3+ week, 1+ day ago   (253+ words) Spain and Italy vowed to press ahead with their political standoff over migration policies by continuing border checks on each other’s arrivals despite sharing no land border. Meanwhile, on El Trampolín beach, hundreds of migrants sleep on cardboard boxes. A…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (738+ words) Europe’s wildfires are starting earlier, spreading further north and threatening more densely populated areas. Crisis Management Commissioner Hadja Lahbib warned that the continent is entering a new era of more dangerous fires, as European lawmakers clashed over the role of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1159+ words) Fall ill on holiday in another EU country, and the bill is yours to pay first. Patients then wait an average of 69 days to get their money back from home. Lawmakers now want member states to settle up between themselves…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (337+ words) An asylum seeker settled in Germany could soon be sent back to Italy, the country where they first set foot in Europe. Eight EU states have quietly revived that rule. Rome is struggling to cope, and it is far from…...