February 28, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
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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February 25, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
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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February 24, 2016
Politics, Refugees
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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February 23, 2016
Politics, 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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February 15, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
It was highest time, the European Commission bureaucratic politicians grab their pens and sign emergency funding for Greece in order to cope with the influx of refugees and migrants. But do not cheer! The 12.7 million euro will be spent of tents, field beds, sanitary facilities, wire fences and concrete …
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February 15, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Few days before the European Council Summit Tuesday and Friday in Brussels and the Europeans emerge for one more time divided as to how to deal with the Refugee Crisis. Alliances have been built and the EU member states seem to be trapped in their own fences, fences they erected to …
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February 13, 2016
Very Mix
This has been the strategy of the European Union for quite sometime. It has been a well-though plan of action designed to achieve a long-term covering up of EU’s failures and help EU politicians and technocrats sleep comfortable at night. strategy applied in order to cover up failures and inabilities …
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February 9, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
The city council on the island of Kos decided to have the people have a saying on whether they want to allow the establishment of a Refugees’ and Migrants’ registration center (Hot Spot). According to local media Aegeannews.gr, the majority of city counselors voted in favor of the mayor’s proposal …
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February 4, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
There is equality among EU member states: whether poor or rich they all have to pay their share when it comes to solve pan-European problems like the Refugees and Migration Crisis. It makes no difference whether some countries like Greece or Italy have beard on their own means the burden …
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February 3, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
German security authorities consider that Greece has totally failed in dealing with the refugee crisis. Didn’t you know that? If you didn’t know, at least you had certainly a …certain suspicion. But now it is officially confirmed through a confidential report and sources that speak on condition of anonymity. Of …
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February 1, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
The EU blackmail of “Schengen expulsion” apparently worked. Greece will speed up the establishment of five migrant registration centers (hot spots) and two relocation camps. After a meeting with several ministers, the Prime Minister’s office said that: the completion of 5 “hot spot” registration centers for refugees and migrants on …
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January 28, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
It was back in November 2013 when the European Commission warned Greece and Bulgaria to stop turning down Syrian refugees at their land/river borders with Turkey, after the UN issued a similar call just a few days before. Two and a half years later, in January 2016, it is Belgium, …
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January 26, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Danish parliament approved a law allowing the state to seize assets and valuables from refugees along with other measures to deter migration. The law allows police to search asylum seekers to secure cash and valuables. In the mind of the Danish lawmakers, in this way the cost of the refugees …
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January 8, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece, because an agreement with Turkey will not be enough to stop hundreds of thousands of migrants from coming to Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Orban said Germany, which welcomed a million migrants …
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December 30, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Portuguese and Syrian volunteers are currently in Athens offering a helping hand to refugees and migrants trapped in the ice-cold Greek capital. The six volunteers flew from Lisbon to Athens right after Christmas and landed in an ice-cold city with hundreds of people sleeping outdoors. The article was submitted by …
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December 14, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
They did it. Greece’s European partners do everything to have refugees and migrants trapped in Greece. For this purpose, the European Commission sent Kristalina Georgieva, Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources with a huge signature pen and a pledge of 80 million euro for the housing of migrants. Georgieva signed …
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December 9, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
A wooden boat carrying refugees from Turkey to Greece capsized off the island of Farmakoni in the eastern Aegean Sea on Tuesday evening. The boat had reportedly 50 people on board. So far the bodies of 12 people have been recovered: six children, two women and four men. They were …
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December 4, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
For one more day tension rose on Greece’s northern borders with FYROM. “Economic migrants” and refugees battled with each other as the first are trapped inside Greece and only the latter are allowed to leave. Petrol bombs and stones flew through the air, fists, kicks and wrestling on the ground …
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October 30, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
More than 48 people lost their lives in the cold waters of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece during the last three days. Babies, children, women and men were drowned in their struggle for a better life. Only a few hours after the tragedy with 16 dead and more …
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October 23, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
I head of such incidents in the past and I read it also yesterday. Human Rights Watch published a report about these alleged incidents where mysterious, masked and armed men in uniforms on board of speed boats attack boats with migrants and refugees trying to reach Greece. Armed Vigilantes Attacking …
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