French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb described the level of violence in Calais as “unprecedented.” He attributed the fighting to an escalating turf war between Afghan and Kurdish gangs seeking to gain control over human trafficking between Calais and Britain, which … Read More
PHOTO: Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees are at risk of being forced to return as violence continues.(Reuters: Muhammad Hamed, file photo) RELATED STORY: Syrian refugees fleeing violence shot at and beaten at Turkish border, HRW says RELATED STORY: After years of bombing … Read More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel casts her vote in the family reunification motion | Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images Vote marks progress on particularly contentious issue in ongoing German coalition talks. BERLIN — The German Bundestag voted Thursday in favor of … Read More
LONDON – “The traditional system of Europe to screen and receive refugees was good enough before the refugee crisis but, with increased mobility, the system has collapsed,” warned UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi at the World Economic Forum … Read More
The flood of refugees into Europe in recent years has led to the collapse of the continent’s screening and reception process, according to Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva. The conflict in Syria alone has driven nearly … Read More
By the time the first week of 2018 had ended, the Mediterranean Sea had already taken a deadly toll. A rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya while carrying 150 migrants and refugees from across Africa. Just eight bodies, … Read More
AntisémitismeAFP ‘Anti-Semitism is the dangerous fuel feeding our enemies for generations’, diaspora minister said The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs released a report on Sunday that noted an increase in anti-Semitic sentiment throughout 2017 attributing the rise of the far-right and … Read More
A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. Yes and no. Europe is turning its back on the massive inflow of those who, for … Read More
GETTY The 209 people have since been taken to a migrant detention centre. The migrants are breached the gates leading into Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the border of Northern Morocco. One police officer was injured in the incident after … Read More
Money to go home. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach) Germany’s offer to pay rejected asylum seekers up to €1,000 ($1226) for individuals and €3,000 for families, to go home sparked condemnation and praise. But Europe’s economic powerhouse, which took in one million refugees in 2015, is by no … Read More