The IMF is warning the political mood around the world is undermining growth, which it sees remaining weak. It cites what is happening with the US presidential election, Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and growing...

Some 1.2 million asylum applications were made in Europe in 2015. To put that figure into context, this summer more than 300,000 applications were made.That’s only around 600 applications for every million Europeans. Asylum rules in...

The tide has definitely turned against Europe’s population – making it increasingly ‘grey’. That’s the theme in this edition of Real Economy. The shifting age demographics will increasingly challenge our healthcare systems in the future....

The Big Picture takes on a new report that ranks Canada 10 out of 16 nations

The head of the European Commission gave his first so-called State of the Union speech in September last year. Jean-Claude Juncker has faced a turbulent time since taking office in November 2014. The EU has been struggling to deal with a...

Key moments on his promises of immigration reform

It wasn’t the rain or the mud that crashed the party at this year’s Glastonbury Festival – it was Britain’s vote to leave the EU. A survey of more than 1,000 of those gathered at the iconic music festival in Somerset, England, showed 83...

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both discussed the Orlando nightclub attack today.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has touted Canada's openness in the past, but the recent surge in asylum seekers has critics calling out his earlier message even as he stresses that Canada's laws will be upheld along the U.S. border

The European Commission unveiled a proposal on Tuesday aimed at stemming the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe. It is based on a similar migration pact that the 28-member bloc struck with Turkey in March. EU officials say they will...

Newly released figures show net migration to Britain reached its second highest level on record last year. Coming less than one month before the referendum on European Union membership, the numbers were immediately seized on by...

Canadian government turned away the steamship, called the Komagata Maru, which carried hundreds of South Asian immigrants, most of them Sikhs

MEPs have warned Turkey that they won’t just rubber-stamp a deal to give the country’s citizens visa-free travel in Europe. The debate took place on Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels. The offer formed part of an EU...

Janina Ibarra was trapped in Canada for 13 years with no status and no job

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...

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...

Quebec politicians have declined to meet with the leader of France's far-right Front National party

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...

Leah Rose of Baton Rouge, Louisiana explains why she's supporting Donald Trump

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...

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...

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...