With Greece buried under migrants and refugees, the UN's Secretary-General is expressing "great concern" at the growing number of border restrictions along the migrant trail through Europe.
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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, February 27, 2016
As Greece Struggles, UN Chief Rips EU Border Closings, Discord Grows
Greeks Want New Coalition
Most Greeks - and a third of SYRIZA supporters - want the ruling party to take in new partners and form a unity government, a survey shows.
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Greece recalls ambassador to Austria over migrant restrictions
That announcement followed Austria's decision last week to introduce a daily cap of 80 asylum-seekers and a maximum of 3,200 migrants would be allowed to pass through each day. The Secretary-General recalls that the vast majority of refugees are hosted by ...
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Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities salvages lost chapters of history
There are hundreds of wrecks in the GREEK seas, Simosi explained, but the service focuses its efforts on those that are considered most significant ...
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Here's the real reason we punish others, even if their actions don't affect us
[Wolf of Wall Street]Paramount Why do we punish people who are selfish, even when their behavior doesn't affect us directly? We protest unfair labor practices, criticize someone for going on Facebook at work, and condemn our friends for cheating on their partners, even though these things have little impact on our own lives. Punishing someone whose behavior doesn't directly affect you — known as "third party punishment" — is a common cross-cultural phenomenon: It makes sense for society as a whole to punish people people who break rules for their own gain. But calling someone out can cost you if you do it on your own. You might lose that person's friendship, for example, or they may even decide to take revenge. So why do we do it? A new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, offers some answers. THE MONEY GAME For her study, Jillian Jordan, a psychologist at Yale University, and her colleagues studied this phenomenon using a simple economic game. THEY FOUND THAT PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO PUNISH OTHERS BECAUSE IT MADE THEM APPEAR MORE TRUSTWORTHY THEMSELVES. The game was made up of two stages: * _In the first stage_, one person is given a sum of money and can choose whether he or she wants to keep the money or share it with another person. A third person who also has money then has to decide whether to "punish" the first person if they didn't share the money. However, punishing comes at a cost, literally, because the punisher loses some money in the process. * _In the second stage_, a new person gets a sum of money and has to decide whether to transfer some of it to reward the punisher from the first round. Whatever amount they transfer gets tripled. Then, the recipient gets to decide whether to transfer any of that money back. [A money changer poses for the camera with a U.S dollar (R) and the amount being given when converting it into Iranian rials (L), at a currency exchange shop in Tehran's business district, Iran, January 20, 2016. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMA ]ParamountWhat happened was somewhat surprising: People were more willing to reward someone (by transferring money to them) if that person was willing to punish someone who'd acted selfishly. Jordan and her colleagues think this was because it was a sign they could be trusted. Also, the person being rewarded in the transaction was more likely to return some of that money, something Jordan and her colleagues said could suggest that this trust was justified. In other words, "If someone is willing to sacrifice some money to punish someone for being selfish, they are seen as more trustworthy — and are more trustworthy," said Jordan. Still, there's a twist: When Jordan and her colleagues offered the punisher from the first stage the chance to be the person giving money (rather than simply giving them the option of punishing someone else for not giving money), those who chose to give were more likely to also receive money from someone else. THIS SUGGESTS THAT WHILE PUNISHING BAD BEHAVOR MIGHT MAKE YOU APPEAR TRUSTWORTHY, HELPING OTHERS COULD MAKE YOU LOOK EVEN BETTER. WHY WE PUNISH OTHERS Overall, the findings suggest that punishing people for being selfish isn't just good for society, but can be good for you as an individual, too. The findings add to previous research on punishment in the laboratory and in the real world. In one 2012 study, researchers conducted an experiment in the main subway station in Athens, Greece, where they violated two social norms, and observed how people reacted. In one case, the experimenter stood on the left side of an escalator (which is normally reserved for walking), and in another case, they intentionally littered. Overall, only about 12% of bystanders enforced these norms. And they were much more likely to enforce the no-standing-on-the-left norm than to enforce the no littering norm. In addition, men were more likely than women to punish norm violaters. These findings could suggest that while people are willing to punish others to enforce good behavior, only some of us choose to do so. So why is it that some people are more likely to punish people than others? The new study doesn't address this. However, Jordan speculates that it only makes sense to punish people in societies with a good rule of law, where bad behavior has consequences. But in societies where you can get away with acting badly, there's no incentive to risk the personal cost of ratting on other people. It turns out it's also not worthwhile to punish people who didn't do anything wrong, just to appear more trustworthy. It seems that the cost of punishing someone on false pretenses outweighs the benefits of being seen as a punisher. NOW WATCH: A Harvard psychologist says this is key to being more confident and powerful
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Greece Slows Influx Of Migrants By Reducing Ferries
He said three ships chartered specifically to move migrants to the Greek mainland would be docked at the islands and accommodate refugees for “two or three days”. There was no word of returning migrants or refugees to departure stations. More than 400 ...
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GREEK farmers start to leave roadblocks across the country
Most farmers across Greece abandoned on Saturday the roadblocks they had manned over the last few weeks in protest at proposed tax and pension ...
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EU Med countries express solidarity to GREECE on refugee crisis
Foreign ministers from EU nations bordering the Mediterranean rallied around GREECE, the epicenter of the crisis, during a meeting in Cyprus.
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Signs of Umberto Eco
A tumble of memories. The meeting thirty years ago with our publisher, Jean-Claude Fasquelle: I find Eco zany, brilliant, mischievous, and independent-minded, a Zelig of absolute knowledge, always ready with a witty remark, irrepressible. Another meeting some time before on the Rue de Bizerte, this one shorter, with Gilles Deleuze, who cannot get over the bottomless well of knowledge, the nearly infinite reserve of intelligence that is Umberto: He questions him as one would an Olympic champion, rhapsodizes about his erudition as one might about a circus strong man or bearded lady. What about Leibniz? he asks in a hoarse and teasing voice. And the smell of gasoline that reminded Kafka, in Prague, of his happy days in Paris? And the comparative influences of Ibsen, Svevo, and Irishman James Clarence Mangan in shaping Joyce's poetics? And the telephone number of Stanislas Breton? Does Eco really know by heart the phone numbers of every Parisian specialist on Plotin, Plato, and Greek philosophy in general? Or that colloquium in Milan in the late 1970s: Sciascia, Moravia, and maybe Barthes are there. Umberto has not yet published _The Name of the Rose_ and so is not yet the great popular novelist (inspired by Arsène Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, and the legend of d'Artagnan) that he will soon become, but his elders--why I know not--are already snubbing him a bit. Is it his volubility, his relaxed tone and appearance, his way of raising his glass at dinner to "the art of the false" while reciting passages from Nerval's "Sylvie," subtly and systematically transformed in a way that mystifies us? I see him with my friend Valerio Riva, a marvelous and enigmatic character whom he seems to have known well from Gruppo 63 and his avant-garde youth: Valerio is a writer without a body of work who is running the literary pages of _L'Espresso_, but Umberto spends the lunch mischievously trying to make him admit that he is a Russian agent, a Castro-ite conspirator, or the holder of the last secrets of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the red billionaire who killed himself while trying to blow up a power-line pylon near Milan. Going a little farther back, to the mid-1970s and a university lecture hall in Rome, I see him facing a full house, livid at those known then as the Autonomists: He is teaching in Bologna at the time but, like me, is in Rome at the invitation of the far-left daily _Lotta Continua_ to try to explain to a crowd of restless, rootless young people that "armed struggle" is a monstrosity, a rehash of fascism, madness. Outside, on a wall, a student has painted "Eco, Lévy, we're going to put a bullet in your mouth." Later, on the Rue des Saints-Pères in Paris, a conversation with Lucien Bodard, whom he recommended to Jean-Jacques Annaud for the movie version of _The Name of the Rose_: They resemble two equally entangled albatrosses, one of which appears to be sulking while the other, Umberto, is stunning us with his thoughts on the ancient Greeks' methods of manufacturing the equivalent of cyanide from peach pits. A meeting at the Elysée Palace with François Mitterrand, who has just made Umberto and Elie Wiesel responsible for a new universal academy of cultures: He explains that day that he lost his faith while reading Saint Thomas Aquinas, that Napoleon was poisoned by the wallpaper in his room at Longwood, that nothing resembles a reclusive writer more than one who is in the limelight too often, that he no longer reads anything but dictionaries, and that, even if he doesn't believe in "academies" or in the "world" or, for that matter, in "culture," he is willing to go along with the project. Later, in Paris again, at a writers' conference that I organized with Arte at Trocadéro, where Umberto is giving the closing speech: Europe? Yes, of course, Europe! As in spaghetti westerns, Sophocles, a taste for translation, writing in the fog, the art of love, and love of the endless sentence. New York. He doesn't have much longer to live, and we're waiting in the green room of the Charlie Rose show for Charlie to interview us one after the other: I find him thicker, a bit sad, but as soon as the camera finds him he recovers his verve and explains, with mock contrition, that the Italy of Berlusconi has become, for the second time, the world's political laboratory. Soon enough we will have Donald Trump ... And then in his library near Milan, where the visit to the great writer took on the form of a visit to a great library: labyrinth, rhizome, and inspired chaos, in the midst of which Umberto stood, his eyes closed, real life, fittingly, living in the books. I write these recollections as they come to me, in no particular order, a modest contribution to the monument that his grateful country, Europe, has already begun to build to his memory. _Translated by Steven B. Kennedy_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. 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Thousands rally at GREEK-Macedonian border calling for open borders
Thousands of migrants, stranded on the GREEK frontier with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), have staged an angry protest, ...
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From “meh” to “yay”
I got a plentiful plate of chicken souvlaki (chicken kabob) with GREEK salad, rice pilaf, tzatziki, and pita bread for $8.95. David ordered the beef version ...
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GREECE to house refugees on ferries as thousands stranded in desperate conditions
Refugees and other migrants pouring into GREECE will be kept on Aegean Sea islands on ferries used as floating shelters, government officials said, as ...
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Ilinden crossing at Bulgaria-GREECE border closed for HGVs
Sofia. As of 6:00 am on Saturday, the Ilinden crossing at the Bulgarian-Greek border was closed for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), while traffic at the ...
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GREECE is the word for soccer fans
Etihad Stadium yesterday was announced as the second venue for the Socceroos-GREECE double header to be played on June 7. Sydney's Olympic ...
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Unless outrageous things at Bulgaria-GREECE border come to end in 2 days, I will go to border: PM
Mr Borisov informed he had not backed the idea of building a fence between Bulgaria and GREECE as people especially in Bulgaria's district of ...
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Thousands stuck on Greek border as Balkans cap migrant arrivals
[More than 5,000 people are trapped at Idomeni on Greece's border with Macedonia after four Balkan countries impose a daily cap on migrant arrivals]More than 5,000 people were stuck at the Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border with Macedonia on Saturday after four Balkan countries announced a daily cap on migrant arrivals.
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The Latest: Slovenian protests for migrants and against them
[A Syrian Kurdish woman holds her son at the port of Mytilene, after a rescue operation of refugees and migrants by the Greek coast guard near the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. Border restrictions further north in the Balkans have left thousands of refugees and other migrants stranded in a country that is still wracked by its own financial crisis and unable to seal its lengthy sea border with Turkey. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)]IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the massive movement of migrants into and across Europe (all times local):
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Massive Reservation Cancellations Strike Greece’s Tourism Industry
Greece‘s tourism – one of the country’s most core financial resources – is facing a great threat, as massive cancellations in reservations are occurring in touristic destinations where there are refugee and migrant flows. According to an interview ...
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Greece's Ambassador to Vienna has been recalled to Athens
Athens is seething over a series of border restrictions along the migrant trail to northern and western Europe that has caused a bottleneck in Greece, notably leaving thousands refugees stranded on its soil after Macedonia denied all passage to Afghans and ...
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Greece is fast becoming the "warehouse of human beings" that its government has vowed to not allow
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is fast becoming the "warehouse of human beings" that its government has vowed not to allow. Hastily setup camps for refugees and other migrants are full. Thousands of people wait through the night, shivering in the cold at ...
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GREEK Opposition New Democracy lead over SYRIZA grows at 4.3% in new poll
Main opposition New Democracy party (ND) has taken a significant lead over ruling SYRIZA party, at a new GREEK poll published on Saturday which ...
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Child and Family Protection Centers Set Up Along European Migration Route
Turk says he became particularly conscious of the fear gripping refugee children when he was at the GREEK-FYROM border a couple of weeks ago.
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'Open the borders': thousands call for end to Balkan route restrictions
Thousands of migrants, stranded on the Greek frontier with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), have staged an angry protest, calling…
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GREECE to halt migration from islands as EU borders close
Some 25,000 refugees and migrants are now thought to be stranded in GREECE, with the closure of borders along the route that migrants take through ...
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IMF Predicts Difficulties in Greece’s Debt Management
The IMF estimates that Greece will face difficulties in the management of her debt by the end of March, according to an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel, with the title “Bankruptcy already in May?” According to the piece “the Fund is specifically worried about the willingness of many country-members of the European Union giving
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Jack Lew: Proceed With the Evaluation Without Any Further Delay
The United States incited Europe to proceed with Greece‘s evaluation regarding the bailout program without any further delay and to keep their promise regarding the “trimming” of the country’s debt. In a talk with Wolfgang Schäuble, US Finance Minister Jack Lew, said that there is still a lot of work left to be done by
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Greek Budget Shows 1.189 bln Euro Primary Surplus in Jan.
The Greek state budget recorded a surplus of 1.073 billion euros in January, the Finance ministry said. In a report, the ministry said that the primary surplus was 1.189 billion euros. Based on an amended cash basis, the state budget recorded a surplus of ...
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Macedonia reopens its border to Iraqi, Syrian migrants
[A boy shouts slogans as he holds a placard during a protest by refugees and migrants in front of the wire fence that separates the Greek side from the Macedonian one at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. Greek officials said not a single migrant has been allowed into northern neighbor Macedonia with more than 5,000 people waiting at or near a border crossing to be admitted. More than 20,000 migrants are stuck in Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)]IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — Macedonia reopened its border to Iraqi and Syrian asylum-seekers on Saturday, hours after migrants protested peacefully on the Greek side of the border, demanding admission into Macedonia.
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The science behind leap years and how they work
[calendar]Flickr/Dafne Cholet Most of the time, a year is made up of 365 days. But this year, just like 2012, and the year four years before that, has 366. And that vital extra day, a leap day, is (partly) what keeps our calendars in working order. As users of a solar calendar, we rely on the sun to tell us how long a year is and when each of the four seasons begins. It was devised to match our farming habits and as a reliable – and visible – guide to the passing of time. The sun’s position on the horizon as it rises and sets moves over the course of a year, further south in the winter, and further north in the summer. This significant change is used to mark midwinter or midsummer at famous locations such as Stonehenge and New Grange. But as a very specific measure, one year, better described as a tropical year, is defined as the time between one spring equinox and the next being 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds. This period is often rounded up to 365 and a quarter days – although even the Greek astronomer Hipparchus realized over 2,000 years ago that this was a generous approximation – and so to keep our years aligned and reassuringly predictable, a leap day is added to the calendar every four years to allow for the accumulation of those otherwise overlooked four extra quarters. MOVING SEASONS [spring]Flickr/Dafne Cholet If we kept every year at a fixed 365 days, the months would gradually shift with the sun until in 750 years' time, June, in the northern hemisphere, would fall in the middle of winter. Planning for the future would gradually become more and more complicated, and religious traditions with a seasonal element, such as Christmas and Easter, would become hopelessly out of kilter. So there has been a considerable motivation for cultures to keep their calendars precise and predictable – and establishing a workable system was a considerable demonstration of power by the rulers of historic empires. The current length of each month and therefore the length of a year dates back to the Roman dictator Julius Caesar. This “Julian” calendar included leap days but they instead occurred every three years. When Augustus – Julius Caesar’s heir –became emperor he corrected this mistake and celebrated his power and understanding of celestial movements through monuments such as the giant sundial of Augustus. This huge meridian sundial once stood on the Campus Martius in Rome, its calendrical functionality a constant reminder of Augustus' greatness. But the Julian calendar was not perfect either, since the year was in fact just a little bit shorter than 365.25 days. Pope Gregory corrected this mistake in his Gregorian calendar of 1582. As well as adding a leap day every four years, he also opted to lose three days every 400 years. This was a Catholic decision, which Protestant and Orthodox calendars resisted for some time. Greece was the last country to accept the Gregorian reform in 1923. MORE TIME NEEDED [clock time]Flickr/Dafne Cholet The modern result of all this squabbling is our current system of adding an extra day every four years. To adjust for the uneven precision of the fraction, every 100 years we also skip this rule and drop the extra day. Then, every 400 years we skip the skipping rule and have an extra day again. Yes, it’s complicated. The year 2000, for example, was a leap year, since it was divisible by four. But since it was also divisible by 400, the dropping of the extra day every 100 years was not carried out. This long-term solution creates an average year length of 365.2425 days, still slightly off the required target of 365.2421897 days, making even this complicated modern arrangement incorrect by one day over a period of just under 4,000 years. This error is part of the reason why we sometimes include leap seconds at the end of June or December. However, this is not done in a regular fashion and is determined by the deviation of the calendar by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. Since this adjustment is so small it is influenced by the general slowing down of the Earth’s rotation and the complex system of all the solar system bodies upon Earth. So not only are leap years the result of millennia of mathematical work, they are also the consequence of rulers imposing their will on people’s day to day lives, and the gradual understanding of our place in the universe. Controlling calendars means controlling the rhythms of a culture – which is something for all of us to think about on February 29. _Daniel Brown, Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article._ NOW WATCH: This recent discovery at Stonehenge clears up a huge misconception about the monument
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GREEK farmers open the roads, voice disappointment
GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday announced a string of measures to support the agricultural sector in a bid to win the farmers over.
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Europe Refugee Crisis: Thousands Stranded In GREEK Camp After New Arrival Caps In 4 Countries
Europe Refugee Crisis Refugees from Syria wait to cross the GREEK-Macedonian border near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia, Feb. 27, 2016.
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Postecoglou excited for Socceroos friendly against GREECE
This morning Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou announced Australia will be taking on GREECE in an international friendly at Etihad Stadium on June ...
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Checkpoints at border with GREECE open: Bulgaria transport minister
Sofia. “Checkpoints at the border with GREECE are currently open; there are no lines of vehicles on either side,” said Bulgarian transport minister Ivaylo ...
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Bulgarian Union of International Road Carriers ready to stage counter-protest unless Greek farmers lift blockade by 9 am Monday
Sofia. Bulgarian Union of International Road Carriers is ready to stage a counter-protest if the Greek farmers do not lift the blockade at the Bulgarian-Greek border by 9:00 am on Monday, February 29, at the latest, the organisation announced. The ...
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Nearly 6000 Refugees Await Entry to Macedonia on GREEK Border
GREEK police transferred Afghan migrants and refugees to camps in the northern village of Diavata several days ago, amid Macedonia refused entry to ...
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Schaeuble hints Germany willing to allow Greece some leeway due to refugee crisis
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble hinted his country is willing to allow Greece some leeway as it struggles with the twins tasks of reforming the economy and caring for an influx of refugees. “The financial situation is difficult,” Schaeuble told reporters at a Group of 20 briefing in Shanghai. “Greece […]
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Soccer-Greek championship results and standings
Feb 27 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Greek championship matches on Saturday Saturday, February 27 Kalloni 2 Platanias 1 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Olympiakos Piraeus 23 21 1 1 57 12 64 2 AEK Athens 23 14 4 5 37 17 46 3 Panathinaikos ...
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Migrant Crisis Hits Greece Tourism
An invasion of thousands of refugees and migrants daily looks to dent the prospects of another record-saving tourism season for Greece.
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The Logistics of Farmer Roadblocks in Greece
Greek farmers have been protesting for days by blocking highways across Greece. How do they set up and operate their roadblocks? We asked protesting Greek farmers about the logistics and what it takes to set up roadblocks in Greece. Watch the video.
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More Than 20,000 Refugees and Migrants Hemmed in Greece
According to ANA-MPA, the situation in Idomeni is still out of control as at least 5,500 refugees and migrants are trapped at the borders waiting to cross in the neutral zone of the FΥRΟΜ. In addition, 437 more refugees arrived on Saturday morning in Pireaus port. Despite the thousands of refugees and migrants that are
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Eyewitness: Idomeni, Greece
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Border situation worsens in Greece
More than 5,000 people were trapped at the Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border with Macedonia on Saturday after four Balkan countries announced a daily cap on migrant arrivals. The buildup began in earnest last week after Macedonia began refusing ...
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Greece overwhelmed with refugees as neighbors tighten borders
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the EU risks turning his country into a refugee “warehouse” unless other nations in the bloc share the burden of the migrant crisis. Athens says it will block future EU agreements if the refugee problem isn’t ...
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PM Turnbull confronted by protesters in Melbourne CBD
HUNDREDS of pro-refugee protesters marched up to the Lonsdale St GREEK Festival where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader ...
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GREECE slows migrant transfers from islands to mainland
GREECE has cut back on bringing migrants and refugees from the Aegean islands to the mainland after neighboring Balkan countries closed their ...
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Australian Volunteer Nurse Recalls Harrowing Months at GREECE'S Refugee Ground Zero
The following was provided to us by Helen Zahos, an Australian nurse who spent several months of her own time volunteering in GREECE, supporting ...
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Interview: Grammy Winner Christopher King brings Primitive Greek Folk To Steady Sounds This Weekend
… a remote village in 1920s Greece. The increasingly well-known Faber, Va … Turks ruled mainland Greece but also most of Greek intellectual thought was … as you’ve traveled to Greece a bunch of times now …
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Schaeuble Hints Germany May Be Ready to Give Greece Some Leeway
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble hinted his country is willing to allow Greece some leeway as it struggles with the twins tasks of reforming the economy and caring for an influx of refugees. “The financial situation is difficult,” Schaeuble ...
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President Pavlopoulos wants sanctions against EU members closing borders
The President of Greek Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos asked for direct sanctions against those EU member countries violating the European rules. With a direct hint to EU member countries’ behavior in the Refugee Crisis, Pavlopoulos said “While in the Economic and Monetary Union, there are rules and sanction mechanisms and when […]
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IMF claims “Greece promised Primary Surplus 3.5% of GDP per year”
With this – Refugee Crisis – and that – borders closure, EU’s inability to solve the issue -, we, the Greeks, forgot the economic crisis, and the lenders. Forgot? Not exactly. We just focused on another, equally important tissue that makes the economic dead-end even worse. But here comes the […]
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