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Syria’s brutal civil war, which has been raging for years, seemed even farther away.

Finland was the only European Union state to abstain from this week’s vote about relocating asylum seekers across the member countries. At the same time, the chancellor emphasized that European standards for accommodation, care and asylum processing must be respected.

Meanwhile, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report – released on Monday -accused the police in Macedonia of violence and ill-treatment of refugees streaming into the country from Greece on their way to northern Europe.

An emergency summit by European Union leaders is also scheduled for Wednesday.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his “personal initiative” would see “generous” European Union quotas to bring in refugees from crisis-hit regions and spread them around the continent.

Czech personalities linked to the November 1989 overthrow of the communist regime have called on the government, in a letter released to CTK, to meet its European commitments and reassess its “negativist” approach to the redistribution of refugees among EU members....

One suggestion is for Greece, which has comprehensively failed to secure its borders, to hand over their border-control responsibilities to other more capable nations – a role for which Hungary has volunteered itself, reports N-TV.de. “When a government loses control...

A migration expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Jean-Christophe Dumont, said that it’s costlier up front to integrate refugees than other categories of immigrants, because they often need language and vocational training as well as...

It also urged the government to ensure the provision of monetary funds and a legal framework for the country to defend its border, using all possible means.

Ministers in Brussels have voted by a majority to accept quotas to distribute people across Europe.

Germany, which expects to admit 800,000 refugees this year, gave a nod to the Swiss model last week when Chancellor Merkel’s federal government agreed with German regional administrations on distributing refugees across the country and creating a network of centers to...

Several hundred asylum-seekers are camping out at the Turkish border with Greece, hoping that a meeting in Brussels will produce an agreement to let them into the European Union.

The summit was called with different purposes in mind, but by the time Balkan leaders reached Austria it was obvious that the refugee situation was more urgent than infrastructure deals. But critics will be disappointed that more decisive action was not taken, given the scale of...

More than 378,000 migrants have entered Europe this year, including over 256,000 crossing the sea to Greece and almost 120,000 braving the Mediterranean to reach Italy, according to the worldwide Organization for Migration. All member states except Britain, Denmark, and Ireland...

A special train transporting 800 arrived near Zagreb from the border early on Thursday, but thousands more were waiting for trains in baking sun at a tiny station near the Serb frontier.