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Photo used for illustration: Oxford Street in London, UK | Photo: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire
Portugal's government has decided it would be willing to pay towards the European Solidarity mechanism rather than accept 420 asylum seekers. Luis Montenegro is Portugal's Prime Minister | Photo: Rita Franca / SOPA / Zuma Press Wire / Associated Press
A half-submerged deflated dinghy used by Syrian refugees to cross the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos in March 2016 | Photo: Guillaume Pinon/NurPhoto/picture alliance

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File photo: Bodies retrieved from the sea placed inside a hangar in Lampedusa after the October 3, 2013 shipwreck | Photo: ARCHIVE/ANSA/FRANCO LANNINO
A migrant eviction operation in the Porto Vecchio area of Trieste | Photo: ANSA/MICOL BRUSAFERRO
File photo used for illustration: State Security Forces in Iran | Photo: ZUMA Wire/IMAGO

Understanding Europe

File photo used as illustration: In Sweden, authorities have launched additional integration measures to try and address employment for migrants in the capital Stockholm | Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/picture alliance
File photo used for illustration: Dozens of migrants in Lampedusa waiting to be transferred to other cities in Italy | Photo: Elio Desiderio / ANSA
File photo used as illustratino: Germany tightened borders and expanded its checkpoints, but 2025 showed an increase in visa approvals through regular channels | Photo: stadtratte/Shotshop/picture-alliance