Contents: EU will start returning migrants to Turkey on Sunday; UN and others object to EU-Turkey deal on humanitarian grounds; Greece’s refugee camp at Idomeni becomes disgusting an explosive
Greece’s interior minister on Friday likened the grim camp holding thousands of refugees on the border with Macedonia to the Nazi concentration camp Dachau. His comments came as EU leaders were meeting in Brussels to try to reach a deal
Dozens of migrants are rioting over free food handed out outside a football stadium in Greece, with reports of injuries near the Piraeus port where nearly 5,000 migrants are living at the passenger terminals. Local Greek media reports state that rioting began shortly after 7pm, when around
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday he was confident that EU leaders and Turkey would reach an agreement during a two-day summit on a plan to stem the flow of migrants into Europe. “I’m pretty
(AFP) – More than one million migrants and refugees have entered Greece since January last year, the United Nations refugee agency said Wednesday. “More than one million people, mostly refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have now crossed into Greece
In his general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis launched an appeal to the nations of the world to open their hearts and their doors to migrants who are standing “at the border,” in an apparent reference to the many migrants camped
(Reuters) – European Council President Donald Tusk has stressed in a note to EU leaders that a planned deal with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants to Greek islands will be a “temporary and extraordinary measure”. The note, seen
The German press is alleging that former cabinet minister Norbert Blüm was directly involved with the migrants who left Idomeni to march on Macedonia. A pamphlet has arisen which supposedly shows a map of routes out of Greece. At the
(Reuters) – The European Union should grant Turkish citizens visa-free access if Turkey meets a “critical mass” of legal conditions, the EU Commission will say on Wednesday, offering concessions to Ankara in the hope of sealing a deal on sending
Some 1,500 migrants who managed to cross into Macedonia, despite the border being closed to them for a week, have been sent back to Greece by Macedonian troops, officials said Tuesday. The desperate group of men, women and children had
Blond haired activists with piercings and dreadlocks allegedly led three migrants to their deaths yesterday, distributing inaccurate maps and corralling them across a river. Hundred of migrants have been returned to Greece, and the activists walked free with €250 fines. Around
The President of Macedonia has laid into the German Chancellor for exposing all of Europe to jihadi terror and a migrant influx — which could potentially reach 20 million — due to her open invitation to so-called ‘refugees’. “The refugee
Migrants have placed their babies, toddlers and young children on railway tracks in Greece in a bid to blackmail European authorities into reopening their borders. The children were placed on tracks leading to Macedonia at the Idomeni refugee camp on
(Reuters) – The cost of managing the migrant crisis in Greece will exceed a previous estimate of 600 million euros (465.74 million pound) as more and more refugees are forced to remain in the country, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis
(Reuters) – A draft European Union plan to send back some migrants to Turkey has legal and moral flaws and could put vulnerable people at risk, the head of Amnesty International said, calling on Europe to take in more people
Speaking to a German newspaper, the President of Macedonia has said his country has been “left in the lurch” by the European Union (EU), which has lavished money and support on Turkey but ignored their work to stem the migrant
(Reuters) – Macedonia hopes stopping migrants at its border with Greece, which has effectively closed the Balkan route into northern Europe, will help the country join NATO, Defence Minister Zoran Jolevski said on Thursday. Macedonia’s bid to join the defence
The celebrity pilgrimages to migrant camps, so familiar in Calais, have now begun in Greece, with the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei visiting the Macedonian border yesterday. “Thousands of people are stuck here,” Mr. Waiwai observed. “You can’t believe this is happening
(AFP) – EU interior ministers were set to meet in Brussels Thursday to discuss the migrant crisis after western Balkan nations slammed shut their borders, exacerbating a dire humanitarian situation on the Macedonian frontier. The scheduled two-day meeting will tackle
Contents: Bizarre EU-Turkey one-for-one refugee deal meets strong opposition; Europe faces two additional major crises: Grexit and Brexit
Startling images are emerging, portraying the reality of life in the many migrant tent city encampments that have sprung up along the Macedonian border with Greece. Heavy rain and flooding hit the camps yesterday, which have seen brawls and escalating violence
Contents: Turkey and Hungary play hardball at EU-Turkey refugee summit; With summer approaching, European politicians may be close to panic
Turkey drove a hard bargain at yesterday’s talks with the EU, doubling the amount of money previously promised by EU leaders to €6 billion and securing accelerated access to the Schengen free movement zone for its 75 million citizens. The
Turkey has made a series of steep last minute demands ahead of today’s talks with the European Union (EU). Diplomats say the migrant crisis deal is now in danger, but Turkey has insisted they’re not “blackmailing” the EU. The Turkish delegation demanded an increase on the
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said “closing borders” is “not an option” and demanded a sentence declaring the “western Balkans [migrant] route closed” is crossed out in a statement from the European Union (EU) summit with Turkish leaders today. EU
Contents: Number of women and children refugees to Europe surges; EU and Turkey meet in Brussels for major showdown over refugees; Death of Nancy Reagan reminds us of generational differences
(AFP) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday demanded the “urgent” relocation of thousands of refugees to other EU countries, as neighbouring Macedonia further tightened a border blockade trapping them in his country. He made the call on the
Ahead of the major migrant crisis talks to be held in Brussels on Monday, the European Union (EU) has announced it is to close off the Balkan route completely and begin the return of economic migrants, but this progress may
Greece is likely to receive another 100,000 migrants by the end of the month, Europe’s migration commissioner warned on Saturday, two days ahead of an EU-Turkey summit seen as the only viable solution to the crisis. As EU members continued
European leaders will push Turkey at a summit on Monday to agree to large scale deportations of economic migrants from Greece, as EU chief Donald Tusk says he sees the first hints of a resolution to the migrant crisis. With
The Bulgarian army yesterday conducted a major exercise on the Greek border, testing their capacity to deal with a migrant influx. The Prime Minister slammed the Greek response to the crisis and offered up his forces to deal with migrants.
The Royal Navy is to deploy a ship to the seas between Greece and Turkey to assist with the escalating migrant crisis. The RFA Mounts Bay, a landing ship dock of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, will join a NATO maritime group
(Reuters) – Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria, one
(Reuters) – A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the drowning of five people including toddler Aylan Kurdi, the image of whose dead body sparked global sympathy last September over the fate of
The European Commission is confident the migrant crisis will end, and there will be no more EU internal border controls by December of this year after the formation of a European coast guard to secure the Greek border. The border controls
Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said Thursday, amid preparations for a highly anticipated summit of EU and Turkish leaders next week. European Council President Donald
Europe will set Greece a deadline of May 12 to register all migrants in an orderly fashion or face more border controls, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told a German newspaper on Friday. Greece has been the main gateway for nearly
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has created a refugee team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The members have no home country to play for in the games.
The price of human dignity for the tens of thousands of economic migrants now living in Greece has been calculated by the European Union (EU) to equal large amounts of taxpayer cash stuffed into envelopes and distributed amongst those it believes qualify
Radical leftists are taking direct action to create a border-less world and a multicultural Europe by handing out bolt-cutters to the tens of thousands of migrants presently stuck in Greece. A leaked confidential government document from Austria’s crisis unit has revealed
