France has defended its deportation of Roma migrants, insisting that it was in line with European Union laws as two French ministers met with top EU officials concerned about the crackdown.  

A new law in Sweden will pay immigrants taking state-funded Swedish language classes up to almost 2,000 U.S. dollars, tax-free, for completing the program within a year.

The Finnish Minister of Migration and European Affairs says that suspicions that the family unification procedure may be used for human trafficking should be investigated by the country's Immigration Service.

A record number of Somali families can expect to be reunited this year in Finland, according to government reports. By the end of July, nearly 2,500 family reunification applications were filed from Somalia -more than the total number of applications in 2009.

Right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache has spoken out against the construction of additional minarets in Austria.

A civil servant working under Burundi-born Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni will be assigned new duties after writing a blog comparing Islam to Communism or Nazism.

Liberal German-Turkish politician Serkan Toeren has called for a ban on the full-body veil worn by Muslim women. Toeren wants to follow in the model set by France and Belgium, which banned the burqa earlier this year.

Net migration to the UK rose last year to 196,000, up by 33,000 from the number in 2008.Migrants from the Indian sub-continent made up 34% of new settlers. Some 25% were from Africa and 21% from elsewhere in Asia.

Criticism is mounting over France's move to expel hundreds of Roma gypsies, with Romania warning of a xenophobic reaction and the EU calling on France to obey migration rules.

Muslims in Spanish city of Lleida have presented six written complaints to the city council over its decision to ban the burkha in public buildings.

An undercover operation by an anti-racism group has exposed racism at some bars and clubs on campsites in the south of France.

French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said he has lodged a complaint against a young rapper Abdul X because of a music video called "Shoot the Pigs," which police say promotes violence against officers.

Sweden's National Migration Board (Migrationsverket) believes that the number of asylum seekers in Sweden will decline next year because there are less applicants from Somalia than previously.

Right-wing opposition chiefs have target Michael Spindelegger after the People's Party (ÖVP) foreign minister called for "active immigration policies."

Efforts to boost the numbers of immigrant children in Germany finishing school have fallen flat, according to a government report, which shows the problem has actually become worse.

Lund University in southern Sweden has introduced a separate admissions process for foreign students after criticism that the current system discriminates against even those with top grades.

Representatives from the police and city council have met with selected residents in Birmingham over the installation of ‘spy cameras' in predominantly Muslim areas.

France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public. The vote must now be ratified by the Senate in September to become law.

A Danish politician has suggested paying immigrants half the current minimum wage. The idea has gone down well with center-right parties, but it's opposed by the left -- and the far right.

Immigrants in Finland will soon be entitled to choose 50 representatives for a planned "Immigrant Parliament of Finland." The first elections for the body will coincide with 2011's elections of the Finnish Parliament.

A man who left an African immigrant in Spain paralysed after a racist attack has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

A Moroccan man who refused to shake hands with a French female official and whose wife wears the full Islamic veil has been denied French citizenship, the immigration ministry said recently.

A conservative Berlin politician has proposed requiring immigrants to take an intelligence test before being allowed in. His idea has not been well received.

Some 54 percent of Dutch Moroccan youths have come into contact with the police, compared with 23 percent of young men in general, according to recently released research.

More than 200 anti-terrorist surveillance cameras put up in predominantly Muslim areas in Birmingham in the UK, won't be switched on following uproar from the community.

An amended law on migration, which includes a stipulation that foreigners who don't need a visa to enter Russia will have to be fingerprinted should they seek employment, will come into force on July 1 of this year.

With some Finns complaining about the number of asylum seekers entering the country foreign affairs minister Alexander Stubbs defends immigration and multiculturalism.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy started the debate about national identity. As France asks itself what it means to be French, racial tensions appear to be surfacing. France 24 International reports from Marseille, the country's most ethnically diverse city.

Nigerian businessman Adebayo Ogunlesi has bought the UK's Gatwick Airport. In this "Sky" interview he describes how he is going to shake-up Britain's airport business.

Two Finnish cities have hired special bilingual teachers to act as mediators between homes and schools. This as educators try to improve communication between immigrant families and schools.

Last year a Berlin court ruled that the 16-year-old Muslim could pray in a private room at his school. Now a higher Berlin court has overturned that judgement, saying the prayers could disturb school peace.

An undercover investigation by the UK's "Guardian" newspaper reveals plan by the English Defence League to hit racially sensitive areas in an attempt to provoke disorder over the summer.

Evidence is anecdotal for the moment, but it appears that at least among the 30,000-strong Moroccan community in Turin, Italy, people are packing their bags and going home.

Some 50% of the Dutch back the forced integration of foreigners into Dutch society and only 19% support a multicultural set-up, according to a new poll.

They are young, Muslim and Scottish - and will not take no for an answer. The result is a growing strain between generations.

At the beginning of 2010, a wannabe neo-Nazi burned down the "House of Democracy" in the small town of Zossen just south of Berlin. The case lays bare the deep roots of extremism in eastern Germany.

A leading Italian politican supports granting Italian citizenship to children of immigrants born in the country. This, however, doesn't mean that anyone born in Italy automatically becomes an Italian citizen.

Far from living in closed-off communities, Muslims in Berlin's Kreuzberg district live in a culturally diverse area. However, a new report finds that they still suffer from high levels of discrimination, particularly within the city's school system.

The European Court of Justice has upended the minimum income requirement for foreign marriage partners. More aspects of Dutch immigration policy could be at odds with European law.

The official equalities watchdog will threaten to brand as racist police forces which are deemed to have used stop and search powers excessively against people from ethnic minorities.

NPR report on how in Germany, national identity is still linked to ethnicity and non-whites still face exclusion.

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