“The dominant issue in the campaign has been asylum seekers and migration policy."
Slovenia's interior minister says the tiny country cannot take the 5,000 people proposed by Croatia because only 1,500 a day are allowed to pass into neighboring Austria.
The German chancellor's visit to Turkey comes just days after the Middle Eastern country rebuffed a joint action program to tackle the region's refugee crisis.
Henriette Reker runs Cologne’s social affairs and integration department and is in charge of making room for thousands of migrants fleeing violence in the Middle East.
Since Hungary closed its border Friday to refugees more than 5,000 have entered Croatia.
According to some reports, the EU is ready to offer Turkey, whose porous border serves as a gateway to Europe, up to $3.4 billion in aid to stem the flow of refugees.
Despite receiving temporary accommodations, at least half of the 1,900 unaccompanied refugee minors who arrived in Trelleborg left without notifying officials.
At least two million Syrian refugees currently live in Turkey and the country has made strides to accommodate them — but Europe needs to pitch in.
Comments about refugees from former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski of Poland drew fire from some of his political adversaries, who compared him to Adolf Hitler.
The U.N.'s top human rights official said the Syrian refugee debate echoed prewar rhetoric that led the world to turn its back on Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.
Leaders of the right-wing, anti-Islam group accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of turning the country into a “jungle camp” through her open-door policy for refugees.
Germany and the European Commission are talking about implementing a so-called solidarity tax, which could help alleviate the effects of Europe's refugee crisis.
A German politician has threatened to take the government to court over Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy.
The first group of refugees left for Sweden Friday under the plan, which aims to relocate 160,000 asylum-seekers across the EU over the next two years.
As of December 2014, Spain had about 5,800 refugees and 7,500 asylum seekers living in the country.
The anti-trafficking mission marks a shift from a surveillance-and-rescue phase, and now involves the interception and seizure of traffickers' vessels.
Ponta also said he was in favor of boosting the aid allowance for migrants.
The Turkish president is on a two-day state visit to Belgium where he will hold key talks with EU officials, who are seeking his help to stem the flow of refugees.
The city is expecting 63 Syrians from refugee camps in Lebanon and Iraq, who are due to arrive in Scotland, by the end of this month.
Officials estimated that approximately 500 refugees were entering the German city of Hamburg on a daily basis.
The Aegean Sea crossing where a woman and child died overnight has also been the site of the deaths of more than 3,000 people this year.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to contribute $1.6 billion in aid to assist Syrian and Iraqi refugees, and to usher in peace and development in the Middle East and Africa.
