The Russian government has unilaterally moved its nation’s border nearly a mile into Georgian territory through South Ossetia. Not surprisingly, a British Petroleum (BP) oil pipeline is in the region.
Police faced massive riots in Greece on Wednesday night as Parliament accepted the terms of a debt deal significantly more stringent than that rejected via referendum on July 5. Mass arrests of nationals from Australia, Ukraine, France, and Italy– but not Greece– occurred.
Following a referendum in which the Greek people largely rejected a debt deal with the EU and IMF requiring further austerity measures, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been cornered into selling the Greek Parliament an agreement even stricter than the one the referendum rejected. In doing so, he faces the herculean challenge of proving his new demand is not a complete about-face for him or his leftist party.
The German police union has spoken out about the volume of refugees flooding into the country, saying tens of thousands of arrivals are going undocumented because they lack the resources to adequately deal the problem. German law required police to
The Eurogroup session has resumed in Brussels at the same time a crucial meeting of heads of state and government of the 19-nation currency area to decide on Greece’s fate in the euro zone later today was cancelled. After the nine-hour session
A new EU initiative will see data from all journeys made by public transport tracked and stored in an EU supercomputer by 2020. This will not only require the installation of expensive tracking equipment, it would also require a vast network of computers and operators to be
The seemingly final deadline for serious Greek proposals in the debt showdown was Friday morning, and some paperwork was indeed delivered on schedule, inducing some optimism that a Greek exit from the Euro would be averted. Depending on who you ask, the deal is either a stunning triumph or disastrous capitulation for either Greece or its creditors.
A Bloomberg reporter, presumably in Athens to cover the developing Greek debt crisis, received quite a surprise with the bill: a charge in the Greek drachma, a long-defunct currency looming its head as the possibility of Greece leaving the euro behind grows with every day its government fails to make a debt payment to Europe.
Germany and France have volunteered to between them take in more than one third of the 60,000 asylum seekers that the European Commission wanted placed across Europe after many states objected strongly to mandatory quotas. Around 40,000 mostly Syrians and
Michele Coninsx, the chief of the European Union’s agency that investigates terrorism, told the media that she has been given reports of ISIS-linked terrorists making their way into Europe on boats also carrying migrants.
As the financial crisis in Greece worsens, more and more sectors of the Greek economy are taking hits, including the health care system. Greece has a socialized health care system and now that the government is running out of money, so are hospitals.
Vladimir Putin is reportedly reaching out to Greek leaders to try to affect the outcome of the recent crisis. On Sunday, Greek voters once again defied European leaders and voted against approving new austerity measures.
Greece voted ‘No’ by a landslide in a referendum on the latest EU bailout deal. Here’s what it means: 1. You have just added a new word to your Greek vocabulary. Besides ‘retsina’, ‘souvlaki’, ‘moussaka’, and ‘kalamares’ you now know
As the ruling Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) vocally demands the Greek people vote “no” on a referendum regarding European Union debt repayment terms on Sunday, an unlikely voice has emerged representing the opposition “yes” vote, interpreted as a vote in favor of keeping the Euro as currency and remaining in the Euro: electro-pop megastar Sakis Rouvas.
As the Greek crisis comes to a head, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has admitted for the first time that Greece may leave the euro “temporarily”. Speaking to Bild, the German minister said: “Greece is a member of the eurozone.
Police report that they have arrested double the number of illegal immigrants at Czech international airports as they did last year. Most of the aliens were arrested at Prague’s international airport, and a sizeable number of them arrived on planes from Turkey and Greece.
In the wake of the growing financial crisis, thousands of Greek nationals are fleeing their homeland. Tens of thousands have ended up in Australia. It is the largest wave of migration from Greece to Australia since hundreds of thousands fled the march of fascism in World War II.
A record 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war, conflict and persecution, the United Nations said on Wednesday. “Europe is living through a maritime refugee
It has been a difficult week for Greece, whose as-of-yet insurmountable debt to the European Union and International Monetary Fund continues unpaid and with little hope of preventing a default.
France’s top administrative court has ruled that border controls on the French/Italian border do not violate the Schengen agreement, confirming the country can stop migrants entering through Italy. The migrants, predominantly Africans, have become a source of tension between the two
Syrians are the key actors in the human trafficking organizations that illegally smuggle migrants across the Aegean Sea, from Turkey into the European Union (EU), reports Hurriyet Daily News.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has forced all banks in the country to shut down and limit the amount of money Greeks can withdraw from ATMs. This is in anticipation of a July 5 referendum on whether Greece should accept economic reforms in exchange for a shot at not defaulting on its $271 billion debt to the European Union and the IMF.
Researchers at the University of Thessaly discovered that Greece experienced a 35% spike in suicide rates during 2010 and 2012, with unemployment and the expanding debt crisis in large part responsible for the rise.
The Queen stands firmly behind remarks she made yesterday in Berlin, calling for unity in Europe and warning against “dangerous” division, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Speaking at a state banquet in Berlin, Her Majesty called on Europe’s leaders to “maintain the
The orang-utan population of Indonesia is being driven to the brink of extinction thanks to the massive deforestation underway to satisfy the rapidly growing demand for palm oil as a biofuel. Some scientists estimate that as many as 95 percent of the
