Germany was expecting more than 10,000 new refugees to arrive during the course of Monday (September 7). Migrants and refugees received a warm welcome after arriving on a train from Austria to […]
Far-right group sours refugee welcome in Dortmund
Not everyone in Germany is offering the arriving refugees a warm welcome. In Dortmund far-right extremists staged a protest at the city’s central station.
Willkommen in München: migrants arrive in Germany
The first trainloads of migrants travelling from Hungary via Austria have arrived in the German city of Munich. Bayern Munich’s Javi Martinez went to the train station to give refugees shirts and […]
Hooligans vs refugees: Clashes at Budapest train station
Clashes broke out at Budapest train station on Friday as football hooligans pelted refugees with smoke bombs & fireworks; refugees responded with plastic bottles and shoes.
Is the UK doing enough to help refugees?
Shocking images of a refugee toddler drowned and washed ashore have gone around the world. There’s outrage – but what next? Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis spoke to Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative for […]
If We Rescued the Banks We Can Save Refugees, Merkel Says
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany must respond to the European refugee crisis with the same resolve it showed in rescuing banks and her government will spend billions of euros to handle the […]
Joschka Fischer: Breaking Europe’s Migration Paralysis
By Joschka Fischer, Germany’s foreign minister and vice-chancellor from 1998 to 2005 and a leader in the German Green Party for almost 20 years For many centuries, Europe was a continent plagued […]
Mayor of Barcelona: We want cities that are committed to human rights and to life, cities of which we can be proud
By Ada Colau Ballano, mayor of Barcelona, Spain The day before yesterday 50 people died by suffocation in the hold of a ship. Yesterday more than 70 people were found dead inside […]
European migrant crisis: Germany expects record 800,000 asylum requests in 2015
Germany expects to receive up to 800,000 asylum-seekers in 2015, a new record, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday, as he urged action from the European level on the crisis.
Scruffy Jeremy Corbyn winds up Tories in 1984
A preview to tonight’s playout – one from the vaults – Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected MP for Islington North, gets some grief for his dress sense, and hands some out too. We’re […]