European Union ministers responsible for EU affairs agreed on Wednesday to strengthen the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) with an additional €250 million, Polish Minister for EU Affairs Adam Szłapka said.

Should the EU set up migrant return centres outside the bloc -- and if so, where and for whom? Currently less than 20 percent of people ordered to leave the bloc are returned to their country of origin,

European Union home affairs ministers met in Warsaw on Thursday to discuss migration, a day after the German parliament backed plans for tighter rules, including turning away all asylum seekers at Germany's borders.

The closed-door meeting in Warsaw is informal, meaning ministers won't make any formal decisions. The point is to allow ministers to discuss ideas freely to lay the ground for solid agreements in the Council of the European Union – essentially an EU legislative chamber representing national governments.

Should the EU set up migrant return centres outside the bloc -- and if so, where and for whom? European home affairs ministers began thrashing out the explosive question during talks Thursday in Warsaw.

The Parliament’s budget committee has green-lit a €250 million plan for a new headquarters for the EU border agency in Warsaw as it gears up for expansion. Frontex, currently operating from an existing building in Warsaw, will see its new headquarters built on land provided for free by Polish authorities under an EU agreement by loan.

Greece’s migration minister says the European Union is poised to take stricter measures on migration in 2025, with a focus on expanded deportations, but will not adopt the hard-line methods used by the Trump administration.

Standing at the base of a five-meter-high (16-foot) metal fence topped by barbed-wire running along the border with Belarus, armed Polish soldiers are on the lookout for migrants.

Poland’s presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. The challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values are stark at Poland's border with Belarus, Russia's ally in its war on Ukraine.

The EU aims to implement stricter migration measures in 2025, focusing on increased deportations. Unlike Trump-era policies, these will avoid extreme methods. Migration is now seen as a security issue.

Russian prime minister has threatened to pull Slovakia from the EU and NATO, arguing such alliances could soon only exist in "the history books".

EU and international agencies that work with ... A draft law winding its way through parliament would see the border shut for 60 days if Warsaw suspects that migrants are being “weaponized ...