Syrian migrants
Under pressure from populists, EU doubles down on curbing migration
At stake is EU members’ unity and trust in each other, as well as the bloc’s Schengen zone of control-free travel.
According to the UNHCR, there are now almost 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide – the highest number in modern history.
Hollande said 5,000 people had been evacuated from Calais and that there were 1,500 unaccompanied minors.
Hundreds of tents have been pitched by migrants, mostly Africans who say they are from Sudan.
It’s also been reported that Lohan offered to volunteer at the hospital staffed by Syrian doctors.
The wall is meant to prevent migrants in northern France from trying to reach the UK.
Speaking at the UN, President Zuma called for the root causes of the migrant crisis to be addressed.
A police official on Lesbos said nearly 60 percent of the Moria camp was destroyed in the fire.
In an unprecedented wave of migration last year, 1.3 million people reached the EU.
More than 1.4 million people, mostly Syrians and Afghans, sought international protection in the EU in 2015.
MSF will lose €37 million of funding from EU states and €19 million from EU institutions.
A team of students have designed a mobile phone charging station, powered only by the sun.
According to the report, migrants committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes at the start of 2016.
As Europe’s worst migration crisis since WWII continues, more than 2,500 people are thought to have died.
The migrants have largely ignored appeals by authorities to move to organised camps set up around Greece.
Nine out of 10 migrants & refugees entering the European Union in 2015 relied on facilitation services.
Over 340 people have so far been returned to Turkey since 4 April under the accord agreed with the EU.
EU leaders reached an agreement to tighten border control & coastguard to manage the influx of migrants.
Turkey and the EU last month sealed an accord which aims to end the chaotic arrival of migrants and refugees.