Europe News
|
By AFP
Rome -
Scores of migrants were feared missing off the Libyan coast, the IOM said Saturday after the Italian navy flew three survivors to the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia's parliament voted Thursday against sending delegates or paying contributions to the Council of Europe, increasing the risk of ultimate exclusion from the rights body and the European Court of Human Rights.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Europe is ramping up preparations for the economic blow of a possible "no deal" Brexit, fearing the political crisis in London has killed off hopes of an orderly divorce.
|
|
By AFP
Strasbourg -
More than 100 members of the European parliament have promised to back a delay to Brexit to allow voters to think again, in a letter to British citizens.
|
|
By AFP
Barcelona -
Spanish migrant rescue charity Proactiva Open Arms said Monday that the authorities were preventing its ship from setting sail from Barcelona to save migrants."We are blocked in a port once again.
|
|
By AFP
Budapest -
A Syrian man jailed in Hungary for his role in a border riot in 2015 will be released next week, a court said Friday, ending a controversial case that saw Budapest accused of heavy-handedness.
|
|
By AFP
Oye-plage -
A helicopter swoops over the northern French coast, its spotlight racing across the deserted beach on a freezing January night, looking for migrants who might put out to sea trying to reach nearby England.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Italy's populist coalition has reached agreement on the fate of 10 migrants the country agreed to take from Malta despite the fury of far-right anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
|
|
By AFP
Boulogne-sur-mer -
Laurent Merlin, a French fisherman who plies the Channel coast from his home port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, is not used to his boat being seen as a catch.But twice within the same week he arrived for work to find his vessel vandalised by would-be thieves.
|
|
By AFP
Valletta -
Nearly 50 migrants stranded at sea for weeks aboard two rescue ships arrived in Malta on Wednesday after the island nation reached a deal with other EU member states, ending a standoff that rights groups branded "shameful".
|
|
By AFP
Valletta -
Malta is pushing other European countries to take in around 250 migrants currently in its care before it will allow dozens of people stuck on two rescue boats to disembark, a government source said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Rights activists accused European countries on Friday of a new "record of shame" for refusing to open ports to migrant children and families stranded at sea in the Mediterranean for two weeks.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Rights activists accused Europe on Friday of clinching a new "record of shame" with its refusal to open ports to migrant children and families stranded at sea in the Mediterranean.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
The mayors of three large Italian cities are refusing to obey a controversial anti-immigration law penned by far-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, condemning it as unconstitutional.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
The mayors of three large Italian cities are refusing to obey a controversial anti-immigration law penned by far-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, slamming it as unconstitutional.
|
|
By AFP
Berlin -
A German far-right group has launched a vigilante street patrol in a Bavarian town where four Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers allegedly attacked passers-by last weekend, local authorities said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
The number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter in 2018 over the previous year, to 2,262, the UN refugee agency said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
The Netherlands announced Wednesday it was prepared to welcome some of the 32 migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean, if other countries did the same.
|
|
By AFP
Madrid -
Spanish coastguards rescued 401 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean over the first two days of the new year, they said Wednesday.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
From Edinburgh to Lisbon by way of Berlin, the chilly thrill of a New Year's dip appealed to many looking for a bracing way to ring in 2019. How cold?
|
|
By AFP
Valletta -
A group of 69 migrants on a rickety wooden boat were rescued Sunday off Malta, the navy said, while 49 more were still at sea waiting for a country to allow them to dock.
|
|
By AFP
San Roque -
A charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya docked in Spain on Friday, ending a traumatic journey which saw them spend Christmas at sea and several European nations denying the ship entry.
|
|
By AFP
San Roque -
A charity rescue boat carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya entered Spanish waters Friday morning and was set to berth in a southern port near Gibraltar.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
A civilian ship with 33 migrants aboard rescued off the Libyan coast appealed Sunday for a European port to take them to before the weather turns at Christmas.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Spain on Saturday authorised a ship carrying hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya to sail to its waters after Italy and Malta refused to receive them.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Saturday Italian ports were closed to hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya after a mother and newborn baby were evacuated to Malta.
|
|
By AFP
Madrid -
A migrant group said Friday it had rescued nearly 300 migrants off the coast of Libya over the previous 24 hours."More than 300 people safe on board the #OpenArms," the Proactiva Open Arms organisation tweeted.
|
|
By AFP
Madrid -
Eleven migrants have been found dead in a boat in the sea off southern Spain along with 33 survivors, the Spanish coastguard said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
Undocumented migrants living in makeshift camps in northern France have been subjected to an "unprecedented" violation of their basic rights over the past three years, the country's human rights ombudsman said in a report Wednesday.
|
|
By AFP
Berlin -
Worker-starved Germany decided Wednesday to ease immigration rules to attract foreign job-seekers and replenish its ageing workforce, despite mounting public resistance against new arrivals.
|
apis-386191 apis-386025 apis-386019 apis-385757 apis-385749 apis-385620 apis-385554 apis-385495 apis-385402 apis-385400 apis-385329 apis-385048 apis-385041 apis-384998 apis-384984 apis-384972 apis-384964 apis-384917 apis-384910 apis-384868 apis-384746 apis-384603 apis-384597 apis-384353 apis-384311 apis-384296 apis-384257 apis-384152 apis-384094 apis-384078
Europe Image
Europe according to Greece alphadesigner
The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the Eurozone in the European Union (EU). Daniel ROLAND, AFP/File
Map of human migration out of Africa unknown
Unusual circumstances have brought interest to the woman's death since this rarely happens in the area. Christian Schnettelker
ACTA protest. Truththeory
"Heart of Storm" Libby Coffey
Adonis, a Bosnian pine located in northern Greece is said to be Europe's oldest living thing, say scientists. Dr. Oliver Konter, Mainz/University of Mainz
A delicious duck confit at a Paris cafe
The sculpture art found along Pari's Seine river
A bus driver heating up frozen lock of a bus at the bus station in Klodzko, south-western Poland, 2010.
This 2011 map shows the 27 member states of the European Union in color EU Bookshop
Offshore wind in Europe hit new milestone in 2017, with United Kingdom accounting for half of new capacity. WindEurope
Image of Europe Photoshop Tofs
The frozen shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland United Nations Information Service - Geneva
Europe according to Silvio Berlusconi alphadesigner
Comparison of debt in countries with the Euro as currency
Europe according to Spain alphadesigner
The old Silk Road and the Silk Track have a lot in common. With any luck, the Silk Track will be as successful as its predecessor. Wikimedia Commons
A shot of winter scenery from the train window, winter in Poland, 2010.
|
|
