Unwelcome Refugees

A report by European border security agency Frontex said that more migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe over the past year, although the numbers using the route across the Balkan region decreased. Frontex Executive Director Hans Leijtens in Skopje, North Macedonia in April. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI New data published…

Athens, Greece – When Notis Mitarakis took the job of migration minister, he received a baptism of fire. In January 2020, even before he was sworn in, Mitarakis visited his constituency of Chios. There were 100,000 asylum seekers in Greece, and half of them lived on the five eastern Aegean…

/ Europe Issued on: 29/04/2023 - 17:53 Pope Francis is greeted as he visits the Church of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary to meet with the poor and with refugees during his apostolic journey in Budapest, Hungary, April 29, 2023. © Vatican Media, via Reuters Pope Francis thanked Hungarians on Saturday…

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS, April 20 (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers voted on Thursday to require member countries to host some of the refugees and migrants coming to the bloc at times of high arrivals, part of a fiercely contested reform due ahead of a 2024 pan-European election. The European…

A look at what’s happening in European Championship qualifying on Sunday: GROUP C England looks to follow up its 2-1 away win over Italy as it hosts Ukraine, which has not played a game since September. Ukrainian refugees will be among the fans at Wembley. England manager Gareth Southgate will…

Pope Francis on Saturday greeted thousands of refugees brought to Europe by Christian charities, recognising their difficult journeys and hailing their desire to "live free from fear and insecurity". At the Paul VI hall in the Vatican, the 86-year-old pontiff also thanked those who helped the refugees settle into their…

The bodies of drowned migrants are still washing up on the beaches of Crotone, Italy on the Mediterranean Sea. Their wooden boat crashed on the rocks just offshore from this Calabrian resort town, turning the beach, said one local, “into a graveyard.” The death toll reached 67 on Wednesday, with…

February 25, 2023 at 4:17 a.m. EST A volunteer waits at St. Petersburg railway station before meeting Ukrainian refugees from the Kherson region on Jan. 12. (Ksenia Ivanova for The Washington Post)To avoid the authorities, thousands of displaced Ukrainians in Russia are relying on a discreet network of unofficial volunteers…

BRUSSELS -- Some refugees and asylum-seekers in Brussels have been spending months in between the Street of Palaces and the Small Castle — quite literally. Unfortunately, it's not a dream come true at the end of their fearful flight from halfway across the globe. It's a perpetual nightmare. Petit Chateau,…

GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) expects another wave of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine in Europe over the winter because of "unliveable" conditions, he said on Monday. Russia's attacks on Ukraine's electricity infrastructure have left millions of people without heat,…