The devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria has reportedly sparked resentment towards millions of Syrian refugees in the country, with some being allegedly being accused of looting amid the destruction and chaos.
As Sweden assumes the EU presidency, plans for a joint migration policy between member states face a huge setback. Meanwhile Denmark's new left-right coalition government looks to ease some of the country's harsh migration policies.
Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in Italy's election, and is set to become Italy's first female prime minister. This is expected to be the most right-wing government since World War Two, and will likely mean a strict anti-immigrant course.
As Italy gears up for the general election on September 25, a right-wing coalition government between the far-right Brothers of Italy, the League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia is looking ever more likely to come out as the winners of the race. This could have major consequences for Italy's migration policy.
Austria is intensifying its crackdown on irregular immigration, launching a new campaign in a bid to deter potential migrants from countries including Morocco, Tunisia, India and Serbia.
The brutal murder of a 13-year-old girl in Austria is at the center of a political debate on deportations to Afghanistan. Rights groups have accused the government of instrumentalizing the crime.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he wants a total stop to immigration for two years. The controversial leader also refered to armies of migrants attempting to reach Europe.
On a campaign poster, Spanish far-right party Vox falsely claimed that unaccompanied underage migrants receive ten times as much state aid as pensioners. Now prosecutors are looking into whether Vox committed a hate crime.
Authorities said the main suspect in the murder of Walter Lübcke had likely stabbed an Iraqi refugee two years prior. Prosecutors said the far-right militant had tried to kill the refugee in a "sneak attack."
A court in southeastern France on Thursday sentenced the president of the far-right anti-migrant group Generation Identity, its spokesman and a third person to six months in prison for a spectacle-like expedition in the Alps to stop migrants.
Germany's domestic intelligence service has identified the country's Identitarian movement as an extremist entity. The group, which claims to defend European identity through ethnopluralist ideology, has gained traction.
As the investigation of the killing of Walter Lübcke intensifies, Cologne's mayor and several other German politicians have had their lives threatened. Police say the threats likely also stem from right-wing extremists.