Migrant Crisis

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen: “I felt hurt and left alone: as a woman and as a European.” Photograph: Olivier Hoslet

‘It happened because I am a woman’: von der Leyen speaks of Turkey snub

Naomi O’Leary

European Commission president blames sexism for second-rank treatment in Ankara

Why are we forcing refugees to risk their lives crossing Channel?

Why are we forcing refugees to risk their lives crossing Channel?

Hope-fuelled treks from horror to reach UK show how security blocks off options

Playing immigration card will not pay off in general election

5:26 Playing immigration card will not pay off in general election

Protests over direct provision centres likely to remain localised

Europe’s policy on refugees has departed from core values

Europe’s policy on refugees has departed from core values

Decent camps and sea rescue of migrants are EU’s duty and innately morally right

Racist direct provision system a time bomb for Irish society

Racist direct provision system a time bomb for Irish society

What we are witnessing now is what happens when governments refuse to lead

European and Libyan authorities accused after 130 migrants drown

3:11 ‘Events show death at sea not an accident,’ says group that takes calls from vessels in distress

Coastguard returns over 4,000 intercepted in Mediterranean Sea to Libya

Desperate refugees face uncertain future in poorly-run, unsafe detention centres

Biden dislikes the ‘c’ word but migration issue becomes an early crisis

Administration struggles to cope as over 100,000 migrants apprehended in February alone at border

Biden charges Harris with stemming migrant numbers at US-Mexico border

Vice-president to work with Mexican officials after surge in children crossing border

Malian toddler’s death highlights perils of Canaries migrant route

Two-year-old dies despite being revived after being picked up by rescue boat

‘Lives are at stake’: EU urges Bosnia to act to shelter migrants amid freezing conditions

Some 3,000 people are living rough near border in situation dubbed ‘humanitarian disaster’

Libya: coronavirus has deadly impact on life-saving evacuations

Pandemic has reduced international attention paid to humanitarian crisis

At least 140 Europe-bound migrants drown off Senegal, says UN

More favoured routes, including through Libya or Algeria, now blocked off by tougher controls

Two children among dead after migrant boat sinks off French coast

Children aged five and eight and two adults die as more than a dozen others hospitalised

Direct provision: Keep private sector asylum-seeker facilities – report

4:17 Advisory group warns current system remains under ‘significant strain’

Refugees locked up for two years in Libya call for evacuation

Migrants continue to endure arbitrary and indefinite detention in dire living conditions

Refugees experience ‘catalogue of cruelty’ when intercepted and returned to Libya

3:04 Amnesty says 8,500 men, women and children returned to Libya this year were locked up, ‘disappeared’ or sent to detention centres

The Irish Times view on the EU migration plan: old wine in a new bottle

It’s not clear that new proposals would end inhumane bottlenecks like Moria, effectively a prison camp for refugees

EU unveils plan to overhaul migration

Bid to break deadlock between countries over how to manage arrivals into the bloc criticised as pandering to anti-immigration governments

EU to propose quick deportation of failed asylum seekers

3:11 Time limits needed for how long people can spend in reception centres – commissioner

Greek police move Lesbos migrants into tent camp after Moria fire

New temporary tent camp at Kara Tepe ready to take in at least 5,000 people

Germany to take in 1,500 Moria camp migrants after fire

Plan divides public opinion and generates tension inside Merkel’s ruling CDU party

Greek PM promises permanent migrant centre after Lesbos fire

Mitsotakis vows to replace Moria facility for 12,000 and turn ‘problem into opportunity’

European states to take in 400 children after Moria camp fire

Germany says it will accept up to 150 minors despite cities saying they can take in more

Thousands of migrants sleep on road in Lesbos after fires destroy Moria camp

Greek government says housing will take days as some test positive for Covid-19

Fires force thousands to flee from Greek migrant camp

Prime minister warns asylum seekers will not be allowed leave Lesbos for mainland

Hundreds of Rohingya land in Indonesia after months at sea

Wooden boat carrying passengers including 181 women and 14 children arrives in Aceh

I have faced hostility from my community since helping refugees

Tell Me About It: I’m fed up with the intolerance and considering moving to a different city

Europe doesn’t care about black lives, activists say, as hundreds abandoned at sea

United Nations agencies call for a safe port to be granted to rescue ships

Migrant boat bursts into flames off southern Italian coast

Vessel caught fire as Italian naval ship was taking people on board

Coast guard answers distress call from Banksy-funded boat sheltering 200 people

UN refugee agency urges nations to take in hundreds of migrants stranded at sea

Why are we forcing refugees to risk their lives crossing Channel?

Hope-fuelled treks from horror to reach UK show how security blocks off options

Germany feels quiet pride five years on from refugee crisis

Berlin Letter: What is striking about arrival of 1.2m people is not what failed, but how much worked

At least 45 African migrants die off Libya in worst shipwreck of 2020

Some 37 rescued but five children are among the dead after vessel’s engines explode

Sudanese boy (16) trying to reach Britain found dead on French beach

Boy had disappeared at sea, says French minister, as Patel criticises smugglers

Hundreds of children returned to Libya from Mediterranean in 2020

Dire condition of Libyan migrant detention centres condemned by human rights groups

UK and France working on plan to halt migrant Channel crossings

Home Office minister says measures being considered to make route unviable

4,000 migrants reach UK this year by crossing English Channel in small boats

Families with young children among hundreds of people who came ashore near Dover this week

UK armed forces to help deal with migrants crossing channel

Hundreds of people have embarked on the hazardous 33km crossing in recent days

Sudanese refugees protest in Niger desert camp

EU spending hundreds of millions in countries such as Niger to stop flow of migrants

Canada’s federal court rules asylum pact with US violates human rights

More than 50,000 have illegally crossed Canada-US border to file refugee claims over past four years

Body floating for weeks in Mediterranean highlights ongoing drownings

‘The last bit of dignity that the EU had left has drowned with these people’

Migrant (39) who failed to reach Europe dies in Libyan detention centre

A growing list of refugees and migrants have died after being forced back to Libya

Multilingual videos to better inform Ireland’s migrants on Covid-19

Foreign nationals in meat plants and living in direct provision still lack details on virus – campaigner

Fleeing poverty, hunger and political turmoil on the road to Lima

Since 2015, some 5m people have fled Venezuela’s political turmoil. Many end up in Peru

Inside the smuggler’s warehouse: Africa’s 21st-century slave trade

In Libya, migrants pay smugglers to get them to Europe. Instead, they are tortured, raped, killed

Child dies in fire in Greek migrant camp

Fire burns through two containers used as living quarters by people in Moria camp in Lesbos

Hungary feels vindicated by Europe’s tough line on migrants

Balkan route ‘closed’ as Orban hails growing focus on border security

EU refuses to fork out further cash for Turkey migration deal

Brussels condemns Ankara use of migrants for ‘political purposes’ at Greek-Turkish border

Cypriots row over borders amid migrant and coronavirus fears

President criticised for closing gates between south and north for first time since 2003

Migrants used as pawns as EU takes a hard line

4:30 Europe Letter: Greek-Turkish border crisis couched in talk of ‘shields’ and ‘protection’

EU pledges €700m in aid for Greece to stop migrants crossing from Turkey

2:21 Border agency announces ‘rapid border intervention’ in response to Athens appeal

EU praises Greece as ‘shield’ after Turkey opens border

Bloc leaders announce financial support as UN questions Greece’s suspension of asylum applications

The Irish Times view on EU-Turkey tensions: refugees caught in the middle

Although Turkey denies it has changed its policy, the signals sent by Erdogan to desperate refugees speak volumes about what appears to be his real intention

Lesbos residents exhausted by crisis turn anger on migrants

Ugly scenes as Greek islanders say they shoulder disproportionate share of migrant burden

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People reach out for aid packages in Tovarnik, Croatia. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town, with people trampling and falling on each other amid the chaos, as more than 2,000 men, women and children were stuck at the local train station for hours in blazing heat and sun, waiting to board trains and buses for transport to refugee centres. Photograph: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP

Irish Times Poll Attitudes to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean

People force their way through police lines at Tovarnik station, Croatia, to board a train to Zagreb on on Thursday. Migrants are now diverting to Croatia from Serbia after Hungary closed its border with Serbia, with the majority of them trying to reach Germany. Photograph:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Migrant crisis: stampede in Croatia

Hungarian police use tear gas as people tried to cross from Serbia into Hungary at a border crossing near Horgos, northern Serbia, on Wednesday. Hungary has now closed its borders with Serbia. Potograph: Tamas Soki/EPA

Migrant crisis: Hungarian riot police fire tear gas at Serbian border

A migrant drinks water as he waits with hundreds of others to complete a registration procedure by the police at a stadium on the Greek island of Kos on August 12th, 2015. Photograph: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images

Migrant crisis on Greek island of Kos

French gendarmes try to stop migrants on the Eurotunnel site in Coquelles near Calais. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Calais migrant crisis

Boat People A special report on migrants risking death to reach Europe

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