September 6, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
A two-month old baby boy from Syria died after the boat carrying refugees to Greece sunk in the Aegean Sea. Saturday morning, around 5 a.m. and the boat crashed at the rocks on Agathonisi island. All 40 passengers fell into the sea, the parents and the baby included. “The baby …
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September 4, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
On the island of Lesvos, hundreds of migrants attempted to get on board of a ferry without the necessary papers, clashes erupted between security units and the angry people. In Kos, a mob of angry residents hurled tomatoes and eggs, swore and booed the EU Migration Commissioner Avramopoulso and EC …
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September 2, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
A tiny little boy with tiny blue shorts and a tiny red t-shirt. His body has been washed upon a beach in Turkey. A couple of meters away lies the body of his brother. Aylan was 3 and his brother Galip was 5. Together with their parents, Aylan and Galip …
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July 8, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Unbelievable scenes on the island of Lesvos as refugees try to raid food truck. The incident took place when nearly 2,500 migrants hosted in the camp of Lesvos (Mytilene) municipality in Kara Tepe saw the catering truck approaching. They started to run for a plate with food. Reason fro the …
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June 3, 2015
Refugees, Tourism, Very Mix
This is an excellent response to the recent despicable article by Daily Mail that British Tourists are disturbed by refugees on the island of Kos. A young Dutch, Niels Verheij, is about to go for holidays to Kos and he is bringing two extra suitcases full of shoes for the …
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May 28, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
The joy of holidaymakers is for UK’s Daily Mail more important than the lives of those who flee the war in Syria and Afghanistan. The shameful article, Holidaymaker misery as thousands of boat people from Syria and Afghanistan set up migrant camp to turn popular Greek island into ‘disgusting’ hellhole is …
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May 18, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
The European Commission has outlined its plan to trigger an emergency response to relocate migrants among EU member states. The first step would be a temporary scheme followed by a legislative proposal for a permanent and mandatory quota system by the end of the year. Member states will have the …
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April 21, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
It needed the drowning of 1,000 people within 24 hours for the European Union to wake up and call an emergency leaders summit on Thursday in order to show that can effectively tackle the migration crisis. At a joint meeting of Foreign and Interior Ministers in Luxembroug on Monday, High …
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April 20, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
They are shocked. The EU leaders, the EU officials. But, No, they are not shocked by the loss of lives in the deep waters of the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea on a daily basis. They are shocked by the number <700>. That is the lives that disappeared at once off …
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April 20, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
An incredible tragedy with unbelievable scenes is currently taking place off the island of Rhodes in south-eastern Greece, with dozens of migrants jumping into the sea in front of the eyes of stunned locals and tourists. Just 50 meter away from the Zefiry beach, a sailing boat packed with dozens …
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April 14, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Greece proceeds with radical measures and without much talking and negotiations with its EU/Schengen partners in order to tackle the influx of illegal migrants and refugees arriving in the country from Turkey. In an urgent cabinet meeting under the leadership of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday, it has been …
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April 14, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
They arrived at the port of Piraeus on Tuesday morning: 250 war refugees from Syria. They hold a paper stating that they have a couple of days to decide what to do, stay in Greece or go to another country of the European Union. Several buses were waiting for them …
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December 6, 2014
Politics, Refugees
Left-wing SYRIZA MP Yiannis Micheloyiannakis will join the Syrian refugees who are on hunger-strike since a week. The reasons Micheloyiannakis stated for his hunger-strike are mainly anti-austerity and have to do with the voting of Budget 2015 in the Greek Parliament tomorrow, Sunday. In a statement Micheloyiannakis criticized the budget …
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November 24, 2014
Refugees, Very Mix
Two men and two women, one of them pregnant, collapsed on Monday, on the second day of their hunger strike outside the Greek Parliament in downtown Athens. All four have been transferred to public hospitals. Several men and women, refugees from civil war-hit Syria, closed their lips with tape and …
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April 29, 2014
Refugees, Very Mix
“The European Union must sanction Greece for its widespread practice of pushing back refugees and migrants,” said Amnesty International in its “Greece: Frontier of hope and fear”” published on Tuesday. According to AI, with this practice Greece violates its international human rights obligations and urges the EU to use its …
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March 6, 2014
Refugees, Very Mix
Three undocumented migrants are currently undergoing treatment in Skylitsio hospital on the island of Chios, after suffering injuries when Greek Coast Guard fired warning shots at a boat carrying illegal migrants to Greece. According to local media, the injured are a woman at her 20’s, a middle-aged man and a …
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January 30, 2014
Refugees, Very Mix
Forty-five mostly students, members of left-wing SYRIZA youth section have been detained during a protest at the office of maritime Minister Miltiadis Varvitiotis on Thursday morning. While the protesters blame the police for ‘attacking them without reason’, reporters and also a SYRIZA lawmaker and the mayor of Komotini claim that …
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December 2, 2012
Refugees, Society
A Greek-Bulgarian family has been living at the Munich airport in Germany for the last six months. Almost like in film The Terminal with Tom Hanks. Unlike Tom Hanks, the three-member family is allowed to leave the airport, only it has nowhere to go. Neither in Munich, nor in Thessaloniki, …
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