Protesters marched to the Evros river fence at the border between Greece and Turkey on Sunday demanding that it will be demolished to open a safe, legal passage to Europe for the desperate refugees and migrants who risk their lives to enter the EU.
Senior leaders from several European countries called for "More Europe" as the continent is struggling to cope with multiple crises.
While the year 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of China-European Union (EU) diplomatic relations, and the two sides have witnessed a flurry of exchanges of high-level visits, experts upheld that it is also a year that ushered in a new chapter of China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
The year 2015 has seen the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World World II, as exodus of migrants from war-torn Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have been flocking to the continent.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel jointly called for a strong and united Europe on Wednesday in order to address the multiple crises facing the European Union (EU).
Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Monday met a delegation from the European Parliament's largest group, the European People's Party (EPP), led by EPP president Manfred Weber.
When Europe pulls a long face amid a tidal wave of refugees, it is high time for its cross-ocean ally, the United States, to abandon its "wait-and-see" attitude and take concrete actions to solve the acute crisis.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday agreed "on common proposals" to help address the refugees crisis, saying they would soon transmit their joint suggestions to the EU.
A tsunami of men, women and children fleeing their homelands in North Africa and the Middle East continued to overwhelm countries across Europe on Tuesday.
European governments are "sleepwalking into disaster" if they don't adopt a more coordinated response to migration, said the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Anne Brasseur, here Tuesday.
Under pressure from its European neighbors to handle the surge in migrants flows, the French government called for lasting alternatives and to welcome refugees "with dignity."
European solidarity is set to be put to the test as an extraordinary ministerial meeting on migration is to be convened on Sept. 14.
In recent days, the leaders of Italy, Germany, and France have traded barbs over the European Union's handling of the growing migrant crisis. And while the debate may ultimately have an impact on the way the EU addresses the issue, some experts say it may also affect the balance of power in the 28-nation bloc.
Scandinavian airline SAS is set to launch a budget airline next month, the company said on Thursday.
"The door remains open for discussions," declared Monday French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris, after a meeting held following Greek voters rejected creditors' bailout terms in a referendum Sunday.
A European scholar has said that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's presence at an urbanization partnership forum in his recent European tour has shown that the cooperation between EU and Chinese cities was now more concrete.
"I strongly support the idea of China contributing to the Juncker Investment plan," president of ChinaEU Luigi Gambardella told Xinhua in an interview ahead of Monday's 17th China-EU leaders' meeting in Brussels.
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