Open arms.
EPA/Sven Hoppe
For Bayern Munich, helping refugees isn’t simply a moral obligation it’s good CSR.
Germany is doing most of the heavy lifting.
Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
Europe has long struggled to share the burden fairly and now the situation is at breaking point.
Outside the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary.
Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
It’s not just calling refugees “migrants” that dehumanises them – it’s talking about them as if they’re numbers.
Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader
The free movement of people among Schengen member states is a boon for business and the European economy.
Saying it at last.
Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
In just a few weeks, the people of Europe have been galvanised into supporting the refugees dying to reach their shores.
Is that clear?
Scott Ableman
The new question risks leading voters down an uncertain path.
Not even if I ask really nicely?
EPA/JulienWarnand
With visits to Madrid and Lisbon, the British prime minister, David Cameron, hopes to start the “delivery” stage of his strategy to renegotiate the UK’s new terms of membership to the European Union on…
Migrants from the Middle East wait outside a train station in Budapest on their way across Europe.
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A green card lottery would give so-called economic migrants a legal route to Europe.
Pick me! I’ve got an idea!
PA/Stefan Rousseau
A run down of what each has to say on the top issue of the summer.
Taking the mic. Varoufakis.
Yves Herman/Reuters
Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
Hamilton is shown whispering into Ben Franklin’s ear in Howard Chandler Christy’s depiction of the signing of the Constitution.
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Alexander Hamilton and the policies he pursued as America’s first treasury secretary set the US on a course of national unity. That’s just what Europe needs today.
Did we miss him?
Reuters/Peter Nicholls
The statute of limitations is expiring on some of the charges against the Wikileaks founder – but not all of them.
Testing the boundaries of civility.
UK Ministry of Defence
The UK is angry at Spain for chasing boats into its territory. Enough already.
Migrants running on the shuttle tracks in August.
Etienne Laurent/EPA
France’s policy towards migrants has been to make them invisible – and criminalise their support networks.
Up in flames: the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare in 2014 was a smoke-filled celebration.
REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
South African forensics may provide clues to the 400-year-old mystery of what was smoked in pipes found in Shakespeare’s garden.
EPA/Justin Lane
Surveying the current world order, one might be forgiven for thinking that it is essentially ungovernable. Chaos, conflict and crises seem to be the order of the day. The phrase “international order” seems…
The growing migrant camp known as the “New Jungle”.
Thom Davies
While politicians talk security, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding on the French coast.
No villain.
Ian Langsdon/EPA
When it comes to Europe, Germany can’t win either way.
Who has time for tea with 28 different world leaders?
EPA/Julien Warnad
For US leaders, the UK is both important and not important enough.
Henry James renounced his American citizenship in 1915 in response to his country’s inaction.
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When Henry James renounced his American citizenship in 1915 in response to his country’s inaction, he spearheaded a movement of writers who refused to sit on the sidelines amid turmoil in Europe.