Aurelie Ponthieu

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A migrant child stands at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni. Photograph: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images
EU and Turkey agree on deal to send refugees back

Irregular migrants arriving in Greece from this Sunday face being returned to Turkey under a new refugee deal agreed by the European Union and Turkey.(...)

A migrant girl at the Greek-Macedonian border. Macedonia confirmed is only allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees through. Photograph: Nake Batev/EPA
Migrants stranded in Greece as Balkan states tighten controls

Thousands of people are massing at the Greece-Macedonia border after Balkan states imposed new restrictions on refugees and migrants trying to reach w(...)

Peter Sutherland: said the migration crisis was a problem “which can only be dealt with collectively, not in isolation to one another”. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
EU agrees to redistribute 40,000 migrants across member states

EU leaders defended their decision not to back mandatory quotas for migrants at a summit of EU leaders, pledging to agree a plan to redistribute 40(...)

A lorry driver in Calais, France gestures at migrants as they try to board lorries bound for the UK on June 25th, 2015. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
EU leaders postpone taking any action on migrant crisis

EU leaders postponed a detailed discussion on how to redistribute migrants across the EU until next month amid continuing opposition among member stat(...)