Swiss voters have rejected a plan to cap the population at 10 million by 2050, with about 53 percent voting no. The proposal aimed to curb immigration in the Schengen country but raised concerns over the potential economic impact.

As countries across the European Union prepare to implement new asylum rules, a center for asylum procedures at the bloc's external borders opens at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport in the German capital.

A court in the UK has sentenced the first two people under a new law for risking the lives of migrants crossing the English Channel. Authorities have expressed relief at seeing the new legal framework at work, hoping it will help st1

The pope visited the port of Arguineguin, a flashpoint of a migration crisis in the Canary Islands. He argued European leaders cannot claim human dignity while allowing the Mediterranean to become an "unmarked grave."