Central American nations announce deal on Cuban migrants
Central American nations have reached a deal to let the first of thousands of stranded Cuban migrants continue their journey north toward the United States next month, officials said Monday. The humanitarian More...
Million Migrants Vanished in Britain
David Cameron has been accused of a “migration cover-up” after it emerged that more than a million migrants who have come to the UK in recent years are unaccounted for. Ministers have failed More...
Bomber posed as refugee, French senator says
Paris (CNN) The Syrian refugee crisis just got worse, due to the Paris attacks. Now more than ever, since the Syrian war began 4½ years ago, the crisis can be summed up as damned if you do, damned More...
UN: Almost 220, 000 migrants, a record, reached Europe by sea in October
218, 394 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by sea in October, up from 172, 843 in September, Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, said on Monday. “That More...
New baby for Syrian refugees cheers Israeli aid workers
The couple you’re seeing in the photo snapped by IsraAID volunteer Boaz Arad last month puts a face on the massive wave of refugees whom the Israeli aid organization has been helping in Europe since the first More...
Berkeley Economics and Political Science Prof. Barry Eichengreen: The Crisis Europe Needs
It’s hard to be optimistic about Europe. Last summer, a political cage match between Germany and Greece threatened to tear the European Union apart. In country after country, extremist political parties More...
‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini: The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk
Among today’s geopolitical risks, none is greater than the long arc of instability stretching from the Maghreb to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the More...
Former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer: Europe’s Reality Check
Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world’s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy More...
How Do Americans & Europeans View Immigrants?
A Pew Research survey has revealed that a majority of people in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States think immigrants make a country stronger. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Spain, More...
GEORGE SOROS: Rebuilding the Asylum System
The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political More...