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Migration keeps derailing British leaders

Migration keeps derailing British leaders

As the dust settles on days of far-right rioting, the issue seems inescapable for Britain’s new leader Keir Starmer.

August 12, 2024 4:01 am CET
Turkey carves its own course in NATO
Fortress Hungary has a surprising answer to its population crisis: Migration
Scoop! Why Ben from Ben & Jerry’s blames America for war in Ukraine
Repatriate British families from Al-Hol
UAE invites Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to COP28 climate summit
Death in Istanbul: The untold story behind Syria’s White Helmets
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In pictures: The endless heartbreak of Turkey’s earthquake

During those first two weeks after the tremors, it looked like the end of the world here, the apocalypse — and it felt like it, too.

April 15, 2023 4:03 am CET

Swedish woman gets 3 months in prison for Syria ‘war crime’

Woman shared photos of severed and impaled heads placed in Raqqa by ISIS.

March 29, 2023 4:29 pm CET

Denmark jails ISIS wife and strips her of citizenship

Danish-Bosnian woman lived as a housewife in Raqqa.

February 28, 2023 5:45 pm CET

‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum loses appeal over loss of British citizenship

The 23-year-old is now unlikely to be able to return to the UK.

February 22, 2023 12:49 pm CET
Unpacked

West must move faster to prevent a catastrophe in northern Syria

The widespread complaint by Arabs and Kurds alike is that since the defeat of the Islamic State, the international community has left them out of sight and out of mind.

February 11, 2023 4:16 pm CET

We need to do more to protect children in armed conflict

From where I am standing, the future looks grim. All of us have a duty to change it.

October 30, 2022 7:22 am CET

Putin to meet Erdoğan in Iran

Turkish leader has been seeking deal to ease blockade of Ukrainian grain.

July 12, 2022 3:39 pm CET

NATO bid reignites Sweden’s dispute with Turkey over Kurds

Turkey’s demand that Sweden and Finland extradite 33 people looks set to heavily delay NATO membership bids by Stockholm and Helsinki.

May 24, 2022 4:01 am CET

The EU’s real refugee policy: Division and delay

Before the war in Ukraine, the bloc’s failure to forge a common approach put the lives of thousands of asylum seekers at greater risk.

May 12, 2022 4:04 am CET

For Ukraine, Greece erects migration system not always offered to others

The approach reflects a European phenomenon aid workers say is discriminatory, but that authorities defend as simply following the law.

April 1, 2022 4:01 am CET

Europe asylum applications up by a third in 2021: Report

Overall, only 35 percent of all applications in the EU, Norway, Switzerland and UK were accepted.

February 22, 2022 9:15 am CET

German court convicts Syrian colonel of crimes against humanity

Syrian official Anwar Raslan gets life in jail, in landmark case that could set new precedent.

January 13, 2022 3:05 pm CET
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Syrians in Polish forest accuse Lukashenko’s forces of brutality

Migrants say they spent weeks being pushed between Poland and Belarus before being able to file asylum applications.

December 9, 2021 4:01 am CET

Polish-Belarusian migration crisis gets political

An effort by Belarus to spark a migration crisis is having some success.

August 25, 2021 4:00 am CET

EU Confidential #193, presented by the European Training Foundation: Vax attacks — German scandals — Syria conflict

Vaccine exports and Angela Merkel’s lockdown mea culpa are discussed in this episode, as well as what Europe can do to ease suffering in Syria, 10 years after the conflict there began.

March 25, 2021 3:57 pm CET

5 years on from Angela Merkel’s three little words: ‘Wir schaffen das!’

German chancellor says her 2015 pledge to let in refugees has ‘taken on a life of its own.’

August 31, 2020 4:05 am CET

Record 79.5M people forcibly displaced in 2019: report

An estimated 40 percent of all displaced people are children.

June 18, 2020 8:25 am CET

EU Confidential #143: Italy in coronavirus lockdown — Elections in France — UK’s Tom Tugendhat

Listen to the podcast on Spotify | Apple | Google | Acast | Stitcher Life under lockdown in Italy: This episode of EU Confidential leads off with a conversation with Silvia Sciorilli-Borrelli in Rome about how …

March 12, 2020 1:36 pm CET

Erdoğan to visit Brussels amid migration standoff

Turkey wants to revise its deal with the EU to manage the flow of migrants.

March 7, 2020 12:44 pm CET

Russia, Turkey agree ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib province

Putin and Erdoğan make announcement after Moscow talks.

March 5, 2020 8:04 pm CET

Blame Europe, not just Turkey, for migration deal collapse

Chaos on Turkish-Greek border is also the result of Brussels’ failure to deliver on its side of 2016 deal.

March 5, 2020 6:18 pm CET

EU Confidential #142, presented by Goldman Sachs: Europe in crisis mode — Super Tuesday — Syrian doctor Amani Ballour

Listen to the podcast on Spotify | Apple | Google | Acast | Stitcher From Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London, we break down responses to the coronavirus across Europe. How are politicians and the general population …

March 5, 2020 3:56 pm CET

Bullets don’t deter migrants at Turkish-Greek border

Turkey says one man was killed by live fire from the Greek side, a claim rejected by Athens.

March 4, 2020 8:45 pm CET

EU diplomats fear escalation in Syria more than refugee surge

The big worry in Brussels is an open conflict between Turkey and Russia.

February 28, 2020 8:15 pm CET
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