Europe Migrants crisis

The immigration bill received a large majority in the lower house of the French parliamentImage: Michel Euler/AP photo/picture alliance
Europe

France passes controversial immigration bill

The bill aimed at tightening immigration rules was passed without the need for far-right votes, despite major opposition

FILE PHOTO: General view of the snow-covered mountains of the Bernese Alps, Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau, as seen from Bern, Switzerland October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
Politics

Swiss turn to right at election as immigration fears weigh

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Europe

Poland, Hungary stand alone in opposing EU migration reform

Migrants gather at the hotspot, a reception centre for migrants, ahead of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's visit to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, September 17, 2023. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Europe

EU chief pledges migrant action plan in Italy's Lampedusa

Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel, in the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
World+Biz

More than 300 migrants rescued off Spain's Canary islands

Pope Francis prays in front of the icon of Mary "Salus Populi Romani" (Salvation of the Roman People) at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, in Rome, Italy December 8, 2021. Vatican Media/ Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Pope decries 'stone hearts' of indifference to migrants' pain

Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021. Irek Dorozanski/DWOT/Handout via REUTERS
Europe

Polish police say group of 50 migrants broke through Belarus border