Understanding Europe

Germany is hoping that new policies for foreign workers will attract highly skilled migrants | Photo: Felix Kästle/picture alliance/dpa
From file: Police stop in May 2017, near the French-Italian border | Photo: Mehdi Chebil
Refugees in Germany can be sure that their basic needs are covered | Photo: Hannes P Albert/dpa/picture alliance
The number of refugees arriving in Italy has risen dramatically this year | Photo: Lapresse/dpa/picture alliance
Posters with pictures of missing migrants are attached to a container at Serbia's border with Hungary near a makeshift camp for migrants in Horgos, Serbia | Photo: Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo