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# Migration crisis

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# Migrants
'End of playtime': Marine Le Pen wants to ban 'foreigners' from state schools
She later clarified that she only wanted to block education for illegal immigrants.
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Dec 8th 2016, 12:53 PM
# Brussels or Budapest
99.8% of Hungarian voters have rejected EU migrant quotas in 'invalid' referendum
While almost all who voted backed the Government, turnout was short of the 50% threshold.
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Oct 3rd 2016, 7:46 AM
# Migration crisis
Ireland is nowhere near close to settling its share of Syrian refugees
Ireland has pledged to take in 4,000 people by the end of next year and so far about 500 have been accepted.
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Apr 2nd 2016, 8:15 AM
# perilous journey
UN: More than one million refugees have entered Europe in 2015
The vast majority have crossed the Mediterranean and landed in Greece.
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Dec 22nd 2015, 1:53 PM
# Migration crisis
'We need some breathing room' - Sweden is tightening its asylum rules
The Scandinavian country received 80,000 asylum applications in the past two months.
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Nov 24th 2015, 10:42 PM
# slow clap
Cash for underused airports and farms used for motocross: How the EU wasted billions
The EU’s financial watchdog said the ‘error rate’ for spending was over 4% of the union’s budget.
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Nov 10th 2015, 9:56 AM
# no end in sight
The migration crisis far from over as 12,200 people enter Austria in 36 hours
The total is higher than recent days.
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Oct 12th 2015, 8:58 AM
# Refugees
Overcoming opposition, EU approves plan to relocate 120,000 migrants
Ban Ki-Moon appealed to leaders across the 28-nation bloc, urging them to “show leadership and compassion”.
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Sep 22nd 2015, 6:30 PM
# refugee crisis
US commits to taking in 100,000 refugees in 2017
Meanwhile, at least 13 migrants including six children died off the coast of Turkey earlier today.
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Sep 20th 2015, 6:10 PM
# Migration crisis
Refugees 'won't get to choose what country they go to'
“That doesn’t exist anywhere in the world.”
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Sep 13th 2015, 12:22 PM
# Migration crisis
Thousands are fleeing Eritrea - what are they running from?
The country is producing around 4,000 migrants every single month.
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Sep 10th 2015, 6:15 AM
# Not finalised
It's still not clear how many refugees Ireland is taking
A special cabinet meeting will take place this week to discuss Ireland’s response to the migration crisis.
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Sep 8th 2015, 9:10 PM