Europe
Does the UK pay a fifth of the VAT going into the EU budget?
Business for Britain says the UK pays a fifth of all VAT going into the EU budget. We look at the figures behind the claim. Read
We do fact checks and explain news from Europe and the UK's links with it, so you can understand the big stories.
Europe
Business for Britain says the UK pays a fifth of all VAT going into the EU budget. We look at the figures behind the claim. Read
Europe
Difficulties getting a visa for a spouse aren't directly caused by the EU; they reflect government policy on immigration, which EU migration affects. Read
Europe
How many migrants have arrived in Europe in 2015? How many are expected to come? How many people arrived in the UK in 2014? We look at the facts. Read
Europe
The Sun quotes the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as saying that many migrants aren't fleeing war zones. Here's what else the OECD said. Read
Europe
The Mail claims that 1 in 5 asylum seekers have been Syrian. The Guardian says there is evidence that's changing as the situation develops. Both are right. Read
Immigration
Readers have asked us whether it's true that most refugees are male. Of those applying for asylum in the EU recently, more than half have been men aged over 18. Read
Immigration
Germany will end up accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees, both from Syria and the wider world, but 800,000 Syrians accepted to date is way off. Read
Europe
The EU can't force Britain to take a "quota" of refugees from other EU countries. The UK can choose to opt in to any such EU plan. Read
Europe
Officers of Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, are not entitled to 'diplomatic immunity' from criminal prosecution. Read
Europe
Comparisons are tricky, but it seems that the UK gives asylum seekers less cash support than many other European countries, adjusted for living costs. Read