©ANSA This archive picture shows a migrant at the border between Hungary and Serbia. According to a new report published by rights watchdog Oxfam, refugees on the Western Balkan route have been beaten, imprisoned and deprived of fo1

Croatia, which is part of the EU but not the Schengen zone, will from Friday be complying with the new EU rules on stiffer, detailed border controls along Europe's internal and external borders.

Living in abandoned wagons near Thessaloniki's railway station, refugees squeeze into tiny holes inside freight trains as they try to sneak out of Greece. DW's photojournalist Dimitris Tosidis met them in Thessaloniki.

The devastating war and the dream of a better life in the West made many people leave Syria. However, more and more Syrians are now choosing to settle in Egypt and live a little less affluent life, but in the culture that is close t1