Tag: European Mass Migration Crisis
EU to offer Turkey aid, trade help despite rights concerns
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders are set Thursday to provide new incentives to Turkey to improve cooperation on migration and trade despite democratic backsliding...
UK plan for tougher asylum-seeker rules draws criticism
LONDON — The British government said Wednesday it will toughen immigration rules to make it harder for people who arrive by unauthorized routes such...
Truck carrying migrants overturns in Croatia killing 4
ZAGREB, Croatia — A freight truck overturned early on Monday in Croatia killing four migrants who were hiding inside, and injuring a number of...
Canary Islands: 2-year-old rescued from migrant boat dies
BARCELONA, Spain — A 2-year-old girl from Mali who was rescued from a migrant boat near Spain’s Canary Islands and hospitalized in critical condition...
Italian minister meets Libya’s new Tripoli government
CAIRO — Italy’s top diplomat on Sunday became the most senior western official to travel to Libya after an interim government took power in...
Migrant father charged with son’s death on journey to Greece
VATHY, Greece — On a pine-covered hill above the sparkling blue Aegean lies a boy’s grave, a teddy bear leaning against the white marble...
5 years on, stalled EU Turkey migrant deal remains a model
BRUSSELS — Five years after it was signed, the widely-criticized deal between the European Union and Turkey aimed at preventing migrants from entering Greece...
Hungary’s PM aims to create new right-wing political force
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said Friday he will soon meet with other right-wing politicians from Poland and Italy to discuss...
Mediterranean ministers to discuss EU migration policies
ATHENS, Greece — The interior ministers of the five Mediterranean countries on the front line of mass migration to Europe are meeting in Greece...
10 hospitalized in Canaries after Spain rescues migrant boat
BARCELONA, Spain — Emergency services in Spain’s Canary Islands said Wednesday that 10 people suffering from hypothermia have been hospitalized after a migrant boat...
