Borders are closing in Europe, for reasons ranging from ongoing crises in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to increasing migratory pressures and the risk of terrorist infiltration. France cites ...

The U.S. defense secretary also said that a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders, before Russia invaded Crimea and eastern ...

EU states along the bloc’s eastern edge have accused the two countries of pushing thousands of people over their borders in recent years as part of a campaign to destabilise Europe. Irregular ...

The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

The figures are in line with the European Union-wide trend but are significantly lower than in countries closer to home. Eerik Purgel, the head of the border guard office of the eastern prefecture, ...

LOBITH, NEAR where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands, has been a border town ever since northern Europe has had borders. Buried nearby lie the remains of a Roman camp that in the first ...

Europe has been a flash point for war among both great and small powers for centuries. Conflicts beginning there have been known to spill over outside Europe, sometimes encompassing nearly the ...

The Eastern Mediterranean route also served as ... and then travel on to France illegally. European border control authorities are observing similar patterns among migrants from Bangladesh ...

The issue has dominated political life in Europe since 2015 ... time irregular arrivals were up last year along the EU’s eastern borders with Belarus. Frontex also said it recorded an 18% ...

The number of people entering the European Union by irregular crossings dropped almost 40 percent in 2024, according to the bloc’s border agency Frontex.