How the world sees Greece
Johnny Hooper scored three goals but the United States men's junior national water polo team dropped a 7-6 decision to Greece in the second day of competition at the FINA Men's Junior World Championship in Belgrade, Serbia on Monday. Hooper scored as many ...
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A foreign investment worth €408 million planned for Aghios Nikolaos in the island of Crete has been approved by the Greek government. The project, known as “Elounda Hills” by the Mirum Hellas consortium, has been evaluated and recommended by the ...
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Despite the absence of major star Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greece dispatched Romania, dispatched Romania to begin its preparation ahead of the EuroBasket with an impressive manner. Kostas Papanikolaou scored 17 points as Greece beat Romania 106 – 48 in the ...
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It's the start of the week in 3D printing (and everything else), and we've compiled some of today's smaller stories into a roundup of bite-size snippets.
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Greece’s GDP shrunk by 61.6 billion euros (26 percent) since 2010, the time span when three bailout memorandums with institutional creditors were signed and implemented, figures showed this week. Additionally, general government revenues decreased by ...
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Every Greek island has its own personal characteristics. There are cosmopolitan as well as deserted Islands. Some have an intense night life, while others are calmer and more suitable for family holidays. There are those who offer a variety of exhilarating ...
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Greece will soon launch two new international tenders for the concession of hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation rights in the Ionian Sea and Crete. The new tenders will be launched after applications submitted by the Total-ExxonMobil-Hellenic ...
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… binges before then-Premier and PASOK Socialist leader George Papandreou in 2010 signed … by 19.13 billion euros, Kathimerini said while at the same … report, entitled The Greek Economy, published by Greece’s now independent statistical …
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Greece received six expressions of interest for the sale of a 66 percent stake in state natural gas grid operator DESFA, the country’s privatization agency (HRADF) said in a press release on Monday. The investor groups that responded to the tender are: -Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Ltd -A consortium of Italy’s Snam, Spain’s Enagas … The post Greece receives six expressions of interest for gas grid operator DESFA appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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ATHENS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Greece has received six expressions of interest in a 66 percent stake in its natural gas grid operator DESFA, the country's privatisation agency said on Monday. Greece, in its eighth year of economic crisis, is aiming for 2 ...
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Recently, the Israeli-run Jerusalem District Court upheld three real-estate deals between the GREEK Orthodox Church and Ateret Cohanim, a colonist ...
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Iran's football federation condemned two Iranians who play for a GREEK club for participating in a match against an Israeli team, Iranian media reported.
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According to the GREEK Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi, British Pakistani pop star Zayn Malik is amongst the top ten most attractive men in the world.
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Greece’s new production model is based on the “square logic” of: investments, exports, innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, digital education and absorption of unemployed through active employment programs, Economy Minister Dimitri ...
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Six companies and consortium are among bidders to acquire 66% of GREECE'S gas transmission system operator Desfa, the country's privatisation ...
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Concerns for the environment and antiquities are combining with labyrinthine laws, zealous officialdom and hostile political ideology in Greece to create hurdles that even investors familiar with the country cannot understand, Reuters notes in a recent ...
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Festivals in ancient Greece and Rome were important periods of time during which people performed “activities that are most often thought of as communications with the superhuman world.” Marked by a variety of unique cultural rituals and traditions ...
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The use of 3D printing technologies in Victoria University of Wellington’s Classics Museum has students 3D print Greek artefacts to use them the way they were intended—from interacting with 3D printed ancient objects to designing their own amphorae ...
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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Vlad from Mediterranean Sandwich Co. ‘Takes 5’ to join Meteorologist Thomas Geboy for a delicious greek take on the grilled cheese. bake till the cheese is melted and the bread is golden brown.
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Katerina Stefanidi has won her third gold gold medal in a year, breaking Greece’s paul vault record with a 4,91m jump during the World Championships in London. She became the first woman in the history of Greek sport who managed to reach the top in all ...
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We’ve come to know Greek yogurt as a hero of healthy breakfast. Unfortunately, as with most products, the mass demand for Greek yogurt has resulted in a lot of cheap knockoffs. While Greek yogurt should technically be made by straining the whey from ...
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A firefighter douses a burned-out fire truck during a wildfire near Kalyvia in Greece, Thursday Aug. 3, 2017. Three firefighters have been hospitalized with burns and local authorities have issued an evacuation order for residents near a seaside town of ...
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Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the Edinburgh International Festival launches its opera programme with a piece it co-commissioned and whose UK premiere it gave in 1988. Since then, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s first opera — based on Steven ...
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… the compensation it awarded to Greek Cypriot applicants. A relevant bill … the IPC continues to evaluate Greek Cypriot applications. In 2006, 100 … were officially recognised and the Greek Cypriots have nowhere else to …
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… local): 6:50 p.m. Greek authorities say they have contained … were burning Monday, in southern Greece and the western island of …
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… who love the island of Crete, or those who always have … like on Crete, will love "Xamou." The Greek-language film tells … he winds up wandering throughout Crete discovering people and things he …
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… , bicycle tours are commonplace. The Greeks even have a website that … shows hotels from all over Greece, and Crete is also featured with … the biggest Golf Camp in Greece and admire the view of …
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Three out of ten taxpayers did not pay the first installment of income tax due on July 31st. Now, they are at risk to face confiscations if they do settle their arrears as soon as possible. According to available data from the Treasury, 28% of taxpayers, a total of 671,000 people, did not pay the … The post Three out of ten taxpayers did not pay first installment of income tax appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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After, he was like, 'I'm so upset because I wanted to propose to you in GREECE.' And then he proposed to me.” There was, however, a silver lining: ...
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ATHENS: GREECE'S statistics agency on Monday said it would no longer publish flash estimates of its growth figures after wide divergences in data ...
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JOURNALIST: Various circles are arguing that what the Greek and Greek Cypriot sides did in Crans-Montana was not enough, or even right. How do you respond to that? N. KOTZIAS: The vast majority of the Greek people agree with the manner in which we prepared for and carried out the negotiations. At long last, the issue of the occupation of Cyprus by a third country was put on the negotiating table. There was consistency between what we proposed two and a half years ago and what we did in Switzerland. In fact, in contrast with what certain parties are claiming, on the issue of the abolition of the Treaty of Guarantee and, by extension, the abolition of any rights of intervention of the guarantor powers, we succeeded in carving out the widest possible consensus among Cyprus, Greece, the EU, the UN Secretary-General himself and, for most of the time, the UK. I can't understand why this isolation of Turkey's illegal aspirations bothered some people. JOURNALIST: Were there other problems? N. KOTZIAS: In my opinion, the biggest longstanding problem was and is that we could not “emancipate” the Turkish Cypriots away from Turkey; that we did not stress enough that the Turkish Cypriots now feel like strangers in their homeland and live under a military regime. That they suffered and are suffering just like the Greek Cypriot refugees. They are suffering from the militarism as well as from the settlers who are altering their culture, traditions and characteristics. JOURNALIST: Were there shortfalls on your part as well? N. KOTZIAS: The line we fought on was right, both practically and on the level of ideas. The shortfalls I saw on our part in Crans-Montana were that, first, we did not take care to point up, from the outset, the material interests associated with a specific group that sees unconditional surrender as negotiation. For example, on his visits to Greece, Mr. Eide met in secret with businesspeople (and why would he do that?) who, it appears, are associated with specific international players and choices regarding the Cyprus problem. Also present at these meetings were some of the journalists who like to attack me personally and try to denigrate the joint effort of the Greek and Cypriot governments. Second, that Mr. Eide took us to this stage of the negotiations without having prepared adequately. Third, for a long time we allowed him to tell multiple lies. I pointed them out to him one by one at the Conference itself. He knew he was lying, but it didn't bother him that he was caught red handed. Fortunately, he was forced into retraction when, in a document, he tried to present his positions as ours. I'm afraid he is continuing to employ this tactic even after Switzerland. JOURNALIST: You revealed Ankara's true intentions to the Hellenic Parliament. Can you set out the most important ones? N. KOTZIAS: Turkey aimed to legitimize its occupation and, if it could, extend it to the whole of the island. This is why it never answered my question as to whether its position "for continuation of the Treaty of Guarantee over Cyprus" means continuation of the de facto partitioning of Cyprus or pursuing to control the whole island. In the end, Turkey admitted that it wanted, through preserving the right of intervention, to intervene unilaterally throughout the island whenever it saw fit. This was the point of rupture with the UN Secretary-General, leading to the end of the negotiations.But it makes one wonder what exactly are they after, all those who raged at our refusal to grant such a right to Turkey. A right that runs counter to the principles of the UN, the EU, international law, democratic political culture, the very values of the Enlightenment, according to which the army must be subordinate to political leadership. But it also runs counter to everything the Turks themselves accuse the putschist officers of; officers who commanded the occupation forces in Cyprus, as we saw from the arrests of a number of officers in occupied Cyprus. So, there are some people who – instead of calling us maximalists – would do well to explain why giving Turkey the right to intervention throughout the island is a solution to the Cyprus problem. And it is also worth asking how is it that they refuse to see and accept what the UN Secretary-General himself stated, namely, that it is inconceivable for there to be rights of intervention over an independent member state of the UN and the EU. JOURNALIST: Do you think Turkey is prepared for a solution? How can this stance be changed? N. KOTZIAS: I believe that some members of the Turkish political system and establishment have a problem seeing the changes in today's world and, instead conduct themselves as if we were still in the age of colonialism and protectorates. They also find it hard to accept relinquishing, through diplomatic means, what they believe they gained through military action. They find it equally difficult to obey the Iraqi government's calls for them to withdraw from Iraqi territory. At the same time, I believe that powerful forces within Turkey want a real and substantial solution. We need to help them move in such a direction. This is why we support the democratization and Europeanization of the Turkish society. A European Turkey will be a major gain for all of us. But this certainly isn't achieved by bowing to sultanic-type demands and ‘oriental bargaining’. Following the conference, those who support Turkey's positions for a "solution” of the Cyprus problem are essentially hindering the evolution that has to take place in Turkey's thinking. JOURNALIST: Were there other players, besides Turkey, whose stance had a negative effect? Mr. Eide, for example? N. KOTZIAS: Yes, there were. But that's not to be discussed right now. What's more, the knowledge and experience one has plays a major role in negotiations. At some point, Mr. Eide seemed to be confused when I pointed out to him that, starting in 1867, Norway was under a regime of guarantees that was renewed in 1907 and abolished in 1927. At that time, Norway stated that it could not be a member of the League of Nations and, at the same time, be under a system of guarantees from third countries. I explained that, by extension, the same applies to Cyprus as a member of the EU and the UN. Norway took this step at a time when there were still colonies and protectorates. Today, when colonies and protectorates are a thing of the past, there cannot be guarantees for Cyprus. JOURNALIST: What is Greece's stance on the matter of the four freedoms? N. KOTZIAS: Unlike Turkey, Greece stated from the outset that it supports the Republic of Cyprus and will not have – much less express – a view on the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. We fully respected and respect Cyprus as an independent and sovereign state. This stance of ours allowed talks to take place between the two communities without the interference of third parties.The matter of the four freedoms is a particular issue. First of all, it is not directly related to the resolution of the Cyprus problem. It is only indirectly related. In part, it concerns Turkey's relationship with the EU. Turkey wants first to make gains from the EU in order "to facilitate" any steps on the Cyprus issue. The reverse should be the case, with Turkey facilitating the solution to the Cyprus problem and thereby facilitating its European course. More generally, in the case of the four freedoms and the Turkish army, we see Turkey's desire to upgrade its geopolitical/geostrategic position through the Cyprus problem.Finally, it's important to note that while in the first days of the talks the Turkish Cypriots spoke of the need for the occupation forces to remain, so that they could feel secure, later on, towards the end of the talks, they were underscoring that Turkey must become the guarantor of Cyprus' security against third countries. The second position is completely different from the first, and very revealing as to Turkey's true intentions. JOURNALIST: Can the efforts on the Cyprus problem be renewed? Of course, the point is not to hold another Conference for the sake of the conference, but for there to be results. N. KOTZIAS: Negotiations require sobriety, patience and persistence. Belief in the case you are being called upon to defend and promote. They are a marathon "battle" on an open field, and not on an indoor 60-metre track. At the same time, one has to understand that the negotiations are not carried out only at the moment when the various parties meet, but also in many other forms, including public diplomacy, meetings with third parties, citizens’ diplomacy. Success also depends on how convinced your own public are of what you are seeking. In other words, negotiations go through many phases, stages and structures.The Switzerland conference was not well prepared by Mr. Eide. In contrast, we and the Republic of Cyprus were prepared, productive, prudent. We set out a number of proposals. For example, we asked for the abolition of the Treaty of Guarantee and the adoption of a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of the solution. This proposal was adopted by the UN, and the Secretary-General presented his positions on this mechanism; positions that some parties tried to keep out of the discussion. We also presented our proposal for a "Friendship Pact between Turkey, Cyprus and Greece," which would abolish the "Treaty of Alliance" and, by extension, the presence of foreign armies on Cyprus. These proposals, like the two rounds of negotiations in Switzerland in 2017, are our common "endowment", and it is with them that we will go to the next round of negotiations, which will have to be adequately prepared in order for it to succeed. We dream of a Cyprus that is independent, territorially integral, sovereign, federal, with its people active in the realisation of its future. JOURNALIST: Greece has stated that it is involved only in the Security issues. The other issues concern the functioning of the state, the country. As a matter of principle, how would you see Cyprus after the solution? What characteristics would it have? N. KOTZIAS: At the beginning of the negotiations, I introduced a term: "Cyprus as a normal state". Through this term, I tried to alter the manner in which the discussion had been carried out until then. I underscored that we must agree on what kind of state we want Cyprus to evolve into following the agreement, in the "new state of affairs". That Cyprus must become a normal state; that is, independent and sovereign, without guarantees from third countries or occupation troops. No one objected to this. In fact, I had the honour of the UN Secretary-General's adopting the term. I then explained that, if we all agree that this is our goal, then all of the problems – particularly with regard to the external aspect of the Cyprus problem, which involves/concerns Greece – must be resolved from the perspective of this goal. My critics, in contrast with the EU and the UN, want a semi-colonial Cyprus. And this is the root of all our differences. JOURNALIST: Is there room in EU-Turkish relations for the Cyprus issue to be used as a tool for pressuring Turkey? What is your stance on the Customs Union upgrade that is under discussion? N. KOTZIAS: Last Monday and Tuesday I was in Cyprus to discuss how we will proceed from here. Among the issues is the EU-Turkey Customs Union. I believe we need to contribute towards its implementation, which could add a turnover of 50 to 60 billion euros to Turkey, on the condition that Turkey not attempt to divide the EU, as it did in Cyprus. That is, to divide the latter into states with which it will do business and states with which it will not have transactions; into states it respects and states it does not respect, as it has tried to do until now. JOURNALIST: How far might the Turkish provocations in the Cypriot EEZ and in the Aegean go, and how are they being handled? N. KOTZIAS: The Erdogan era, at least to date, is an era in which no 'hot incident' has taken place. There may be provocations in the Aegean and in the EEZ of the Republic of Cyprus, but they have not been planned to provoke a ‘hot incident’. What concerns me is that the provocations of Turkey – a revisionist and restless power – could easily lead to errors and accidents. That's why it would be good for the provocations to stop, for there to be self-restraint, and to ensure, in this way, that there won't be any escalations.It is also worth studying the connection that exists between Turkey's demand to maintain "rights of intervention" and its conduct with regard to the Cypriot EEZ. JOURNALIST: Your positions and efforts are enjoying almost universal acceptance in Cyprus. Does this weigh you down with more responsibility and pressure? N. KOTZIAS: As a Greek, I feel our historical responsibility in that we did not succeed in averting the Junta's crimes. This is why I have twice publicly apologized to the Cypriots. I have always believed that Greece must contribute towards overcoming everything that followed the crimes of the Athens Junta. I have always acted based on this thinking. I am one of the many Greeks who have dedicated themselves to justice for the Cypriot people. My practical experience from many years in social movements and the Left, from many years at the Foreign Ministry and in universities, gave me knowledge and experience that are useful in the job I am doing. But problems are often larger than people. From this perspective, the Cyprus issue is a problem that requires us to learn every day, to grow, to become more capable. Yesterday's success is no guarantee that anyone will succeed next time. Every step forward increases demands and aspirations, and the weight that accrues can be handled only through reflection, collective effort, sobriety and patience. Yesterday's achievement is yet another reason for one not to become complacent and for one to make even greater efforts. This is my personal relationship with the Cyprus problem, with Cyprus and its people.
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We wonder why Mr. Eide is giving interviews only to Greek-language print media. We are anxious to see when he will speak to a Turkish newspaper and explain Turkey's responsibility for the collapse of the talks. Meanwhile, we ask him to clarify something. During the dinner of 6 July, did the Turkish Foreign Minister in fact accept the abolition of "rights of intervention" and the Treaty of Guarantee from the first day of the Cyprus problem's resolution, as Mr. Eide clearly stated in one of his many interviews? Because it is our conviction that the Turkish Foreign Minister stated the opposite both in the Conference and publicly. Unless Mr. Eide was at another Conference or wanted to hear something else. It appears that Mr. Eide is making statements as someone who intends to resign from the post of UN mediator in favour of taking up what would apparently be the more satisfactory position of spokesperson for the Turkish government. What he said in the same interview, that "Mr. Cavusoglu didn't put it exactly that way," is indicative of the shift he is making.
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Refugee rights activists greet a boat arriving in Naples harbour in May 2017. Cesare Abbate/EPA And still they come. An apparently endless flotilla of rubber dinghies filled with migrants and refugees making their way across the Mediterranean to Europe. As the numbers and visibility of this migration have gathered pace, even mainstream politicians have expressed their alarm. Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has talked of an exodus of biblical proportions. Solutions designed for a few thousand people will not work as a strategy for millions, he warned. In responsible political circles, let alone in the more feverish popular media, there is an increasing recognition that the three conventional “durable solutions” to displacement – local integration, resettlement and return – cannot meet the scale and speed of the movement of people. The international institutional architecture seems unequal to the task. In 2016, there were no fewer than seven international summits to address the refugee and migrant “crisis”. What is talked about is often a reboot of what has demonstrably failed before. Emerging, sometimes from unexpected places, have come a number of imaginative solutions. For example, the proposal to create a separate “refugee nation” was first promoted by a Californian businessman, Jason Buzi. Egyptian telecoms billionaire Naguib Sawiris has also sought to buy an island from Greece or Italy to house those crossing the Mediterranean. The most elaborately worked-out island solution is to create a “Europe-in-Africa” city-state on the Tunisian Plateau – a thin strip of seabed that sits between Tunisia and Italy within the Mediterranean. The concept has been modelled in detail by Theo Deutinger, a respected Dutch architect. Other proposals have centred on the creation of “refugee cities” or zones. Drawing from the example of a special economic zone in Jordan near the Za’atari refugee camp, where refugees have been allowed to work rather than languish, migration expert Alex Betts and economist Paul Collier have made the simple but daring point that many refugees can be turned into assets rather than liabilities if the legalities forbidding asylum-seekers seeking paid jobs are set aside. REFUGIA AND THE SESAME PASS My colleague Nicholas Van Hear and I have reviewed most of these proposals and advanced an even more radical plan. Our vision is to create a set of loosely-connected self-governing units we call “Refugia”, brought into being mainly by refugees and displaced people themselves, with some support from sympathisers. Though scattered like an archipelago, Refugia will nonetheless link together many refugee communities – in conflict areas, in neighbouring or transit countries, and in more distant countries of settlement. We are happy to accept the label “utopian” for our scheme, but ours is a more pragmatic idea, a “realistic utopianism” to use a term developed by the philosopher John Rawls. We see Refugia as the outcome of a tacit grand bargain – among richer states and emerging countries, nearby countries affected by conflict and, crucially, refugees themselves. After discussions with representatives of Refugia, new constituent zones will be licensed by the nation states within whose territories they lie. Refugee camps, hostels, farming communities, self-built housing estates or suburbs of a town might all join Refugia. Though subject to the host states’ laws, zones are created from below. They are self-governing and eventually self-supporting. The upshot is that Refugians hold dual affinities: as well as an affiliation to Refugia they can be long-term residents of the states that license their territories. They can move among different parts of Refugia, and, where negotiated, between sovereign nations. How the ‘Sesame Pass’ would work. Author provided Refugians will be issued with a “Sesame Pass”, a super-smart, biometric card that opens up and connects all the nodes and zones of Refugia. This will provide those who have it with a collective identity, the right to vote for a transnational parliament, legal status, entitlements and the facilitation of work, financial transfers and enhanced mobility. The Sesame Pass could also be developed as a machine-readable currency, which will allow tax collection or the administration of a basic income grant for all Refugians. There is some sense in which an embryonic form of Refugia already exists. As the length of time in refugee camps has lengthened and more refugees have been accommodated in or near cities, organic urban settlements have developed. A good example is Camp Domiz, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq that has been badged a “Refugee republic”, as its inhabitants have set up community centres, shops and mosques. THE DISPLACED IN CONTROL OF THEIR FUTURE In our vision, Refugia is essentially self-organised and self-managed. It does not require political or cultural conformity, rather it subscribes to the principles and deeds of solidarity and mutual aid. But it is absolutely possible that desperation might drive the European Union to come up with a radical blueprint for a dystopian form of Refugia, which does not fit these principles. In September 2016, Hungary’s right-wing prime minister Victor Orban suggested that the EU should build a “refugee city” in North Africa. Not only was this explicitly about repression enforced by military might, Orban also declared that “those who came [to Europe] illegally must be rounded up and shipped out”. While we must be on the guard for forms of Refugia that are nakedly about subjugation, new territorial units initiated from above should not be discarded in principle. There is no reason why, where these proposals comply with Refugia’s democratic and tolerant values, they should not be incorporated as nodes within the wider idea. Precisely because they have been disempowered by their traumatic experiences, those who have been displaced do not need things done to them and may even resist things being done for them. Ideally, Refugians will be in charge of as much of Refugia as is practically possible. This is the promise of the many small initiatives and inventive new solutions in this utopian vision of what could be possible. [The Conversation] _Robin Cohen 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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