If they survive the journey, migrants this year face much tougher European Union border controls.

NATO ships pass reconnaissance to Turkish and Greek coastguards and to the European Union border agency, Frontex.

It poses the real risk of the imposition of an external European Union border across the fields of Fermanagh and Tyrone.

European regulators last week brought the inclusion of derivatives based on hedge fund indices in funds sold across European Union borders a step closer.