CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours on five Eurostar high-speed trains after reports that migrants were blocking the tracks leading to the tunnel under the English Channel and were attempting to climb aboard. According to
As Europe grapples with its biggest wave of migration since World War Two, the Netherlands is about to toughen its asylum policy by cutting off food and shelter for people who fail to qualify as refugees. Failed asylum seekers would
No job, no future. That is the simple mantra Home Secretary Theresa May is offering as part of her new demand that migrants be banned from the UK unless they have a job lined up. May has chosen a newspaper column to
A truck full of refugees discovered abandoned on an Austrian motorway on Thursday contains more than 70 bodies, the interior ministry said on Friday, announcing an updated death toll. Austrian police had originally put the toll at up to 50
Police in Austria have found a smuggler’s truck to the south of Vienna containing the dead bodies of migrants. Police spoke of at least 20 initial casualties but warned that number could rise. The lorry was found standing on the emergency lane
ROSZKE, Hungary, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A surge in migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, hit Hungary’s southern border on Tuesday, passing through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis
Europe’s most senior unelected official is proud of a borderless EU. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, believes the Schengen area of 26 countries that have removed all shared checkpoints was ‘one of our very greatest achievements’. As more European leaders
A remarkable 86 per cent of citizens think Germany is a “country of immigrants”, and a clear majority want more refugees to come, according to a new social attitudes survey. The so-called political barometer, commissioned by Der Tagespiegel, reveals the scale
Police and soldiers deployed along Macedonia’s southern border with Greece struggled on Saturday to control the numbers of refugees and migrants, many of them fleeing Middle East conflicts, seeking to reach western Europe. Conditions on the frontier were rapidly deteriorating
Officials in Slovakia are refusing to take Muslim migrants as part of the EU’s migrant resettlement plans, claiming that they won’t fit in as the country doesn’t have any mosques. Instead the offer to take 200 Christians from Syria was
The migrant invasion flooding Europe from across the Mediterranean is entirely composed of innocents fleeing wars in Libya, Syria, Sudan and other far-flung parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Really, it is. We know because we are endlessly told by the media
The French cross-Channel rail tunnel operator is seeking €9.7 million ($10.67 million) in compensation for disruption caused by illegal migrants in and around Calais with Britain expected to help foot the bill. Eurotunnel is charging London and Paris after it incurred a security
Civil disobedience by dissatisfied asylum seekers is costing the municipal authorities in Vienna tens of thousands of Euros as they abuse and sabotage public services to voice their feelings. A march on Monday night, organised by left-wing agitators but mostly attended by Vienna’s
The free movement of migrants across the European Union is being challenged by the Czech Republic. Tomas Haisman, director of the Interior Ministry asylum and migration policy section, told journalists in Prague today his country wants a say in the choice of
Italian government officials have threatened to use force to break up a barricade erected by the residents of a wealthy Rome suburb in a bid to keep African migrants out of their neighbourhood. Police have already been ordered to move
German police have seized 63,000 illegals so far this year and believe at least a further 45,000 have slipped the net completely, as mass migration and people smuggling gangs take their toll. Most of the refugees and illegals now arriving
The German police union has spoken out about the volume of refugees flooding into the country, saying tens of thousands of arrivals are going undocumented because they lack the resources to adequately deal the problem. German law required police to
As the Eurotunnel was again closed today by a migrant fatality, a spokesman told Breitbart London that European governments must now work to stop migrants at “their country of origin”. The undersea Eurotunnel railway that links Great Britain to the European mainland
The Hungarian government is offering free flights and a monthly stipend to its young people, many of whom have left the nation to find work elsewhere in Europe, if they return to the country. The programme, called ‘Come Home, Young People’
After forming a government with the support of ‘Denmark’s UKIP’, the new centre-right bloc’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen has travelled to Germany to meet his counterpart and discuss the new border arrangements. Although the Eurosceptic, anti-mass-immigration Danish People’s Party (Dansk
Construction of a new high-security fence to secure France’s migration zone in Calais begins today – thanks to the UK. More than two miles of fence will be built in an effort to stem the chaos caused by thousands of illegal
The Mediterranean migrant crisis is “genocide” according to the mayor of an Italian city on the frontline of the invasion. “We’re living a genocide, and in a few years we Europeans risk being found responsible,” Palermo’s mayor Leoluca Orlando said
Every month the European Parliament migrates to Strasbourg for a few days. The travel connections between the UK and Strasbourg are a nightmare and so I normally drive. Last month as I came back from Strasbourg and got to the
The EU may be a federation without borders but Hungary begs to differ. Fed up with an invasion of asylum seekers entering the country from neighbouring Serbia, Hungary has acted to stem the flow by building a fence to secure its frontier
