Another arrest has been made in connection with a fatal shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy that killed at least 72 people last month. Meanwhile, there’s growing disagreement about where the remains of the victims should be buried.
The EU has managed to decide on a series of new policies aimed at curbing irregular migration. However, the impact of those policies is likely going to be limited, with the focus on economic migration rather than addressing the root causes of migration.
Back in 2015, employing refugees may have seemed a risky approach for a business in Vienna to take. But it paid off for the Magdas Hotel, which has just moved to the heart of the Austrian capital.
A big step up in requests for asylum last year has put one of the EU's touchiest issues, migration, back in the limelight. One idea is to leverage visa, aid and trade policy to get third countries to take back deportees.
Austria's chancellor has said he would lobby the European Union for €2 billion in funding for Bulgaria to strengthen its border with Turkey. Despite pushback, Bulgaria's president says he's hopeful his country would join the Schengen group of countries in the foreseeable future.
Serbia's increasingly restrictive border policies are having an overall impact on the Balkan migration route. Austrian authorities say they have noted a significant drop of about 70% of people being intercepted while trying to enter the country using irregular means since mid-December.
A new study from the University of Vienna has found that migrants tend to work in precarious jobs at a far higher rate than other citizens. 13% earn so little that they cannot support themselves, despite working, the study found.
Germany and Switzerland have agreed to strengthen police controls to prevent migrants from crossing their common border. The move follows claims that Swiss authorities have been helping irregular migrants to reach Germany and France.
Each night, volunteers pick up migrants stranded outside the gates of Austria's main asylum seeker facility and take them to a shelter where they can eat and sleep. As a national standoff over accommodation continues, the problem of homelessness looms large.
An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl named Leonie. Her dead body was found next to a tree in Vienna last year.
Workers in the village of St. Georgen started taking down 17 white tents housing dozens of migrants on the orders of Mayor Ferdinand Aigner. The move follows a standoff with the federal government over increasing numbers of asylum seekers in Austria.
Two men said to be people smugglers were taken into custody in Hungary on Monday following a car chase in which they opened fire on police. 21 migrants were found inside the suspects' van.