Germany agrees to take 1,500 migrants from Greece following a devastating fire at the Moria Refugee Camp on the island of Lesbos. 2020-09-15
A speedboat carrying 15 migrants sinks off the coast of Demre, Turkey. Nine people are killed and one person is reported missing. 2018-06-3
Rescuers recovered 8 bodies and saved 1400 migrants adrift on the Mediterranean Sea today. 2016-11-22
Hungary is to hold a referendum on whether to accept mandatory EU quotas for relocating migrants. 2016-02-24
Serbia closes its southern border with Macedonia to migrants from countries not affected by war as part of measures to prevent illegal immigration. 2016-02-19
The Greek coast guard and the European Union border agency Frontex, in six separate operations, rescue a total of 383 migrants attempting to sail from Turkey to the eastern Greek islands. 2015-11-7
Turkey's Anadolu Agency reports that 12 migrants have drowned in the Aegean Sea while trying to get to Europe. 2015-10-17
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that the United States will accept 85,000 refugees from the world in 2016, up from this year's 70,000 refugees, and will increase to 100,000 refugees in 2017. 2015-09-20
Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanović says Croatia will 'force' Hungary to accept migrants by sending them to the Hungarian border. Hungary responded angrily calling Milanović "pathetic" and accused Croatia of human smuggling. 2015-09-19
Seven thousand migrants arrive in Croatia with the President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović placing the army on standby. 2015-09-17