: A historically-high number of voters have chosen parties classified as authoritarian or populist, according to a new report analysing parliamentary election results for 260 parties in 31 countries since 1946, or since the year free elections werefirst
: The impact of the EU's new pact on migration and asylum is clearly visible from an Italian port quay on the day of a migrant disembarkation. First touching land after having survived a sail aboard an overcrowded dinghy in a storm, 28 migrants were trooped through a sped-up "tick-boxing" screening, which experts worry will not accurately measure the vulnerabilities they're up