Universities have put their boxing gloves on.
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The decision by the university membership body to campaign for Britain staying in the EU has implications for academics.
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Nobody is doing a great job, but three countries say they have no part to play in the refugee crisis.
Refugees are escorted to especially chartered trains after they arrived at the main train station in Munich.
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How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
Jeremy Corbyn is an advocate of increasing Britain’s intake of Syrian refugees.
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With strong views on NATO and the EU, the new leader of the opposition is bound to ruffle feathers abroad.
Cutting a lonely figure.
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The European Commission president believes more integration and cooperation is the solution to Europe’s many problems. But it’s hard to see this happening.
Hear me now.
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Junker reinforced his mandate to act as a guarantor of EU integration, preserve the unity of the EU and the Eurozone, and to take leadership in addressing the refugee crisis.
The lucky ones: bound for Germany.
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Much of the conventional wisdom among academics over the last decade or so has focused on the convergent trends in European government policies toward both migrants and asylum seekers. Spurred on by European…
An image by Nilufer Demir dominates news coverage.
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Powerful images – like the one of Aylan Kurdi that flooded the Internet last week – can spark political change.
Hackles raised at an anti-migrant protest in Brno, Czech Republic.
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The Czech police were condemned for writing numbers on refugees’ arms – but Central Europe’s problem with outsiders goes much deeper.
Germany is doing most of the heavy lifting.
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Europe has long struggled to share the burden fairly and now the situation is at breaking point.
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The free movement of people among Schengen member states is a boon for business and the European economy.
Newspapers report the death of Aylan Kurdi.
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A devastating picture of a drowned boy has touched viewers and political leaders alike – and could be a turning point in Europe’s spiralling refugee crisis.
Is that clear?
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The new question risks leading voters down an uncertain path.
The scene at Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary.
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Budapest’s main train station has been reopened to refugees – but Hungary’s hateful politics of fear are only getting harsher.
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.
It’s lonely at the top.
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After 206 turbulent days in power, Alexis Tsipras now presides over a coalition in tatters.
Migrants rescued from a boat capsized off the coast of Libya in early August.
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The Dublin laws means states can return migrants to the country where they first arrived in Europe.
Migrants running on the shuttle tracks in August.
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France’s policy towards migrants has been to make them invisible – and criminalise their support networks.
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An important sticking point in TTIP negotiations has US and European representatives fighting over food labels.
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda taking supreme command over Polish armed forces on August 6.
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Andrzej Duda’s Law and Justice party is more anti-Russian and eurosceptic than its main rival.