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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EU leaders verbally promise to keep Greece’s borders open till Summit with Turkey, March 6th
With the verbal reassurance of Germany and France that the northern borders of Greece will not be closed in the next two weeks, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returns to Athens to deal with the country’s internal problems like the farmers and the pensions reform. The ‘guarantee’ was given to the …
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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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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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EUCommission gives €12.7mn to Greece to host refugees & migrants, gives €12.7mn to #Greece to host refugees, €10mn to FYROM to control borders
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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Austrian FM: Greece should close its Northern borders for at least 24 hours
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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EU’s Dutch Presidency: You can’t go wrong with “Blame Greece for Schengen-at-risk”
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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Residents of Kos to decide on Refugees’ Hot Spot via …Referendum
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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Refugee Crisis – €3bn Aid to Turkey: EU publishes states contributions
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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Confidential Report: German security authorities accuse Greece of Refugees’ Misery
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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Did Germany offer Greece a trade “Bailout program review for Migration Control”?
Did they? Will they? Is there a trade between “Greece’s Adjustment program progress review” and “keeping migrants and refugees out of Europe?”. I f I am not wrong – and I am not! – we had this issue some months ago. As usual, I ‘m just too lazy – ‘busy’ …
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EU Blackmail worked: Greece to rush for 5 hot spots & 2 relocation camps – but many questions still open
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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The truth is out: Why Turkey doesn’t halt the refugees’ influx despite €3-bn EU agreement
We have wondered many times why Turkey does not implement what it has agreed upon with the European Union, after it signed the deal: 3 billion euro vs halting the refugees and migrants flow to Europe. KTG also often expressed the suspicion that Brussels most probably had not handed out …
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2013: EU Commission warns Greece refugees push-backs illegal – 2016: Belgium begs Greece to push back refugees & let them drown
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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Greek Migration Minister: “Some European countries asks us not to send them Black Refugees”
Greek Migration Minister made a revelation of important significance about the criteria according to which European Union member states ‘choose’ from a pool of refugees whom they are obliged to accept in the context of “refugees share quotas” agreement. Speaking to Parapolitika FM, Minister Yannis Mousalas said that 930 refugees …
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EU-United They Stand? Denmark approves law to seize refugees’ assets, delay family reunion
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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UPD “It’s Kids drowning in the Aegean, stupid!” – 42 Migrants dead in two boat incidents, among them 17 children
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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Greek Coast Guard forces Turkish trafficker to look at drowned refugee children (video)
A distressing footage by Sky News shows the rescue operation of an NGO when a boat carrying refugees to Greece capsizes off Agathonisi island in the Eastern Aegean Sea. While rescuers pulled the freezing refugees from the cold waters, for three children any help comes too late. Dramatic are the …
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