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...
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...
Lucy P. Marcus: The Business Case for Europe’s Refugees
In the face of the largest influx of refugees into Europe in decades, the responses and policy proposals from the European Union and its member governments have varied enormously, and the debate has become More...
Daniel Gros, Director of Center for European Policy Studies: Europe Under Siege?
Many Europeans feel like their countries are under assault, as huge numbers of migrants flow across their borders. Whether they are being exposed to refugees firsthand, or just seeing images of them splashed More...
Vanessa Selbst, top female pro poker player, to lead charity event for Urban Justice Center
Vanessa Selbst has spent the last seven years slaying her competition at the poker table. Now she wants to eradicate social injustice.Implausible? Not for the Brooklyn native who is not only the highest earning More...
IsraAID sending team to help refugees in Europe
Streams of desperate refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East, Asia and Africa will soon get a helping hand from IsraAID , a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Israel in 2001 to More...
Netanyahu rejects calls to offer asylum for Syrian refugees
Israel is not indifferent to the human tragedy of the refugee crisis but is small and cannot simply throw open its doors to the flood, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly cabinet meeting, More...
Israeli NGO Heads to Europe to Assist Migrants
Streams of desperate refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East, Asia and Africa will soon get a helping hand from IsraAID, a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Israel in 2001 More...
First refugees arrive from Hungary after Austria and Germany open borders
The first of thousands of refugees reached Austria early on Saturday morning after busloads left Hungary in a sudden exodus when the Austrian and German governments agreed to receive them. About 1, 200 More...
Bayern Munich open up club to refugees; donate $1.1 million for classes and hot meals
GERMAN club Bayern Munich pledged yesterday to donate €1 million to refugee projects and provide German classes and hot meals to victims of the ongoing crisis. Germany is currently experiencing More...