January 14, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Five members of foreign non-governmental organizations were taken to the prosecutor on Thursday morning facing charges of having facilitated the illegal entrance of refugees and migrants to Greece. The 2 Danes and 3 Spaniards were arrested this morning by members of the Greek Coast Guard because they towed a boat …
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January 14, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Small mounds of soil. A thin marble tablet. A brief inscription, mostly without a name. A number. And the date of the burial. Unadorned silence. The graveyard of the Unknown. The graveyard of refugees drown in the Aegean Sea. Their bodies washed ashore or picked up from the waters by …
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January 8, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Greek island of Lesvos in 2015, left behind mountains of life-jackets. The orange life-savers have been abandoned at the beaches or waste dumps, dissolving extremely slowly and polluting the environment. But the volunteers operating on Lesvos had a brilliant idea …
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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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January 7, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
It seems to be a decided issue: Refugees and migrants will be trapped in Greece. The new Dutch European Union Presidency vowed a tough line on refugees which translates into keeping refugees and migrants out of the central and north Europe. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the numbers of …
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January 4, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
More than 800,000 refugees and migrants passed through the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea on their way to Europe for a better future. While local authorities and the central government were too slow to react to the challenge of thousands of people stranded, the residents of the islands …
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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 23, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Seven children, two women, four men did not fulfill their dream for a better life in Europe. they were drowned in the early morning hours of Wednesday, when their boat sank off the island of Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean Sea. One person is still missing, while 15 people were …
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December 10, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
The army of the Former Republic of Macedonia is erecting a second fence across its borders to Greece. the wire fence is being erected in the area of Metzilia opposite of the Niki area in Florina. the target of FYROM is to limit migration flow coming from Greece. The spokesman …
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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 8, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
It was an emotionally gripping picture what I saw this morning on television. Hollywood star Mandy Patinkin standing in front of a mountain of life-jackets. Hundreds if not thousands of live-jackets left at Molyvos, one of the villages of Lesvos island that has been flocked by thousands of men, women …
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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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November 30, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
The European Union reached a super deal with Turkey in order to get rid of the Refugees problem. The EU promised Turkey €3 billion cash and opening the ‘frozen’ chapters that would allow Turkey’s accession to European Union. On its part, Turkey promised to handle the flow of refugees into …
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November 24, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees published data about the arrivals of people to Europe by the sea. The data refer to arrivals from January to November 2015. A total of 862,901 people have arrived to Europe via Spain (3,592), Malta (105), Italy (143,700), and Greece (715,704). 3,485 people trying …
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November 22, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
More than 2,000 refugees have been trapped in Northern Greece after FYROM authorities closed the boarders and allow only refugees from Syria, Afhanistan and Iraq to cross Skopje. Holders of passports from other countries are not allowed to cross to FYROM and from there to head towards Central and North …
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November 9, 2015
Economy, Editor
For one more time, Greece is in the Eurogroup’s Twilight Zone. Some of the creditors insist on putting obstacles in front of the release of the 2-billion euro bailout tranche. And no wonder, it is the usual “suspects”: Schaeuble, Dijsselboem & Co. Ok, everybody knows that Dijsselbloem is following Schaeuble’s …
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November 8, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
43,000 runners, a record participation, joined the 33rd Athens Marathon – The Authentic on this sunny November morning. Greek Christoforos Merousis won the 42-kilometer race from the ancient battlefield of Marathon to Athens Panathinaic Stadium with an impressive time of two hours, 21 minutes and 22 seconds. Winner Christoforos Merousis …
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October 31, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
When the water is safer than the land, the choice is easy: water. Hundreds of war refugees get on board each and every day. By wind, by rough sea. Boats ready to fall apart, smugglers who abandon the boats within the Turkish territorial waters. The new boat captain can be …
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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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