Unprecedented! The European Union approved a 700-million euro Humanitarian Adi packed mainly for Greece, but the money will not be given to the State to deal with. It will go International Agencies like the UN and to Non-Governmental-Organizations, while “part of the amount will be given directly to refugees in …
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Germany, Holland push for Asylum Registration so refugees remain stuck in Greece
Germany and The Netherlands are setting up the agenda on the EU – Turkey Summit on March 7th 2016. based on statements made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte it comes down to this: refugees and migrants would have to apply for asylum in Greece …
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Tsipras will push for EU Resolution to make refugees’ resettlement “compulsory” for EU-members
In an exclusive interview with Program Frontal 21 of German state broadcast ZDF, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described the border closure by several EU-member states as “unacceptable” and threatened for one more time to veto EU decisions at the EU – Turkey Leaders Summit on March 7th 2016. ” …
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FYROM tear-gasses refugees awaiting to cross, Austria, Czech Rep sent police units
The situation at Greece’s northern borders escalated when police on the FYROM side fired tear gas and stun grenades against refugees Monday noon. A few hundred of refugees, women and men holding their kids in their arms took down the border fence, broke a gate and tried to enter FYROM. …
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+++ Appeal: Volunteers, Food, Drugs, Items Donations for 2,000 stranded Refugees in Piraeus
This is an urgent appeal by the Pan Piraiki Initiative Group of volunteers assisting refugees and migrants arriving at the port of Piraeus on daily basis. Today, Monday, February 29th 2016, there are more than 2,000 people, children, women, men, elderly awaiting to leave for the borders. They cannot. FYROM …
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Fire breaks out in two army camps to turn into hot spots for refugees & migrants
A fire broke out in the restaurant hall of a military camp that is supposed to be turn into a hot spot to host refugees and migrants in Giannista, Northern Greece. The fire broke out at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday in “Filippaki” camp, the fire brigades managed to extinguish the …
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Let’s talk about “European Values”…
Let’s take a break. Let’s talk about the famous and much praised “European Values”, the rule of law, democracy, freedom, dignity and something they call “Human Rights”, I think. Yes, let’s talk about “European Values”, when EU countries close borders and leave thousands of war refugees stranded. Comments section is …
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EU’s evil Plan B: Cutting the Balkan Route, Bottling up thousands of Refugees and Migrants in Greece
The closure of borders in the north of Greece has created chaos: thousands of refugees and migrants wandering from Athens to Idomeni without knowing where to sleep and what to eat, where to lay their kids and elderly to sleep. FYROM, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria has closed their border today. …
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Refugees & Migrants launch protest demanding to leave Greece
Chanting slogans that they want to leave Greece, a few hundreds refugees and migrants started to march in the port of Piraeus on Friday morning. they had arrived to the port form the islands earlier and were not allowed to get on buses for Idomeni at the borders. embedded by …
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Two young migrants attempt suicide in downtown Athens
A strange story: two young men from Pakistan, migrants attempted to ‘commit suicide’ in the middle Victoria Square in downtown Athens on Thursday noon. The two men had made loops from blouses and scarves and attempted to hang themselves from the trees on the square. Refugees and migrants hanging around …
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PM Tsipras: Austria’s initiative “unacceptable”, he threatens to block all EU decisions on Refugees
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threatens to block all EU refugee decisions if Greece will be left to deal with the crisis alone. Commenting on Austria’s initiative to hold a West Balkan Conference on Migration, Tsipras described it as “unacceptable”. PM Tsipras said he will block all decisions at an …
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Austria & West Balkan countries agree to stop refugees flow
Austria and West Balkan countries agreed to put an eventual complete stop to the flow of refugees entering Europe. During the West Balkan Conference on Migration, four EU-members Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria as well as Albania, Bosnia Kosovo, Serbia, FYROM decided to implement new measures and also call the …
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The 500km Walk: Refugees try to reach Greece’s borders to FYROM on foot
Families with children, pregnant women, fragile elderly, people with disabilities … They picked up their belongings and started to walk. A long march, a 500-km Walk along Greece’s national highway to the north, the borders with FYROM. Several hundreds refugees started to walk towards Greece’s borders to FYROM on Wednesday, …
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Greece submits demarche to Austria over Vienna Conference on Refugees
Greece blast Austria over its initiative to invite countries of the so-called Western Balkan to a Conference over refugee crisis in Vienna, thus excluding Greece – the country that receives thousands of refugees each and every day. Despite the Conclusions of the EU Leaders Summit last Friday, Austria proceeded to …
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Turkey tries to torpedo NATO’s Operational Plan: serious objections or bargain chips?
Good old Turkish tactic. While all parties concerned are eager to see the NATO operation in the eastern Aegean Sea launching its mission, Turkey seems to put some obstacles in the operation plan of the North Atlantic Alliance. Ankara insists on a series of issues and refuses to cooperate in …
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At least 10,000 Refugees stranded in Greece after FYROM closes borders to people without passport/ID
More than 5,000 refugees have been trapped in the ‘neutral zone’ at the borders northern borders of Greece, after FYROM closed its gates to Afghan refugees. The same has reportedly done by Serbia and Croatia. FYROM’s decision has a domino effect, as thousands of refugees arriving from the islands to …
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Alexandroupolis: Fisherman rescues 60 refugees with his boat
“I heard calls from desperate people, I could not but help them” fisherman Panagiotis Karavetis tells media. Karavetis was sailing with his fishing boat 11 nautical miles off the city of Alexandroupolis when he met an inflatable boat fully loaded with 60 refugees, among them 20 infants and children. Shocked …
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Turkish Coast Guard grabbed several children from a refugee boat & took them back to Turkey
Unbelievable and very cruel, if true! Syrian refugees claim that a Turkish coast guard vessel took several children from a boat where they were together with their parents and took them back to Turkey. Furthermore, that the coastguard officer attempted to sink the boat while it was sailing in Turkish …
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Juncker: Shutting down Greece’s borders is “legally impossible & politically unacceptable”
One day before the EU summit in Brussels with the Migration Crisis high on the agenda, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that shutting down Greece’s borders to slow the influx was illegal and unacceptable. In an interview with German conservative daily BILD, Juncker was asked whether closing Greece’s border …
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Stunning! Underwater museum exhibits the plight of refugees (videos)
The sound of sea bottom is silence. The refugees drown into the sea. Sculptures in an underwater museum. British artist Jason deCaires Taylor created this museum to showcase the plight of thousands of war refugees risking their lives in dangerous waters for a better future. DeCaires Taylors’ refugee sculptures sit …
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