First group of refugees ferried from the Greek islands to Turkey as part of a controversial EU plan to curb migration to Europe

Cyprus said on Tuesday it won’t back any acceleration of negotiations for Turkey’s EU membership, jeopardising an accord between the EU and Ankara. The EU wants to finalise a deal with Turkey over the return of refugees and migrants...

Demonstrators, led by the Socialist group in the European Parliament, have called for EU member countries to stop building walls to keep out refugees and migrants and to work together to solve the crisis. Martin Schulz, the European...

Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal have been in Berlin to meet with refugees to mark the fifth year of the Syrian war. George and Amal Clooney hear Syrian refugees’ heart-wrenching stories https://t.co/WUN3jIQBuE...

Cyprus will veto a planned EU-Turkey deal on refugees unless Ankara recognises the country’s Greek Cypriot government, President Nicos Anastasiades told euronews in an interview on Thursday. Last week, Germany brokered a deal with the...

EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a decisive summit to stop more refugees and migrants coming into Europe. The controversial draft deal would see one Syrian refugee from Turkey resettled in the EU for every migrant Turkey...

EU leaders and Turkey’s prime minister have approved a controversial deal on refugees which will see all migrants arriving in Greece from Sunday onwards being sent back to Turkey. The EU in turn will resettle thousands of Syrian refugees...

Gulwali Passarlay, who went to the U.K. as a child refugee, talks about a plan to send others like him, arriving in Greece, back to Turkey

More than 80 refugees experience their first-ever hockey game

13 plucked from rough seas as dinghy takes on water

Greece has borne the brunt of the arrivals from the Middle East, with many refugees and migrants making the journey from Turkey in makeshift boats. Athens has been asking for more EU help and on Wednesday the European Commission...

Berlin hosted a special classical concert at the city’s Philharmonic Hall exclusively for refugees and volunteers. The evening, entitled “Welcome Among Us”, was a collaboration of the three main symphonies in the capital and was intended...

Big challenges lie ahead for new Syrian refugees now living in Canada, Cameron MacIntosh reports

EU leaders are talking migration with Turkey’s prime minister at an emergency summit in Brussels. Ankara is under pressure to take back economic migrants and tackle smugglers, in return for aid and concessions. Prime Minister Ahmet...

Turkey is offering to step up its help to tackle Europe’s migrant crisis, but it wants more money and faster visa-free travel. Ankara is reportedly demanding an extra three billion euros, doubling the amount already pledged by the EU....

Olympic officials have identified 43 candidates for a team of refugee athletes who will compete in the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Voters in three German regions go to the polls on Sunday with the right-wing, anti-immigrant party Alternative für Deutschland hoping to make significant gains. Locals in the ‘Länder’ of Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland Pfalz and...

EU interior ministers gave a cool reaction on Thursday to a tentative deal with Turkey that would see visa restrictions eased in return for stemming the flow of migrants to Greek shores. The accord was brokered in late-night talks in...

Students at the École Socrates-Démosthène school campus II learned about the refugee crisis with a demonstration featuring life jackets sent by the mayor of Lesbos, Greece.

Macedonia has closed its border to illegal migrants, stranding thousands in truly awful conditions.

With around 30,000 migrants and refugees bottled up in Greece, euronews reporter Apostolos Staikos has been to see conditions at a camp in Idomeni, on the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Migrants, hoping to head...

The tentative deal struck between the EU and Turkey has drawn criticism from NGOs, the UN and across the political spectrum. But just how will it be enforced once it is fully finalised? Gulsum Alan, a journalist with euronews’ Turkish...

Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs: If I look at Germany I would say – the german economy is clearly the leader in Europe and in the Euro area and so Germany shouldn’t be blamed for its successes....

One of the world’s major cinema festivals, the Berlinale is not just about glitz and glamour but is also a chance for first time directors to make their mark. Young Portuguese director Leonor Teles won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film...