugees to arrive during the course of Monday (September 7). Migrants and refugees received a warm

Greece

Greeks evacuate refugees from Lesbos as island overflows

The emergency evacuation of refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos has begun after the island, normal population 4,000, was overrun with between 15

Germany

Germany to spend six billion euros on refugees

Germany has announced a series of measures and six billion euros of funding to deal with the refugee crisis that is being described as