Europe was plunged into crisis in 2015 as more than a million migrants flooded into the continent, making the risky journey across the Aegean to Greece or braving a perilous Mediterranean crossing. A deal with Turkey has stemmed the flow but can the EU agree a common approach to tackling the mass movement of people?
Migrants
A new home in Europe?
Spain offers closest ports as safe haven for migrant vessel
The EU has praised Spain for taking in the NGO vessel Open Arms, which has been denied entry to Italy with over 100 migrants on board.
Rescue trauma haunts Mediterranean migrant rescuers
From one operation to the next, it's not the migrants who are saved but the ones they can do nothing to help that leave the worst mental scars on the Mediterranean's rescue crews
Migrants stranded at sea off Malta to be redistributed around EU
After being at the sea for four days, a group of migrants are finally allowed to enter Malta and will be distributed around the EU countries.
130 migrants forced to remain on docked Italian coastguard vessel
Italy will not allow rescued refugees from the Mediterranean Sea to enter its shores until the European Union clarifies which countries are willing to take them in.
UK’s Boris Johnson pledges post-Brexit migration controls
British leadership hopeful Boris Johnson pledges to introduce a new points-based system to control migration after Brexit, addressing a key issue from the EU referendum
EU asylum influx has eased, but Venezuelan applications sharply up
The asylum claims within the EU have decreased after its peak in 2015. Due to the current political situation in Venezuela however, the number of asylum applications is slowly rising.