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Somali refugees board a plane that will take them home to Mogadishu from Dadaab camp in Kenya.

A group of refugees disembark an inflatable boat after reaching the Greek island of Lesvos.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits refugees at the Centre Tenda Di Abramo in Rome, Italy, on 17 October 2015.

Tackling unemployment and migration are for many Europeans the biggest challenges facing the EU, according to the latest Eurobarometer opinion poll commissioned by Parliament. Nearly two thirds think decisions on migration should be taken at the EU level rather than nationally, while eight out of ten said asylum seekers should be “better distributed among all EU member states”. However, the answers vary considerably from country to country.

“We have failed to anticipate the massive arrival of migrants, and now that we are overwhelmed by its consequences and implications, we are bargaining like carpet-sellers about quotas and figures. Colleagues, we are talking about human lives. Providing shelter and support to those who flee conflict and extreme poverty is not only our moral duty, it is also our international obligation,” she stressed in a debate on “The moral and economic imperative for fairer, smarter and more humane migration”, organised by the IPU Assembly in Geneva on 18 October.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts on October 16 completed a mission to review national nuclear security practices in Norway.

UK government will invest £5 million this year to build a national network of grassroots organisations to challenge all forms of extremist ideology, the Prime Minister announced on 18 October on the eve of the publication of the government’s new Counter-Extremism Strategy.

Martin Schulz with the heads of state at the European Council

Immigration and terrorism are EU citizens’ fastest-growing concerns, according to the latest Eurobarometer poll, commissioned by the European Parliament and published on Wednesday. An EU average of 66% of respondents said that more decisions on migration should be taken at EU level, rather than by national governments alone, but the survey found marked differences among countries on all the issues addressed.

Conference officers hold up empty ballot boxes for inspection prior to the vote to elect five non-permanent members of the Security Council.