Calais bulldozers endanger effective refugee infrastructure
Mar 09, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The current plight of refugees in Europe is harrowing enough. Yet the French authorities are making the situation worse. They are dismantling the southern section of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, laying the ground for...
Here's how to counter the 'impending shortage' of homes for asylum seekers
Mar 07, 2016 22:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We urgently need to rethink the way we receive asylum seekers in the UK. Earlier in the year, it emerged that asylum seekers in the Middlesborough area were suffering from racist abuse, apparently as a result of living in...
Migration evidence shows how badly the EU needs to rethink its strategy
Mar 07, 2016 22:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
European leaders continue to be stumped by the so-called migration crisis. Fences are going up in the east and warnings are being issued that there is no more room. But people keep coming. Europes agenda on migration is...
Briferendum series: France issues migrant threat upon Brexit
Mar 03, 2016 11:46 am UTC| Commentary
Fear show is not just over. France has issued fresh threats that Britain would face if voters choose to leave in June 23rd referendum. It has shown two fear card at the moment - migrants and red carpet. If Brexit is...
How Macedonia found itself at the centre of Europe's refugee crisis
Mar 01, 2016 18:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Distressing scenes have been unfolding on Macedonias border with Greece, where police have been using tear gas on refugees attempting to break through a razor wire fence designed to keep them out. Given the recent tone...
Migrant crisis: Schengen under threat
Feb 29, 2016 08:46 am UTC| Commentary
Europes prized Schengen area, which is a passport free travel zone, highly critical to European integration is clearly under threat as Austria and other nine Balkan states too unilateral decision to choke migrant flows by...
Migrant crisis: Iron Chancellor’s iron will and single plan
Feb 29, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Commentary
When the Migrant crisis came into focus, we strongly suggested to our readers this crisis is likely to reshape Europe, more than it did during the debt crisis and it would also make the immigration key arguments in...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight