January 16, 2019
Social
Maritsa Mavropoulou does not live on the island of Lesvos anymore. One of the three grannies, who became symbol of the Greek compassion and kindness with refugees, passed away at the age of 89. It was October 2015, when the picture of the three elderly Greek women feeding a refugee …
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September 28, 2018
Greece, Politics
“I accept the award in the name of the Greek people,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during his speech upon receiving the Global Hope Coalition award for the stance of Greece on the refugee crisis. The awards “Heroes of 2018 against extremism and intolerance” were given during the Global Hope …
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June 29, 2018
Economy, Greece
Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, announced on Friday afternoon the suspension of hikes on Value Added Tax on the five islands hit by the refugee crisis. Stressing that he discussed the issue with European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker during his recent visit to Athens, Tsipras said that he received the green …
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April 13, 2018
Refugees
The Greek government launched a special newsletter aimed at keeping citizens properly informed on all issues related to its management of the ongoing refugee crisis in the country. The newsletter will be published quarterly. Greece has come under fire from various human rights groups, Greek media and the general public with the …
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March 17, 2017
Politics, World
“In the EU, we have a deficit in leadership,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said in an interview with the US magazine National Interest. His remarks about Germany, Turkey, Russia, the refugee crisis and the conflict in Syria are “noteworthy for their clear stands,” the magazine notes. With the European …
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March 15, 2017
Politics, Refugees
As relations between Turkey and Europe deteriorated, the government in Ankara did what it knows best: it fired threats. Exactly there where it knows it hurts Europe: The Refugees. At least two ministers told media that the government is considering to review the EU Turkey Deal. The statements were immediately …
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January 18, 2017
Politics
Conservative Italian MEP Antonio Tajani was elected the 29th president of the European Parliament on Tuesday night. He replaces German Socialist Martin Schulz after he beat countryman Gianni Pittella, also a Socialist. Tajani of the European People’s Party, won 351 votes in a fourth and final round of voting. Gianni Pittella, …
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November 1, 2016
Politics, Refugees
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Italian Mateo Rezi could be an effective nice front against those xenophobic EU member-states that refuse to accept asylum seekers. I have the feeling that the first steps in this direction are already under way – nevertheless, the South Europe Solidarity Summit in September. …
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October 26, 2016
Politics
Outgoing US president Barack Obama will visit Greece on November 15th and his visit will last 36 hours, the White House said yesterday in a statement. Obama will hold meetings with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and will most likely visit also a refugees camp. The Greek …
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August 14, 2016
Politics, Refugees, World
I thought, EU members states were supposed to take 6,000 refugees per month from Greece – according to some forgotten EU Deal signed the European Commission and the EU member states. Reality teaches us, the deal will work the other way around. Member states will send refugees back to …Greece. …
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March 10, 2016
Economy
While we have been busy with the Refugee Crisis, the institutions have been working for us. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for example, has been collecting economic data, evaluating them and comming to conclusion that The refugee crisis creates significant problems for the Greek economy and growth …
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March 9, 2016
Politics
Members of Left Unity occupied the diplomatic representation of the European Union in downtown Athens. Their goal was to protest the EU policy that turns Greece into a huge refugee camp but also the policies of austerity. Former SYRIZA ministers Panagiotis Lafazanis and Dimitris Stratoulis were heading the group of …
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March 1, 2016
Politics
The European Union is getting ready to assist Greece in the Refugee Crisis. In the usual slow bureaucratic pace, but…. Tomorrow, Wednesday, Brussels is expected to approve an Aid package so that Greece can cope with the Humanitarian crisis. According to media, Greece asked for 450 million euro, the EU …
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February 27, 2016
Economy
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble hinted his country is willing to allow Greece some leeway as it struggles with the twins tasks of reforming the economy and caring for an influx of refugees. “The financial situation is difficult,” Schaeuble told reporters at a Group of 20 briefing in Shanghai. “Greece …
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February 23, 2016
Editor
Developments in the Refugee and Migration crisis are sweeping Europe like a storm. EU members states have taken the papers of Conclusions of the EU Leaders Summit last Friday and cleaned their shoes on Sunday. Austria imposed a strict admission quotas on refugees entries, plans to move soldiers to its …
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February 18, 2016
Politics
The powerful explosion triggered by terrorists in the heart of Ankara on Wednesday evening forced Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to cancel his trip to Brussels. Davutoglu was supposed to participate in the EU Summit and talk about solutions in the Refugee Crisis. Consequently, the three-party meeting between Greece, Germany …
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February 10, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
880,000 people arrived in Greece since the beginning of 2015. This is stated in a EU Commission progress report on Greece and the Refugee Crisis. According to the report released today, the country that has received a huge stream of refugees and migrants on its soil has made progress in …
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January 22, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
At least, 21 people have died in two separate boat wreckage that occurred during the night in the Aegean Sea. According to the Greek Coast Guard, a wooden boat carrying 48 people from Turkey to Greece sank off the island of Farmakonisi. The cost guard rescued a little girl, forty …
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December 28, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
We might have been considering the Christmas Grinch as a pure ‘fictional character”. But reality proves we were wrong: the grumpy, the anti-holiday spirit exists. And thus not alone but together with its clones. This year’s Grinch came from Germany and outright in a double pack. In form of Finance Minister …
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December 14, 2015
Politics
Greece will host a mini-summit on migration with the leaders of Germany and Turkey in early 2016, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said yesterday Sunday. the Greek proposal comes at a time when German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged to bolstering the protection of the Schengen external borders and the Frontex demands …
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