New research published in the journal Nature reveals that more than 1.2 million flow barriers exist on European rivers and that approximately 10% are obsolete.
The leader of far-right Golden Dawn Party Nikos Michaloliakos, pictured in 2014 at the start of a lengthy trial,
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Official policies at the international level and within host countries do not adequately address the challenges posed by forced displacement across the world
Lesbos in state of emergency after fires at the Moria camp.
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Melbourne isn't the only place suffering under a second lockdown. It's happening across the world as the virus surges in countries that were initially successful in flattening the curve.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel at the latest leaders’ summit.
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The health crisis is pushing governments to try to control the movement of people, but migrants continue to arrive in EU reception centres, which are currently experiencing a crisis of tragic proportions.
Residents of the village of Thermi on Lesvos prevent the disembarkation of a boat of refugees and migrants in early March.
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Vital Hasson was born into the Jewish community of Salonica, Greece, a cultural capital of the Sephardic world. After World War II, he was executed for helping the Nazis destroy that community.
SOS Mediterranee team members from the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking approach a boat in distress with 30 people on board in the waters off Libya on Nov. 20, 2019.
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The EU's proposals for relocating migrants is inefficient in measuring whether member states actually have the economic capacity to welcome asylum-seekers.
Xi Jingping with Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Athens.
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Almost 4 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey, which has taken noteworthy steps to integrate them into the country in the past five years. Will Turkey now try to force those refugees back to Syria?
Mass mobilization of citizens and organizations around Brussels-North railway station.
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The 2015 reception crisis had a profound impact on civil society in Europe. A significant set of attitudes and practices emerged that give a sense of what political participation means today.
Migrant workers picking strawberries in Greece live in unhealthy and highly flammable shacks.
Greece is the 10th largest exporter of strawberries in the world, but evidence shows that success is due to captive migrant farm labour who work in precarious, unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
On Samos, new arrivals set up camp where they can.
Gemma Bird