The European Union is hammering out the terms of new policies to harden its borders as the political uprising in Iran raises ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Scenes of chaos at borders last year led to a breakdown in the public's trust in the capacity of governments to manage the refugee challenge and played into the hands of those who ...

It took Hagos Hadgu 11 traumatic months to travel from Eritrea to his new temporary home in a refugee camp in Sweden. Along the way, he made deals with smugglers, was held captive by terrorists and ...

EADaily, January 12th, 2026. At the end of autumn 2025, 4.33 million Ukrainian refugees who received temporary protection ...

The refugee crisis in Europe was already pushing the European Union toward disintegration when, on June 23, it helped drive the British to vote to Brexit the EU. The refugee crisis and the Brexit ...

To mark International Migrants Day on December 18, RFE/RL’s language services have come together to focus on the migrant and refugee issues most affecting the 23 countries in our broadcast region. You ...

“Europe faces a refugee crisis.” This seems to be the standard media description of the current movement of refugees to Europe—the largest migration to the continent since World War II—with at least a ...

BERLIN: Nearly a decade after fleeing Syria's civil war, Rahaf Alshaar sat on her couch in a leafy suburb of Berlin, sipping Arabic coffee spiced with cardamom. When she, her husband and their three ...

London (CNN) — “I’ve been thinking in the past few years: Will I die away from my country?” Abdulaziz Almashi said, reciting the question that he and millions of displaced Syrians have asked ...

The 1951 Refugee Convention was adopted to ensure the protection of rights by reconciling the interests of refugees with those of the states and communities receiving them, and in parallel, the right ...

People from Ukraine rest at a refugee shelter in a culture house, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Zahony, Hungary February 25, 2022. [Reuters, Bernadett Szabo] ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's future will depend to a large degree on Germany's approach to the migration crisis and other states should show more solidarity by jointly tackling this historic challenge, ...