Many of the almost 100 migrants held in the detention centre at Przemysl, in southeast Poland, have gone on hunger strike, demanding an end to what they see as arbitrary detention, BIRN can confirm. A hunger strike by migrants held in the Przemysl detention centre, which began on September 5 …

Migrants have been arriving in Slovakia in ever-larger numbers, attracted by a document introduced by a former Smer government five years ago which they believe, wrongly, grants them the right to stay in the EU. The country’s neighbours are making the situation worse.Zyad, a refugee, left his wife and two …

With the EU ban on Ukrainian grain imports expiring on Friday, Poland and Hungary have both declared they intend to prolong the exclusion no matter what the European Commission wants. The knotty problem of Ukrainian grain flooding Central and Southeast European markets is back on the agenda as Hungary and …