According to the latest UN figures, Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria has already resulted in at least 176,000 people being displaced, about half of whom are children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory1
Authorities in Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia and Croatia have dismantled an organization that allegedly smuggled migrants from the Balkans to EU countries like Italy.
A two-year-old child has died after a boat carrying 34 migrants collided with a patrol boat off the Greek island of Kos. One Syrian man is still missing according to the Greek coast guard.
Since the beginning of the year, Germany has deported nearly 17,000 people. The vast majority of them were moved to to EU countries, following the Dublin Regulation.
A medical charity found that only 44% of foreign farmworkers it treated in the southern Italian area of Foggia had a regular job contract.