At least 96 people have been killed in the UK in attacks with a racial element since the murder of Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago, Institute of Race Relations has claimed.

A large number of new immigrants pushed up Germany's population in 2011 for the first time in eight years, the national statistics office, Destasis, said recently.

David Norris and Gary Dobson are to appeal against their convictions for the racist murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in south-east London in 1993.

The government's offer of performance-based bonuses to immigrants who learn Swedish in under a year has failed to produce results, according to a new report.

As Greece teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, there has been a surge in violent attacks on immigrants. Now many migrants say they have had enough of conditions there and want to go home.

Forced deportations of rejected asylum seekers are expected to increase by 30 percent compared to last year due in part to Sweden's new asylum policies.

Migrants from outside the EU who want to stay in the UK will be banned from using the appeals system as a cheap second chance to supply evidence they should have used in their original application, Britain's immigration minister said recently.

Less parental leave for those who have just arrived in Sweden with kids will help getting immigrant women out on the labour market, according to two Swedish experts.

Business leaders have warned that government plans to create a temporary workforce of overseas skilled migrants will be "incredibly disruptive" to Britain's economic recovery.

Illegal immigrants who refuse to leave the Netherlands voluntarily will have to pay for their forced deportation.

Police are seeking three suspects as a headteacher and friends pay tribute a 16-year-old whose parents fled violence in Zimbabwe to move to the UK. He is the eighth teenager to die this year.

Fewer than 1,300 non-European students have paid the new tuition fees required for them to study at Swedish universities, according to higher education officials. In the 2009-10 academic year, there were more than 16,000 non-European university students in Sweden.

When your teacher is a performance poet, English lessons can have a different accent.

The Church of England has voted to tackle claims of a "pale, male and stale" leadership with a new campaign to recruit more ethnic minority people.

Native Dutch people's worries about foreigners are 'understandable', deputy prime minister Maxime Verhagen is set to say in a speech to Christian Democratic party members this week, according to reports.

Exactly two years after the implementation of new immigration rules in Belgium, 28,000 formerly illegal immigrants have benefited from the new criteria.

Family members from outside Europe who come to join close relatives settled in Britain are expected to be denied access to welfare benefits for up to five years.

Charges have been filed against the publisher of a website affiliated with a Swedish neo-Nazi movement for allowing a reader comment containing racial slurs to remain on the site.

The Italian Post Office has been accused of racism against immigrants. It is currently auctioning apartments in several cities including Verona, but it seems that it doesn't want to sell them to immigrants.

Despite the recent outrages in Norway, Sweden Democrat (SD) leader Jimmie Åkesson refused to change his stance on the controversial party's anti-immigration line on immigration.

Foreigners are on average able to find work in Finland just as well -- or even better -- than native Finns, according to a study published by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE).

What defines a modern German? More people believe it's not race or national origin that matters, but whether a person can adjust to life in Germany and properly integrate into society, according to a new study.

The lawyer for captured American fugitive, George Wright said his client wanted to serve the rest of his jail time in Portugal, but legal experts predicted Friday that U.S. prosecutors will "move heaven and earth" to get him back into the U.S. justice system.

Nearly one in two Swiss believes there are too many foreigners in the country, but 80 percent say Switzerland would not be as economically successful without them, according to a poll published recently.

The head of Germany's federal anti-discrimination agency says tougher penalties need to be enacted to crack down on people being unfairly disadvantaged.

Dutch immigrants 'not obliged' to integrate "A judge has said that immigrants are not obliged to integrate in Dutch society," according to reports from Dutch newspaper Trouw.

A lack of housing is often a major hurdle for newly arrived immigrants as they try to settle in and find employment in Sweden, according to a new report.

The Hague city council has told some 800 people with an ethnic minority background they need to learn Dutch and take a civic integration course or their welfare benefits will be stopped, the Telegraaf reports on Friday.

There is "no evidence" the immigration cap on skilled workers is harming the economy, the government's chief immigration adviser has said.

Philip Murphy, the US ambassador to Germany, has written an open letter admonishing German ‘jerks' for racially abusing a black member of his staff in Berlin recently.

An Angolan youth who arrived in the Netherlands as a 10-year-old refugee without his parents is to be deported now he is 18, according to reports.

The Netherlands is not allowed to jail illegal immigrants just because they are illegal, the European Commission has ruled.

Social Democrat Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu's proposal to combat criminality by deporting new Swedish citizens who commit serious crimes has been slammed by party colleagues as "pure racism."

The mayor of a small town in northern Switzerland has left office after positive comments he made about immigrants were met with insults and threats directed at his family.

A police investigation has been launched in the UK into an alleged assault on a Nigerian asylum seeker in front of her three young children on a plane bound for Italy.

Efforts are underway in Helsinki to attract more people of immigrant background into the ranks of police and firemen. Only a handful of non-ethnic Finns currently serve in Finnish law enforcement.

The number of young male offenders from black and ethnic minorities in custody in England and Wales has risen, a report suggests.

Asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants are being treated like slaves and paid far less than the legal minimum wage at car washes around Sweden, according to the police.

France said it will tighten immigration rules to require would-be citizens to provide written proof that they speak enough French to manage their daily lives.

UEFA is to investigate alleged racist abuse directed towards England's Ashley Young, who is black, by some Bulgaria fans during a recent Euro 2012 qualifier in Sofia.

Protesters demanded that Germany compensate victims for its crimes in Namibia during a ceremony in Berlin in which the remains of the South African country's ancestors were returned.

People in a small town in Serbia have turned out in force to protest against the number of asylum seekers and immigrants mostly from Somalia and Afghanistan coming to their town.

Two boys have been arrested after Newcastle United footballer Sammy Ameobi was racially abused on Twitter. Police said the teenage footballer received a tweet calling him a "nigger."

A new law designed to force German employers to recognize foreign qualifications has passed its final hurdle in the German parliament, the Bundesrat.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he "wants everyone in the country" to help "reclaim our borders" by reporting suspected illegal immigrants.

Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, jailed in Eritrea for the past decade, has been honoured by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, the Congolese man who has filed a lawsuit against the Belgian comic book Tintin speaks out about the material, which he said "celebrates colonialism and the supremacy of the white race over the black race."

Right-wing extremists in Denmark are getting ready for a "race war" and are conducting weapons training in preparation, the country's intelligence agency has said.

Non-EU workers and their relatives will have to prove knowledge of one of Switzerland's national languages if they want to stay in the country.

Nick Clegg says banks and football clubs must do more to end the "racial ceiling" and offer equal opportunities to the UK's ethnic minorities.

Of the 8,500 people who have taken a short test designed to assess knowledge of the Netherlands and Dutch society, only 38% passed, according to reports.

A UK cafe owner has lost his High Court fight to be recognised as the creator of the recipe for a sauce made famous by a Dragons' Den contestant Levi Roots.

An overwhelming majority of voters in Lucerne, Switzerland, have rejected an initiative to grant foreigners the right to vote in local elections.

A group of allotment owners in northern Germany have been told to turn over a new leaf after they set a limit on how many people with foreign roots should be allowed to join their garden community.

More than one third of people registered as unemployed come from outside Sweden, according to a new unofficial report revealed.

David Duke, a notorious American white supremacist, has been arrested in Germany and is facing deportation, according to his website and German media.

Migrants to Europe are unfairly blamed for unemployment and social problems in tough economic times, the International Organisation for Migration said recently.

Up to three-quarters of immigrants in Finland with a higher education are without jobs. A new doctoral dissertation indicates that language barriers, a poor job market and discrimination are among the problems they face.

A woman in the eastern German town of Leipzig has given birth to a white twin and a black twin - a phenomenon scientists say is a one-in-a-million occurrence.

Attitudes towards foreigners in Switzerland have toughened in recent years, according to the chairman of the Federal Commission against Racism.

Jamaica's new Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has said she intends to make the island a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth as the head of state.

A 15-year-old boy from Paris was tortured and drowned on Christmas Day by his relatives after they accused him of practising witchcraft, a British court heard recently.

Migrants coming to the UK from outside the EU are to be banned from working as chefs in fast food outlets and takeaways, Immigration Minister Damian Green has announced.

Criminality among immigrants from non-western countries and their children has fallen dramatically, according to a new study by the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit.

The number of foreigners living in Germany rose for the first time in five years in 2010, growing by about one percent, new data from the National Statistics Office (Destatis) has revealed. Africans and people from the Americas make up smallest group of immigrants.

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