European migrant crisis

Europe's top court has dismissed a legal action by Hungary and Slovakia, which challenged a system that required them to take in refugees. Above, migrants wait to be rescued by a ship in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast last month.

EU Court Rejects Bid By Hungary And Slovakia To Avoid Taking Migrants

5:15pm September 06, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The countries challenged a quota system adopted by the EU to help Italy and Greece during the 2015 migration crisis. Hungary's foreign minister vowed to fight any imposed relocation of refugees.

Migrants rest after being rescued in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the port of Tarifa, on Wednesday.

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Spain Rescues Nearly 600 People At Sea As Migration Patterns Change

11:23am August 17, 2017

by James Doubek

Authorities rescued 593 people in one day Wednesday. The number of migrants arriving in Spain by sea is up sharply from last year, and the number arriving in Greece has dramatically fallen.

A French police officer oversees the evacuation of a makeshift camp in Paris on Tuesday. The camp, one of several set up by migrants and refugees around the French capital, held hundreds of people in degraded conditions for several weeks.

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Police Evict Up To 1,600 Migrants From Makeshift Camp In Paris

5:41pm May 09, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Authorities broke down camps that had arisen near a refugee center, citing unhealthy conditions and resettling residents. Meanwhile, the U.N. warns of tragedy unfolding in the Mediterranean.

More than 5,000 migrants are reported to have drown while crossing the Mediterranean to Europe this year. Conflict in Libya, flimsier craft, and weather are cited as factors for a rise in deaths from sea crossings.

U.N.: 5,000 Migrants Died In Sea Crossings In 2016

6:51pm December 23, 2016

by Jason Slotkin

More than 100 are feared dead following the latest shipwreck Thursday. It's believed more have died while crossing the Mediterranean this year than in previous years.

A woman from Afghanistan walks by a workshop at the shelter where they live in Sarstedt, Germany, in February.

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Finding Europe Untenable, More Migrants Return To Their Home Countries

6:17pm September 23, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

A report finds more than 30,000 migrants have voluntarily left Germany since January. The top three destinations were Albania, Afghanistan or Iraq.

Members of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and SOS Méditerranée distribute food to migrants and refugees aboard the rescue ship Aquarius on May 25, a day after a rescue operation off the Libyan coast.

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Doctors Without Borders Rejects EU Funds Over Migrant Policies

11:44am June 17, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The aid group explained the decision by criticizing the EU's deal with Turkey to deport migrants who reach Europe. "We cannot take funds from those who do so much harm," the organization said.

Police officers patrol among tents during evacuation operations Tuesday at the Idomeni camp near the Greek-Macedonian border.

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PHOTOS: Greece Begins Evacuating Thousands Of Asylum-Seekers From Camp

1:04pm May 24, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Migrants and refugees have waited for months at the makeshift camp near Idomeni. They hoped to cross into Macedonia, but the border has been shut. Now they're being transferred to camps farther south.

Men carry a coffin during the arrival of migrants and refugees in the port of Messina following a rescue operation at sea by the Italian Coast Guard ship "Diciotti" on March 17 in Sicily. After several quiet weeks, March saw a pickup in the flow of migran

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EU Efforts To Stop Migrant Smuggling Are 'Failing,' U.K. Committee Says

12:44pm May 13, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Europe's Operation Sophia isn't disrupting Libyan smuggling "in any meaningful way," a House of Lords report says. In fact, the report found, the operation may be putting migrants in danger.

Turkish gendarmerie carry the bodies of refugees away from the beach. At least 35 people drowned, including at least five children.

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Boat Sinks En Route To Greece, Killing At Least 37 Migrants

2:17pm January 30, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

A 56-foot boat packed with more than 100 migrants sank shortly after departing Turkey for the island of Lesbos, just a few miles away. At least 10 children, including four toddlers or infants, died.

Tents dot the scrub brush in the dunes at "The Jungle," a camp in Calais, France, that houses about 6,000 migrants.

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For Migrants In France, Life In 'The Jungle' Has Changed

4:19pm November 05, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

NPR Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley says the squalid camp where migrants live in the rough in the dunes of Calais has transformed.