Unwelcome Refugees

The impact of the 2015 refugee crisis on sending and receiving societies has received significant scholarly attention. But there is little research on how the crisis affected ‘transit countries’ through which migrants travelled. This column studies 800 localities in 18 European countries to discover how local populations responded to the…

Breaking down the grants, loans and other forms of funding aspiring business owners should know about. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! June 3, 2020 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Although the streets of America have…

Russia and Turkey are again taking the lead in efforts to find a solution to Libya's near decade-long crisis - and hoping in the process to carve out spheres of influence for themselves in the oil-rich North African nation. In a telephone call late last month, the two countries' foreign…

ATHENS — Greeks are desperate for a holiday. Your holiday. The country is gambling that Europeans will still want sun and sea after being in coronavirus lockdown for months and it wants people to know that it's about to reopen for business. But the big question is: Will anyone come?…

Driven by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, the EU is proposing to borrow billions and give it to member states. For the first time in EU history, two-thirds of the money would be grants — not loans — that the recipient countries wouldn't have to repay.German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused…

The death toll among migrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean since 2014 has surpassed 20,000 Libya's coastguard intercepted about 400 Europe-bound migrants off the country's Mediterranean coast over the past two days, and brought them to detention centres near the capital Tripoli. Safa Msehli, a spokeswoman for the UN's…

LONDON — America’s far-right online activists have found a playground abroad. Since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016, right-wing digital groups and online activists who helped get him elected have exported their divisive playbook to Europe through digital chatrooms, encrypted messaging apps and the occasional trip across…

In this episode of Unreported Europe, Euronews' Valerie Gauriat reports on the desperate plight of asylum seekers, migrants and homeless people in France as the country emerges from lockdown.In the northern French port of Calais, police arrive to evict asylum seekers and migrants from their makeshift camps every other day.…

Ministers are facing calls to bring more unaccompanied child refugees to the UK after it emerged the Home Office’s scheme for offering sanctuary to lone minors in Europe has ended – despite the fact that thousands remain stranded on the continent. In the first figures published on the Dubs amendment…

"Selling Organs to Survive" is the winner of the 2020 Webby Award for Social, News and Politics (Video). More than 3 million Syrian refugees have crossed the border into Turkey to escape the violence in their country. While they may now be physically safe, financially, they are anything but. Some…