EU’s struggle to deal with thousands of migrants raises questions
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, September 4, 2015
Eight Greek chapters sanctioned
Eight Greek life chapters have been sanctioned for violations to GW’s code of conduct since January, according to an update to GW’s sanction website ...
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Live Text Commentary
Delay in match Nikolaos Karelis (GREECE) because of an injury. ... Konstantinos Fortounis (GREECE) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the ...
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Three People Dead in Greek Psychiatric Hospital Fire
Three people were killed on Friday afternoon during a fire that broke out at the ground floor of Dafni Psychiatric Hospital in Athens, Greece. The three deceased individuals were hospital patients. The Greek Fire Department said that three more people were seriously injured. The Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported that the fire department noted that the victims possibly died from
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Road to EU refuge strewn with thorns
After arriving in Greece, then passing through the non-EU Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, refugees once more reaching European…
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A Reminder That A Syrian Migrant's Son Gave Us The iPhone
A Hungary ruled by right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán doesn't deserve to produce the next iPhone. The populist leader has spewed viciously xenophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric as migrants -- many of whom escaped violence in Syria -- amass in Hungary, a way station on the route to Germany. This, even as the world reels from the photo of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi's drowned body, cradled in the arms of a Turkish police officer. The gut-wrenching image only served to illustrate the desperate odds refugees face while trying to escape war at home. Still, Orbán is not alone. In Greece, masked gunmen attack boats of migrants, attempting to prevent them from reaching the shores of the European Union. Even in Germany, where the government has taken in a record 800,000 refugees, a surge in neo-Nazi attacks on migrants have rocked the country. Images of people leaving a Hungarian railway station on Friday to travel to Austria on foot demonstrate rich nations' reluctance to provide safe havens to those lucky enough to set foot in a stable country. But, lest we forget, one of the men who most dramatically impacted human civilization in the last decade was the son of a Syrian who migrated to the U.S. in 1954. Perhaps you've heard of him. His name was Steve Jobs. > A Syrian migrants' child. pic.twitter.com/sjBxuInpEp— David > Galbraith (@daveg) September 2, 2015 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Recipe: GREEK Lamb Kabobs with Yogurt Sauce
Just in time for Labor Day weekend, Patrick Reitmayer from Salt of the Earth Catering joins us with a great grilling recipe.
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Ian Eats STL: A giant gyro at Fenton's tiny Little GREEK Corner
The Little GREEK Corner certainly lives up to its name. The brick-and-mortar operation of food truck My Big Fat GREEK Truck opened in July in a narrow ...
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Greek Police Prevent 1,000 Afghans from Boarding Ferry in Lesbos
Greek Police Prevent 1,000 Afghans … Ferry in Lesbos ATHENS - Greek police and coastguards prevented on … ferry trying to leave the Greek island of Lesbos in the … people seeking refuge arrived in Greece, including 150,000 in the …
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National Herald Poll Shows Greeks Back Diaspora Voting Rights, See Close Race in National Election
An overwhelming percentage of Greeks believe that Greek-Americans born in Greece should have the right to vote in their former homeland, and that the United States has been a good partner, the first-ever poll in Greece about critical issues taken for The National Herald has definitively shown. The post National Herald Poll Shows Greeks Back Diaspora Voting Rights, See Close Race in National Election appeared first on The National Herald.
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Why One Photo Of A Dead Baby Made The World Care, According To A Psychologist
Source: thinkprogress.org - Friday, September 04, 2015 The crisis in Syria has triggered the largest humanitarian and migrant crisis since WWII . For many, that tragedy was personified this week in the photo of a small boy in a red shirt and tiny trainers, washed up on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum (the distressing photo is embedded later in this post). That three-year-old boy was buried Friday in the town of Kobane, which he and his family fled, by his father, the lone survivor. He has been identified in the media as Aylan Kurdi, though his aunt told the BBC that the accurate Kurdish spelling of his name is Alan. Three-year-old Alan and his family, including his five-year old brother Ghalip, mother Rehanna, and father Abdullah were among a small group of migrants attempting to cross from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos, and thus into the European Union. They were reportedly trying to reach Canada, where Abdullah’s sister lived. Of the Kurdi family, only Abdullah survived the tragic trip. Fourteen of the party of 23 migrants are believed to have perished. Five of the dead were children. The photos of Alan in particular have been shared widely on social media around the world. Suddenly, the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean, a tragically common occurrence , inspired widespread outrage. Artists around the world referenced the photo to draw spotlight to the crisis. Headlines asked if this one picture would shift our view of refugees. In a blog post, Peter Bouckaer All Related | More on Syria
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Germany v Poland Live Stream, Faroe Islands v N Ireland, GREECE v Finland and more to watch ...
There's a busy Friday night coupon as Germany face Poland live streaming, N. Ireland take on the Faroe Islands, GREECE play Finland and more in ...
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Stop Migrant Suffering in GREECE; List of Top Humanitarian Organizations
Migrants Below, you can find all the useful links and contact information of some of the humanitarian organizations struggling to cope with migrant ...
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Nurses in footsteps of Anzac Girls
MODERN day ‘Anzac Girls’ gather in Greece to honour and mark 100 years since the first Anzac nursing contingent arrived to treat war wounded.
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US coordinating its response to Europe's migrant crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has set up a working group to help coordinate the U.S. response to Europe's migrant crisis. Spokesman John Kirby says the group was set up following a request by Secretary of State John Kerry. It will also seek to ensure the U.S. is prepared for future crises elsewhere in the world. Kirby says the U.S. is providing $26.6 million to the U.N. refugee agency to help it provide food, water and legal assistance to refugees traveling through Greece, Macedonia and Serbia. He says the U.S. has provided more than $4 billion in humanitarian assistance to those affected by Syria's four-year civil war. Europe is grappling with a daily influx of thousands of people, many fleeing Syria's war, putting strains on much of the continent. Join the conversation about this story »
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Latest Greek poll shows Syriza party neck-and-neck with ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek leftist Syriza party is running neck-and-neck with its main conservative rival, the New Democracy party, before a snap election on Sept. 20 ...
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EU Commissioners on Kos tell Greece to end the chaos
After the drowning of two children in the Aegean between Turkey and Kos, European Commissioners visited the Greek island. Conditions for refugees must urgently be improved, they said. Bernd Riegert reports from Kos.
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US removes Greek leftist group from terror blacklist ...
Washington (AFP) - The United States regards the Greek armed leftist group the "Revolutionary Organization 17 November" as defunct and has removed it from its terror ...
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Fire in Athens Psychiatric Hospital: 3 dead, 3 seriously injured
Three patients tied up in their beds found the most cruel death after a fire broke out at Greece’s biggest Psychiatric Hospital in Dafni in western Athens. Another three patients have been seriously injured, while a seventh patient is been reportedly missing. The fire broke out at 4:30 pm Friday […]
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Greek Pre-Election Debate on September 9
The Greek public will witness the country’s political leaders confront each other on camera less than two weeks before the September 20 elections. Greece’s political party leaders will engage in a televised debate on September 9. Golden Dawn President Nikos Michaloliakos will not be part of the debate. Reports had previously surfaced that the debate
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European Commissioner Cretu: ‘We Will Continue to Support Greece’
European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu participated in the emergency meeting of the European parliament‘s Regional Development Committee to discuss Commission proposals to support Greece. Cretu made the following statement: “Today I participated in an emergency meeting of the Committee on Regional Development in the European Parliament to discuss the Commission’s proposals to help Greece fully benefit from
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Wow House: GREEK Revival Style Sag Harbor Home With Art Studio
The large GREEK Revival style home, originally built in 1833, was enlarged and renovated in 1850 in the Italianatestyle to become one of the grand ...
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EU Officials Avramopoulos and Timmermans Heckled on GREEK Island of Kos
Avramopoulos was seen hurrying to enter the heavily guarded city hall building after the episodes that occurred when former GREEK National ...
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Connecticut's Trinity College Abandons Plan to Make GREEK Life Coed
The coed mandate was championed by a former Trinity president, James F. Jones Jr., as a way to clean up problems in the college's GREEK system.
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Greek leftist group November 17 removed from US terror ...
The United States has removed the Greek armed leftist group, the Revolutionary Organization 17 November, from its terror blacklist, after concluding the ...
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Explore the Recent Research into the Wind Power in Greece, Market Outlook to 2025, Update 2014
… power market, Greece power market, Greece renewable power market and Greece wind power … and investment opportunities in the Greece wind power market. Facilitate decision-making …
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Refugees attacked 'with bats', stun grenades in Greece
… away from the port, Greek media said. Greek authorities later led some … said that their journey to Greece had been filled with many … are protected," Kondylia Gogou, Greece Researcher at Amnesty International, said …
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World Press View: Greece Unready for Big Migrant Crisis
Until now, Greece has left it up to volunteers, charities, NGO's and others to help hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants. The post World Press View: Greece Unready for Big Migrant Crisis appeared first on The National Herald.
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California Community Mourns Georgia Dariotis
SACRAMENTO – Georgia Dariotis, died on August 20 at her family home in Sacramento at the age of 91. Dariotis and her brother Guss Dussin were the children of Greek immigrants and restaurateurs. Dussin founded the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant in Portland, OR in 1969. After working there for a few years, Dariotis and her husband Michael […] The post California Community Mourns Georgia Dariotis appeared first on The National Herald.
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Four Syrians formally charged in Turkey over boat deaths
A Turkish court remanded in custody four Syrians on Friday after a prosecutor charged them over the deaths of at least 12 people, including a 3-year-old boy, whose boat capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Kos, a local police chief told Reuters. Prosecutors charged the Syrians with smuggling migrants and causing multiple deaths by "conscious negligence" in connection with the drowning of the group after it set off from the Turkish resort peninsula of Bodrum. The picture of the drowned boy washed up on the beach in Turkey swept across social media and sparked outrage at the perceived inaction by developed countries to address the migrant crisis.
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160,000 refugees to be redistributed among EU countries
Whereas the EU member states have not yet found a final agreement on how to redistribute the 40,000 among themselves, Brussels will on Wednesday present a proposal to relocate another 120,000 migrants. Alongside Italy and Greece, Hungary will be added to the list of the states to be helped out. Commission President Juncker will also […]
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UPDATE 3-Greek leaders trade blame as migrants scuffle ...
Greek leaders fighting anunexpectedly close election campaign traded barbs on Friday overthe migrat
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Home GREEK news Amnesty International Condemns Attacks Against Migrants and Activists on ...
amnesty-international In a recent press release, Amnesty International spoke of “hellish” conditions for migrants and refugees on the GREEK island of ...
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America's most expensive home for sale just got a gigantic price chop
When real estate mogul Jeff Greene listed his Beverly Hills mansion in November 2014 for $195 million, it was the most expensive home for sale in the US. Later, he decided to try and rent it $475,000 a month. After nearly a year, it seems Greene is tired of hanging on to the property and is chopping the price by $46 million. Called "Palazzo di Amore," Greene's home was built for parties. It has an entertainment complex and ballroom, a private-label vineyard, and parking garages for more than two dozen cars. According to a statement, the house was "eight years of hard work" and Greene is selling it because the East Coast is now his base of operations. "It is, quite simply, impossible to recreate and one of a kind,” Greene said in the statement. With its new $149 million asking price, the home is still the most expensive public listing in America. Greene made a fortune when the real estate bubble burst in Greece and is worth about $3.2 billion, according to Forbes. Joyce Rey and Stacy Gottula of Coldwell Banker Previews International have the listing. _Julie Zeveloff contributed to an earlier version of this post. _ SEE ALSO: THE 15 MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSES FOR SALE IN AMERICA DON'T FORGET: FOLLOW BUSINESS INSIDER'S LIFESTYLE PAGE ON FACEBOOK! THE PALAZZO DI AMORE IS NOT YOUR ORDINARY MANSION. IT'S A TRUE PARTY PALACE, WITH SPACE TO ENTERTAIN 1,000 GUESTS. VISITORS PASS THROUGH THREE SETS OF GATES BEFORE ARRIVING AT THE GRAND HOME. THE TWO-STORY ENTRY HAS A PAIR OF CURVED MARBLE STAIRCASES. THE 15,000-SQUARE-FOOT "ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX" IS WHAT SETS THIS HOME APART. IT HAS A BALLROOM WITH A REVOLVING FLOOR AND CAN HOST 250 FOR A SEATED DINNER. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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GREECE'S crisis more twisted
It's the latest installment in GREECE'S ongoing battle against harsh debt repayment conditions imposed by its European neighbors — especially ...
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GREECE: Testimonies from refugees and staff in Lesbos
“I come from Damascus. I was studying for my baccalaureate, but I didn't continue at high school because my house was destroyed and my school ...
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Corrosive Effects of Corruption: the GREEK Case
My local GREEK friend helps me to eschew a bit of confusion by showing me, which one I should buy. I take my ticket and run to validate it, while many ...
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Varoufakis: I Won’t Support Tsipras, But I Hope We’ll Remain Friends
Greece’s outspoken former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that he will not support SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras in the upcoming elections, but he hopes they will remain friends. Speaking to CNBC on Friday morning, Varoufakis said he doesn’t believe in the third bailout program Greece has signed and he cannot support the party that signed
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EU Commission to Tackle Refugee Issue in Greece
European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos visited Kos on Friday to be briefed on the volatile situation on the Aegean Sea island created by the increasing number of refugees. A meeting was held at the town hall in the presence of both European officials with the participation of
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Aylan: Kobani awash with tears as the toddler, his brother and mother are buried
The coffins of two toddlers and their mother who drowned trying to reach safety in Greece and a new life in Europe have been taken back to Syria for…
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Fire at psychiatric hospital in Athens kills at least 3 ...
ATHENS, Greece – Greek authorities say a fire at an Athens psychiatric hospital has killed at least three people, believed to be patients. The fire ...
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Fire in Greek psychiatric hospital leaves 3 dead
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a fire at an Athens psychiatric hospital has killed at least three people, believed to be patients.
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Explainer: why some European countries do more than others to help refugees
Germany is doing most of the heavy lifting. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding at its borders at the moment. The European response has been, to put it mildly, ambivalent. On one hand there has been a mass outpouring of sympathy in the media and in public debate for the refugees fleeing nightmarish situations in Syria and Iraq. On the other, elected governments have not come up with solutions that seem remotely equal to the task. The circumstances are extreme but the pattern is nothing new. The EU has struggled to get member states on board for a system of burden sharing. Germany is taking in up to 800,000 refugees but even faced with mounting pressure at home, British Prime Minister David Cameron could only bring himself to make a vague promise about doing more. In a speech on September 4, he pledged to help “resettle” thousands more refugees, but made no firm commitment to easing access at the UK border. Meanwhile, countries in Eastern Europe continue to close their borders and seek to unburden themselves of the people arriving in their towns. Most people would like to see innocent refugees and their families find sanctuary, safe from the threats of death and persecution. This stems from humanitarian motives and not from narrow self-interest. We can therefore think of refugees who gain protection as what economists call a public good. Public goods are things that have a non-rivalrous and non-excludable benefit. Non-rivalrous means that the good feeling I get from knowing that refugees have a safe haven does not diminish the warm glow that you get from it. Non-excludable means that, supposing refugees were given protection, then neither you nor I could be excluded from the satisfaction that it would bring. There are costs for the country accepting refugees though. They are financial and probably social too. So there is an incentive to sit back, let other countries do the heavy lifting, and reap the benefit of their efforts. But if every country does that then very little heavy lifting gets done. In the absence of some higher authority to determine each country’s contribution, the public good will be under-provided and we may all be worse off. It is a classic collective action problem. THE COMMON SYSTEM For two decades the EU has been developing a common asylum system. This has has focused on harmonising various components of asylum policy, but not on burden-sharing between member states. The preference has been for countries to voluntarily offer places for refugees at times of crisis rather than to enforce a more binding allocation system. That is, until now. In May the European Commission called on every member state to take in a certain number of refugees, according to their individual capacity. Richer, larger countries would be asked to take more, smaller, less wealthy member states would be asked to take fewer. The scheme is not binding though, and it has been impossible to get all countries to commit even to the modest numbers proposed. Instead Germany has led the way while many of its European partners sit on the sidelines – an example of what Mancur Olson, doyen of collective action, dubbed “the exploitation of the great by the small”. There is reason to think that some of the problem lies with governments, not their electorates. Political leaders would be reluctant to cede control of asylum policy to a central authority like the EU, for fear of loss of sovereignty. Yet surveys of public opinion find that more than two-thirds of Europeans are in favour of a shared EU migration policy. So this might not be quite such a hurdle as is sometimes imagined. authorities hand out water on the Greece/Macedonia border. Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis Of course it is possible that most people don’t actually care about refugees and that the public outcry is just a vocal minority. In that case the original premise would be wrong. But it is not. A 2011 survey saw four-fifths of respondents agreeing that EU countries should offer protection to genuine refugees, and a similar share thought that asylum seekers should be distributed more equally across member states. But people only express such support for providing asylum when it is explained to them that refugees are people fleeing from situations owing to a “well-founded fear of persecution”. Surveys show that people are overwhelmingly opposed to illegal immigration. Unfortunately the term “asylum seeker” has increasingly conflated these two things. As a result, widely held humanitarian instincts have been overwhelmed by the strong desire to clamp down on illegal immigrants. MAKING IT WORK This makes it all the more difficult to come up with a more magnanimous asylum policy. People would need to be reassured that those given protection in their country were genuine refugees. Two complementary policies are required. The first is to make further efforts to stop illegal immigration across the borders of the EU. Europe’s Fortress Europe approach to controlling movement is often derided as heartless and reactionary. But it is necessary in order to reassure citizens that those arriving in their country are truly in need of protection and not “economic migrants” entering by the back door. It must be seen as the means to gain support for more places for genuine refugees, not as a way of shutting them out. The second is to support and expand reception centres closer to the sources of conflict where the status determination process can take place. Then those that qualify as genuine refugees could be transferred to Europe, distributed more widely and in greater numbers among EU countries. This would ensure that accepted refugees are those in the greatest need and not those who would otherwise be rejected and end up as a residue of illegal immigrants. None of this is easy, but surely it is worth the effort. _Tim Hatton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above._
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Volunteer hotline saves desperate migrants from the Med
From his office in Strasbourg in eastern France, Hatem Gheribi picks up the phone to a desperate woman who says she has washed up on a tiny Greek island.
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Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on GREEK tragedy, Mexican American immigration
Reclining high in the Getty Villa's outdoor theater, waiting for the actors below to begin rehearsing his latest drama, Luis Alfaro looked nothing like an ...
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Refugees attacked by 'thugs' on Greece's Kos: Amnesty
Refugees on the Greek island of Kos were attacked in the early hours of Friday by "thugs" with bats, telling them to "go back to their countries", rights group Amnesty International said.
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Riots erupt on the Greek island of Lesbos as 200 ...
A group 200 unregistered refugees trying to board a ship scuffled with Greek officials on the island of Lesbos this morning, with television footage showing them ...
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Danish tourists helping refugees in GREECE
... a slow start, their offer to allow tourists to take up to 20 additional kilos of goods to GREECE has recently caught-on with Danish and Swedish tourists.
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Nordic tourists rush to help refugees in GREECE
Swedes and Danes are heading to GREECE with bags of unwanted clothes and ... that refugees have been inconveniencing holidaymakers in GREECE.
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Stock markets slide after 'mixed-bag' US jobs report
173,000 new jobs were created in America in August, fewer than expected, giving few clues into when the Fed might raise rates * Latest: More fears over global economy * NFP misses forecast, but jobless rate hits seven-year low * Wage growth picks up... * ...but labour force participation still weak * Preview: A crucial NFP day 2.59pm BST The market slide is accelerating: 2.54pm BST Meanwhile over in Greece, a new poll ahead of this month’s election and it’s not good news for former prime minister Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza party: GREECE'S SYRIZA PARTY TO WIN 23.4 PERCENT OF VOTES AT SNAP ELECTION, NEW DEMOCRACY PARTY TO WIN 24 PERCENT - METRON ANALYSIS POLL Continue reading...
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