With thousands of migrants and refugees pouring into Greece daily the country is finding itself isolated by EU policies leaving it to fend for itself.
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, February 26, 2016
World Press View: Greece’s Migrant Crisis Gets Worse
No passage for Afghans on Balkan route into West Europe
Despite fleeing attacks in their homeland from the Taliban and alleged Islamic State militants, their quest for a safer life is being blocked at border after border in Europe — and no country along the route wants to take the blame. Serbia says it's blocking the Afghans after holding talks with Slovenia to the north and with Austria, which borders Slovenia and represents the end of the Balkan migrant route for those fleeing war, violence and economic hardship in the Mideast, Africa or Asia. A chain of deportations ... (is) taking place all the way down the Balkan land route," said U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, adding that Afghans stranded between Macedonia and Greece are exposed to "abject conditions. While no Europeans officials are willing to say why the Afghans are not being allowed to travel through, it would be difficult to claim that they, as a group, no longer qualify for asylum because security has improved back home. "If they want to block the road, they should block (it) for all," declared Azizi, who says he was an interpreter for NATO forces in Afghanistan, not an occupation looked upon kindly by the Taliban. Karl-Heinz Grundboeck, her Austrian counterpart, also said his country remains open to all seeking asylum — as long as the number applying at its southern border does not exceed 80 people a day. At a meeting Monday in Vienna, regional interior and foreign ministers announced specific new border controls and warned that borders across Europe may close for all sooner or later. At a Serbian crossing point into Croatia, from where migrants are taken by train to the Slovenian border, refugee agency field worker Giorgi Sanikidze said the regulations for who could come in are changing "on a daily basis."
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Greek PM Tsipras says EU must agree on burden sharing on migrants
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday all European Union member states should agree to a compulsory burden sharing over the migrants crisis. Tsipras said the population of migrants and refugees in the country had been accumulating since neighbouring states progressively restricted border passage through the Balkans. "We will demand that all member states share the responsibility of a crisis which is beyond us," Tsipras told journalists. "We cannot continue together if our only concern is that each get on with it themselves." (Reporting By Renee Maltezou)
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EU Is Making an Emergency Plan for Greece, Says EU Spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud
As the Greek migrant crisis is reaching its breaking point, spokeswoman for the European Commission Natasha Bertaud said that the EU is making an emergency plan so a humanitarian crisis can be averted in Greece. There are more than 25,000 stranded in Greece and the numbers keep growing by thousands on a daily basis as
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Leaders Continue UN Peace Talks
The leaders of the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, are meeting this afternoon Friday, February 26, in the framework of the UN-backed talks for the Cyprus problem. Their last meeting was held on February 13, when the two leaders exchanged views on the
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Balkan States and Austria Impose Severe Limits to Migrant Flows
Following the Vienna meeting earlier this week between Austria and 9 Balkan states to discuss ways to tackle the migrant crisis, the governments of most of the countries that took part in the controversial meeting that caused much anger in Greece but also in Germany have now sealed of their borders. The heads of the
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Greek Cyprus cuts compulsory military service by 10 months
Greek Cyprus Defense Minister Christoforos Fokaides said professional soldiers will be hired to make up the shortfall in the standing force's numbers, which will be created as soldiers are discharged earlier.He said the move will improve the mostly ...
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