Immigration

Facing criticism for erecting a razor-wire fence and forcibly moving people to camps, prime minister Viktor Orban says he is defending Europe’s “Christian identity”.

The heart-breaking images of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach have reverberated around the world, but will they lead to a change in British attitudes towards the refugee crisis?

The father of a Syrian child who died trying to reach Europe has described how he fought to save his family after being abandoned by a people smuggler.

Four children including a baby girl were among 71 refugees found dead in the back of a lorry left abandoned at the side of a motorway in Austria, police say.

The unrelenting tragedy of people trying to reach a better life is laid bare once again, as hundreds of people are feared to have died when two boats capsized off the coast of Libya.

Up to 50 refugees are found dead in a parked lorry in eastern Austria. On the scene Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum says there’s a “terrible” stench of death.

Despite a Tory pledge to bring net migration to the UK down to 100,000, new figures show it has reached record levels.

Germany has finally publicly acknowledged that one of the cornerstones of EU migration management policy – the Dublin procedure – does not work any more.

British Home Secretary Theresa May signs a deal with her French counterpart in Calais and announces enhanced security measures to counter attempts by migrants to enter the UK illegally.

Struggling to cope with thousands of refugees and migrants passing through the country, Macedonia’s government declares a state of emergency on its southern and northern borders.

The vessel will replace the football stadium where violence broke out earlier this week. The Greek island has hundreds of migrants, many fleeing war, arriving everyday.

The government announces a crackdown on illegal workers employed in the UK as the Calais migrant crisis continues.

With 200 of a group of 700 migrants feared to have drowned in the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy a UN expert warns against thinking of migrants as “aliens from another world”.

A boat carrying hundreds of people capsizes off the Libyan coast and there are reports of a “significant number of casualties”.

Britain to send sniffer dogs and more fencing to Calais as the prime minister says disruption could last throughout the summer