The EU Commission's ratcheting up its legal battle with Hungary over migration rules. It's also denouncing the country's so-called 'Stop Soros' law, which criminalises support for asylum seekers. "The Commission has also sent a letter of...

The Belgium football team - playing England for the third place World Cup spot on Saturday - is bringing together fans from one of the least nationalist nations. The Red Devils revving up a country with language and ethniciity...

It's like stopping an ambulance from reaching a road crash. That is the comparison being made by German NGO 'Sea Watch' - as it lashes out at Malta for stopping its air and sea migrant rescue operations. The moves appearing to be part of...

German NGO 'Sea Watch' is threatening legal moves, as Malta stops its air and sea migrant rescue operations. What does it all mean, as Europe tries to resolve its differences over what's become a very divisive issue? Click on the video...

Ajmal Maarij, 27, dreamt of becoming a politician in his homeland of Afghanistan, but the conflict put an end to all that. Now he's a refugee in Belgium, working at a Red Cross asylum seeker centre. As the EU cracks down on migration...

Italy's hard-line, anti-migrant interior minister has toured a crime-laden migrant camp in the southern Calabria region and vowed to enforce only "limited, controlled and qualified" immigration. Matteo Salvini commented on the unsanitary...

The European Commission President's been in Vienna, as Austria takes up the rotating EU presidency. Jean-Claude Juncker met with Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who's making the migration issue a top priority. Kurz told the media: "During our...

Mechelen, a small city in Flanders, is home to 90,000 people and they're from 130 different nationalities. Back in 2016, the mayor, Bart Somers, won an award - recognising his achievements in welcoming and integrating immigrants. There's...

The idea of regional disembarkation platforms outside the EU for migrants trying to reach Europe is gaining momentum. European institutions believe these platforms could help distinguish economic migrants from those in need of...

Europe together, Europe united – buzz words in Brussels, but right now migration is driving a stake in all that. The political spats over the Dublin regulation, requiring arrival countries to handle asylum requests, the quota-sharing...

Austria's taken over the rotating EU presidency - one that's set to be dominated by migration, a divisive issue that's deepened Europe's fault lines. Vienna will be using its time in the hot seat to try and curb any further waves of...

A rush of diplomatic activity to deal with Europe's migration crisis has resulted in the announcement of an emergency meeting to take place this Sunday among interested heads of government. It's being called an "informal working meeting"...

As European leaders try to hammer out a plan to solve the migration crisis, the European Commission set out some of its proposals. Chief among them is the idea to prevent migrants from reaching Europe - where they end up in detention -...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has said his right-wing government will focus on migration issues during its upcoming six-month presidency of the European Union. Speaking after a meeting with European Commissioner Jean-Claud Juncker...

The fate of the six hundred or so migrants stranded in the Mediterranean aboard the Aquarius ship forced Europe into some soul-searching. And it became the battleground for MEPs, as they came together at a Strasbourg plenary session....

The escalating Franco-Italian diplomatic spat, sparked by the Aquarius migrant rescue ship drama, has put the spotlight on Europe's crumbling asylum policy. It also widens one of Europe's main political fault lines. Euronews spoke to an...

Women who are poor are crossing borders as never before in history. 48 percent of all migrants are women, according to the latest UN International Migration Report. During the European Development Days in Brussels, experts were...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an EU-wide policy towards asylum seekers on Wednesday. Speaking at an event of the European People's Party in Munich, Merkel said failure to implement such a policy would creat imbalances...

Cracks have emerged in the EU because of migration. And now there's pressure from the European Parliament to fix the broken asylum system, seen as one of the root causes of the bloc's problems. "European citizens have shown us in the...

Thousands of mourners have come together in Brussels for the funeral of toddler Mawda Shawdi, a German-born, Iraqi-Kurdish toddler fatally shot earlier this month by Belgian police. Those from the Kurdish community and beyond turned out...

Italy’s new Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, has promised to redistribute migrants in the EU and review sanctions against Russia. He was speaking in parliament ahead of two confidence votes which are expected to confirm the coalition...

The cast and crew of a new documentary pose together on the famous red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, ahead of a screening of their new film on French migrant rights. It tells the story of an olive farmer, Cedric Herrou, who's...

In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: We meet some of the migrants, dreaming of getting into the EU, but stuck in Serbia, as European leaders prepare to gather at a Western Balkans summit in Sofia.

Italy granted permission for 105 migrants rescued at sea to transfer to a sturdier boat, after more than a daylong bureaucratic tussle left them exposed to the elements. Even more migrants risk falling into bureaucratic limbo amid...