The decree preventing aid groups from distributing food to migrants in Calais has been deemed as "disproportionate" by a government commissioner who said the ban has "the effect of complicating the access to basic necessities of precarious populations".
A group from the Yazidi minority have been sleeping outside a migrant camp in northern Greece for almost a fortnight. Greek authorities say the facility is full.
Calabria has allocated €10 million to renovate a former industrial complex and to create an environmentally sustainable 'village' for non-EU workers. Many migrants in the region are currently living in precarious housing conditions.
Hundreds of people have been evicted from migrant tent camps in the past 24 hours in what Paris authorities call "sheltering operations." At least two children were among a group forced out of their tents in the latest clearance, activists say.
The Kikinda camp in Serbia is home to around 550 migrants, including around 100 from India. One of them is Kumar, who cooks Biryani for his fellow South Asians.
Officials in Serbia say more people from India have been joining migrants from other South Asian countries in trying to reach the EU by irregular means over the past few months.
Greek police have detained at least four people after a protest against the building of a new migrant camp on the island of Lesbos turned violent.
Local authorities believe that the situation in the tent city for migrants in the Gioia Tauro plain in Calabria, southern Italy, is becoming increasingly dangerous. The facility, which has a maximum capacity of 300, is currently hosting some 350 African migrants, many of whom are farmworkers.
For weeks, migrants on the Greek mainland have been barred from claiming asylum. Locked out of the system, many are forced to sleep outdoors or to go without food – in spite of the freezing winter conditions.
Humanitarian groups say thousands of people living in Greek migrant camps have not been getting enough to eat for months. Local aid workers report having seen children crying because they were so hungry.
Riots break out in several migrant camps in Cyprus and police fired warning shots at a group of migrants in the western resort town of Paphos on Tuesday.
Following the brutal eviction attempt of the 'Old Lidl' camp in Calais, another violent incident took place on January 2. Migrants were forced out of the site in the early afternoon. According to the authorities, the process was to facilitate the evacuation that had not been possible a few days earlier and "if possible, to proceed with arrests."