A new French film, L'Italien has lifted the lid on how some from immigrant backgrounds are getting around the unemployment problem and it is stirring lively debate.

With German President Christian Wulff expected to soon announce the dismissal of central banker Thilo Sarrazin over inflammatory race and immigration comments, leading politicians have called for a renewed integration debate.

British authorities are cracking down on sham marriages designed to allow immigrants to stay in the country, part of a broader effort to tighten up UK borders.

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy is moving to strip some foreign-born criminals of French nationality, a minister said recently, with plans reportedly targeting polygamists.

Second generation immigrants in Germany are having fewer babies than their parents, a new study has revealed, denting the widely-held belief that migrant communities could be the nation's fertility engines.

France is squarely in Europe's extremist camp with its new hardline stance on security and immigration. But other countries have found far less confrontational answers to the same problems.

A 14-year-old girl was killed and dozens of revellers injured yesterday when more than 100 bare-chested skinheads rampaged through a rock concert in central Russia attacking people with iron clubs.

In July, in Novozavidovo, a village 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Moscow, Jean Gregoire Sagbo became the first black to be elected to office in Russia.

Despite recent racial unrest in Italy, African communities continue to forge ties in the ‘bel paese.' Many West Africans are making the multicultural area around Viale Gramsci in Modena, northern Italy home.

A video of the forced eviction of African women and children in a Paris suburb has shocked French politicians as well as advocates for immigrants and housing rights.

More ethnic Turks are now moving out of Germany than in ever before. As the German economy lags, a Western education helps professional Turkish Germans find work in a booming Muslim nation. But they aren't always welcomed "home."

Chinese newcomers to post-Communist Hungary have turned the country into a hub of trade with Central and Eastern Europe. But they generally keep to themselves and refuse to assimilate.

An increase in the number of marriages between Italians and Africans, has meant more mixed race children. Sabrina Jacobucci, president of Association of Afro-Italian Children discusses the problems they face, and what should be done to make the education system more responsive to their needs.

A third of German businesses cannot fill open jobs,  as most applicants are not qualified enough. However, results of a recent poll show that most Germans don't want immigrants to fill those positions.

Nine-year-old black twins are to become two of the youngest pupils admitted to a UK secondary school. They were the youngest ever to pass A/AS-level mathematics and the University of Cambridge's Advanced Mathematics (FAM) exam.

He's been called the new face of France's Socialist party. In late March Ali Soumaré help lead his party to victory against the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) at regional elections.

This fascinating documentary follows Moroccan women who struggle to find economic and social supports for themselves in contemporary France. See can extract here.

Melilla sits on the north coast of Africa, near Morocco. For African and Asian migrants, it has a compulsive attraction; due to a military conquest more than 500 years ago, this city which is geographically African is legally part of Spain - making it a safe bridge into Europe.

Yes, Norway has a multicultural population. Read these profiles of four well-known Norwegians of color.

Belgium is home to many multicultural communities. We have profiled some of these talented residents who are making contributions to the country.

African migrant workers rioted in the Italian town of Rosarno in Calabria, after two of them were shot with airguns. This Médecins Sans Frontières video, shot in Rosarno in December 2009, lifts the curtain on their deplorable living and working conditions.

Thousands of illegal aliens lead clandestine lives in the Netherlands. Mayors fear an amendment to immigration law will hit the most vulnerable. Read one woman's story.

Second generation Italian immigrant Queenia Pereira de Oliveira, who is of Brazilian-Nigerian origin, describes the challenges of feeling at home in the country.

Germany has its first government minister of Turkish origin -- Aygül Özkan, the Hamburg-born daughter of Turkish immigrants, as minister of social affairs in a coup for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

A skeleton uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times. The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have been dated to the 13th century.

A CNN profile of Jean Léonard Touadi, the first black member of the Italian parliament.

Muslims in Belgium hit out at a looming public ban on the full-face Islamic veil, saying claims it was being introduced for security reasons were simply an excuse to crack down

Two knife attacks against foreigners in Moscow have been attributed to ultra-right nationalists. While both attackers have since been caught, racist violence continues to remain a problem on public transportation.

Touching on Italy's immigration problems, this news story focuses on how some Chinese in Milan - home to the largest number of Chinese in the country - are forced to leave in poor conditions.

Spain's northeastern town of Lerida has voted to ban the wearing of the burqa in municipal buildings, the mayor's office said, in an apparent first for the country.

Half the world is up in arms about Arizona's new law allowing police to detain anyone even suspected of being an illegal alien on US soil. But the same thing is happening in Spain.

An interactive map detailing areas of ethnic tension in Moscow will soon used by both the law enforcement agencies, and Moscow's committee for Interregional Ties and National Policies.

Under a controversial bill that would ban wearing the full Islamic veil in public, women "offenders" in France could be forced to take citizenship courses to "remind them of the values of the French republic."

UK Member of Parliament Diane Abbott has become the first black person to contest the Labour leadership after a flurry of late nominations secured her place in the race alongside four other contenders.

More than one in 10 French people admit to being racist and many have prejudicial views of immigrants, blacks, Arab and Jews, according to a recent survey.

The Association of Moroccan-Dutch People (SMN) has reacted with dismay to the huge election gains of the anti-Islam Freedom Party. Geert Wilders' party almost tripled its number of seats in the 150-member Lower House to 24.

In a dramatic change of policy the Swedish government is planning to allow refugees to work from the day of arrival. The labour market has been closed to asylum seekers for the first few months.

Compulsory English language tests will be introduced for migrants applying to come to the UK to join their partner or marry, the Government has announced.

The constant fear of being attacked in the street or anywhere has become a way of life among Africans living in Russia - the majority of the attacks are racial motivated. "Street Life Moscow: Strange Land, An African in Russia" examines the lives of those who face the problem.

Italy's constitutional court has rejected controversial legislation imposing stiffer penalties on illegal immigrants who commit crimes in Italy.

Barcelona has become the first large Spanish city to announce a ban on the wearing of full Islamic face-veils in some public spaces.

The number of migrants caught entering the EU illegally has dropped sharply, a change attributed to the economic crisis and stricter border controls.

Nearly half of the skilled migrants who come to Britain from outside Europe are to be exempted from the temporary cap on migration planned by the government.

Thousands of Chinese immigrants in Paris took to the streets recently to protest their lack of security. They say they are being mugged and robbed by gangs of 'youth' and that the police aren't doing anything to protect them.

The number of complaints about anti-semitism in the Netherlands is going down but there has been an increase in physical attacks on Muslims, according to the environment ministry's latest racial discrimination report.

Following an anti-Semitic attack in Hanover, German authorities said they have identified a new source of anti-Semitic hatred in Germany: young migrants from Muslim families. The ideological alliance has officials concerned.

As Germans celebrated the victories of a national football team in which almost half the players have a migrant background, a government report reveals a less rosy picture than the World Cup success story for most immigrants.

Later this year, top companies in Europe's biggest economy are to begin testing "blind" applications that remove any reference to ethnic background or other personal information irrelevant to job performance.

The UK's population is set to become even more diverse. Ethnic minorities are set to make up a fifth of the UK population in 40 years, a University of Leeds study predicts.

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