by Our Foreign Desk
EUROPEAN UNION leaders agreed yesterday morning to send €1 billion to agencies helping refugees at camps near their home countries and to boost Europe’s border controls.
The leaders said that task forces of European experts sent to help register and screen refugees in so-called hot spots must be fully operational in Greece, Italy and perhaps also Bulgaria by November.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
As unions sound the alarm on kafala-like dependence, FC Barcelona must decide whether their values extend beyond the pitch, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON


