A 60-year-old man on Friday confessed to the murder of a couple and their two children in the town of Andravida, Peloponnese Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Greek Man Confesses to Murder of Family of Four in Andravida
Russia Ignores Ceasefire for Civilian Evacuation in Mariupol, Ukraine says
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a temporary ceasefire in the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha so that civilians can leave safely. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Russia Passes ‘Fake News’ Law Giving Offenders up to 15 Years in Prison
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a fake news law punishing those who spread it with up to 15 years in prison Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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How the War in Ukraine Affects the Greek Economy
The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Greek economy, particularly on energy, tourism and raw materials has alarmed households and the government alike Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Greece’s Unknown Submerged Ancient Bridge
Greece is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful countries in Europe, and the submerged bridge of Itea shows just that Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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My Corfu Love Story: A feel good romance short read set in Corfu Greece
The moment Spyri and Markos meet again, sparks begin to fly… Do you love Greek romances? How about clean love stories about second chances? This short read will take you straight to Corfu, to ...
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Ministry announces a total of 3,155 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Greece so far
… Ukrainian refugees had arrived in Greece over the preceding 24 hours … Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Greece, including 906 minors.
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High yields on Greek islands
… homes in emblematic parts of Greece have by far the highest … relation to purchase prices, rendering Greek island real estate exceptionally attractive … soared during the pandemic, with Greece, Spain and France in the …
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Greece prepares to host Ukrainian refugees
… data about the Ukrainians in Greece and the formalities of … five Ukrainian children are attending Greek schools, under the “Inclusive … but successful to evacuate Greek citizens from the Ukraine … efforts made to help Greek expatriates leave the country.
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Why it’s more difficult to flee Ukraine if you’re not from Ukraine
[A tall, slim Black man in a dark hoodie, seen though a slightly misty train window, holds onto a handrail. He looks toward the camera, his face grave.] A Black refugee, fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, waits on train in Przemysl, Poland, near the border with Ukraine. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Non-Ukrainian refugees are trapped between racism and Cold War geopolitics. An estimated 1 million people have already fled Russia’s war on Ukraine, and many European Union nations are welcoming Ukrainians with open arms. But non-Ukrainian citizens face an uncertain immediate future: Some have had difficulty trying to flee, and those who’ve managed to cross the border may not be able to find refuge in the European Union, at least for the long term. That has put foreigners who adopted Ukraine as their home in a difficult situation, one aggravated by longstanding political and social factors, including the continuing embrace of Cold War policy, the inherent limits of the European Union’s will to welcome non-Europeans, and pervasive (though not necessarily overt) racism. The EU and United Nations have been adamant that anyone who wants to leave Ukraine should be allowed to do so. But on the ground, a number of non-Ukrainians of color, including Africans, Afghans, and Yemenis, have reported facing discrimination while waiting in line at the border and while trying to access critical resources. While official statistics on the number of non-Ukrainian refugees facing such issues haven’t yet been compiled, the sheer volume of troubling reports has led to rebukes from United Nations diplomats and refugee officials. The EU recently issued a framework for member countries to process non-Ukrainian refugees. All member states agreed on Thursday to allow some non-Ukrainians to automatically obtain asylum through the same pathway as Ukrainian citizens. But it’s not clear just how many non-Ukrainians will have access to the program, and which will need to return to their countries of origin. For some, that uncertainty — as well as the prospect of having to go back to their home countries — is daunting. “I thought my whole life would be in Ukraine. My family doesn’t know who I am anymore,“ one medical student from Morocco, whose name is being withheld to protect their safety, told Vox. “Morocco isn’t as safe as everyone thinks, especially when it comes to expressing political opinions.” It’s not yet clear whether Morocco will be deemed risky enough for that student to gain access to the newly announced asylum program. And that lack of clarity is a reminder that the EU’s current open-arms approach to Ukrainian refugees is an exception to the continent’s refugee policy, not an indication of a paradigm shift. After a record 1.3 million people sought asylum in Europe in 2015 alone, Europe became more hostile to people seeking refuge at its doorstep, including Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, and sub-Saharan Africans. Having lived for a time in Ukraine isn’t likely to shield anyone from that reality. Race is certainly a factor in Europe’s stance toward Ukrainian refugees. Countries have been much more willing to accept refugees who are perceived as white than those who are not. But it’s not the only factor. Unlike other refugee crises in the recent past, Russia’s assault on Ukraine involves geopolitics that go beyond the immediate conflict. NOT ALL FLEEING THE WAR GET THE SAME TREATMENT LEAVING UKRAINE While everyone fleeing Ukraine has encountered long lines at the borders, often without adequate access to basic necessities and services, some non-Ukrainians have faced particularly poor treatment. Reports include African refugees being pushed to the back of the lines at the border by Ukrainian soldiers or by others trying to flee. Some were even reportedly turned away at hotels in cities close to the Polish border. Poland has suggested that these reports are inaccurate. Polish Ambassador to the UN Krzysztof Szczerski has said that his country allows anyone who arrives at the border to cross, even without a valid visa or passport, and that arriving refugees have represented nearly 125 nationalities. “The nationals of all countries who suffered from Russian aggression or whose life is at risk can seek shelter in my country,” he said at a UN General Assembly meeting on Monday. But those on the ground have told a different story. Many refugees of color who’ve succeeded in crossing the border say they did so only after multiple attempts, and after being deprioritized in favor of white Ukrainians. “It was just a blanket bias against foreigners to favor Ukrainians and allow them to cross the border and access help first,” Asya, a Kenyan national who was studying medicine in Ukraine, told Vox. [A Black man with short hair leans against a wall clad in grey marble. He wears a yellow and blue jacket, and his face is obscured by his hand, which bears a large, rectangular ring. White people await a train behind him.] Ethan Swope/Bloomberg via Getty Images A Nigerian student covers his face, crying, after reportedly being told by Ukrainian officials at a train station in Lviv that he wasn’t allowed to leave for Poland. And it’s not just an issue faced by Black refugees. There have been reports of Afghans being turned away, and advocates have shared narratives of Yemeni students facing extreme violence. Diplomats and world leaders have spoken out against these incidents and cited global commitments the European Union must follow during times of crisis. “We strongly condemn this racism and believe that it is damaging to the spirit of solidarity that is so urgently needed today,” Kenyan Ambassador to the UN Martin Kimani said Monday at the security council meeting. But for many migration advocates and people trying to flee Ukraine, these difficulties reflect broader issues with how Europe treats migrants. RACE AND GEOPOLITICS ARE PLAYING A ROLE IN THE SCALE OF EUROPE’S RESPONSE It’s clear that race and identity have affected Europe’s response to this refugee crisis. At least one European political leader has stressed that they feel Ukrainians’ perceived whiteness, tendency toward Christianity, and “Europeanness” makes them more palatable than past refugee populations. “These people are Europeans,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said last week. “These people are intelligent. They are educated people. ... This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists.” Rhetoric like Petkov’s hasn’t arisen in a vacuum. It is very much a consequence of the 2015 arrival of Syrians — who, similar to Ukrainians, were fleeing an authoritarian leader destroying their country. Between 2014 and 2016, millions of Syrians, North Africans, and others arrived in Europe. Some countries, though not all, initially welcomed them. Then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel arguably staked her political career on her decision to open her country’s doors; 1.7 million people applied for asylum in Germany in the five years after. But the influx of people — and the public debates over how to handle those Syrians — helped_ _fuel the rise of populist, anti-immigration, euroskeptic, and far-right parties across Europe. [A bearded man in a dark jacket and a bright blue shirt holds a baby in a puffy pink and blue striped coat; a woman in a black hijab and grey sweater walks next to him. Both the man and woman are smiling. They pass groups of refugees, sitting in the dim light of a white walled shelter covered in graffiti. ] Andreas Gebert/picture alliance via Getty Images Syrian refugees await aid in a shelter at the border of Austria and Germany in September 2015. The rise of those parties not only led to Europe embracing a more nativist stance on migration but also struck fear in politicians who might have previously been more welcoming. Governing parties such as French President Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche have become hawkish on migration in recent years, and in 2020, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Greece as Europe’s “shield” against asylum seekers and migrants. To this day, migration remains politically fraught in Europe. It’s recently manifested in Poland deciding to deploy troops and construct a $400 million wall to repel predominantly Muslim asylum seekers at its border with Belarus. To complicate the situation, Belarus was accused of transporting those asylum seekers to the Polish border with false promises of easy passage as a means of antagonizing the EU over sanctions imposed in 2020. And Hungary has passed laws criminalizing support for asylum seekers and limiting the right to asylum; it’s also allowed police to automatically expel any unauthorized migrants — all measures predominantly affecting Muslims. History and foreign policy are two other elements driving the disparate treatment of Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians. The so-called Refugee Convention, signed in 1951 by 145 nations, was initially meant to protect people who had been displaced as a result of World War II in Europe. But it became a weapon Europe used to fight the Cold War, as countries began to use it as a legal framework to absorb people who wanted to leave Soviet bloc countries. “It became a way, from a political and moral kind of narrative, to project this idea of the West being better than the East,” said Nando Sigona, chair of international migration and forced displacement at the University of Birmingham. The EU’s decision to absorb Ukrainians is a continuation of that idea. It allows Europe to position itself as a safe bastion for peaceful, democracy-loving people fleeing for their lives from a dangerous and authoritarian Russia. But when it comes to refugees from other parts of the globe, Europe has become less interested in investing in resettlement. That’s because those refugees don’t do much to advance the continent’s geopolitical interests, Sigona said. Certainly, Europe wants to be seen as a benevolent power and leader on humanitarian issues. But accepting refugees from sub-Saharan Africa or Yemen doesn’t serve its objective of advancing the supremacy of Western-style democracies over the Russian political system. “What we’re seeing with Ukraine now is very much a return to the Cold War kind of logic,” Sigona said. Beyond the political considerations, there are also practical issues driving the European response to the refugee crisis. Neighboring European countries are the closest landing spot for Ukrainians who are fleeing, and those Ukrainians currently don’t have a country to go back to. Non-Ukrainians (in some but not all cases, given crises in countries like Yemen or Ethiopia) arguably do. “We don’t really have another choice to respond to this crisis because these people are going to come to Europe,” said Camille Le Coz, a senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute Europe. WHAT’S NEXT FOR NON-UKRAINIANS FLEEING THE WAR? All 27 EU member states have agreed to adopt a directive that instantly grants temporary protection to Ukrainian citizens and some others fleeing Russia’s invasion. It would give them the right to live and work in the European Union for up to three years without going through the EU’s long asylum process that has historically left thousands of refugees in limbo, as well as access to social welfare assistance, medical assistance, and childhood education. The fate of non-Ukrainians is less clear, however. [A woman and child, both wearing heavy coats and pink hijabs, sit on a cot. The woman is speaking to another child, standing to her left, in a pink coat. In front of them, in a carrier, is a baby with a blue blanket up to their chin. Behind the family are rows and rows and of black cots, each with a pillow and a brown blanket.] Beata Zawrzel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A family of non-Ukrainian refugees rests in a temporary shelter in Korczowa, Poland, on March 2, 2022. The EU is not offering automatic protection to most of them. That’s partly because Poland, among several other member countries, does not want to host non-Ukrainians long term. People who had long-term residency permits in Ukraine would be eligible for that automatic protection. But to otherwise qualify for protection, non-Ukrainians, including stateless individuals, must prove that they were legally residing in Ukraine and are unable to return to their home countries due to the lack of “safe and durable conditions.” It’s not clear how EU countries will determine what constitutes those kinds of conditions. They could also apply for asylum through lengthy, traditional pathways, but there’s no guarantee that they will get it. And without legal status in the EU, they could potentially be forcibly returned to their home countries. “For example, if you’re a Moroccan student, the idea is you go back home. If you’re an Indian student, you go back home,” said Le Coz. “But if you’re an Afghan refugee — because there were some Afghans who had sought refuge in Ukraine or have been evacuated there — it means you can seek asylum in Poland.” The policy has left many non-Ukrainians unsure how to regain the opportunities they’d hoped Ukraine would provide. Ali Sadaka, a dentistry student from Lebanon who was studying in Kharkiv, was reluctant to halt his studies and return home. “We didn’t want to stop. Most Lebanese students don’t have any other opportunities, mainly because our government won’t help us to continue here. There’s an economic crisis,” he told Vox. And for nationals of countries currently involved in conflict, there’s been uncertainty as well. Though Yemenis should receive protection under the EU’s plan, the Yemeni Embassy in Poland posted a statement on February 26 implying that resettlement in the EU would be difficult. There’s been no further information since. Ultimately, though, non-Ukrainian refugees “now have to figure out what they are going to do with their lives,” as Azal Al-Salafi, a researcher at Yemen Policy Center, told Vox. And they have limited time to do so.
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Underground Shelters in Athens Survive Since Second World War
In Athens and the general Attica region, there are several underground shelters that the majority of the population are completely unaware of Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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American Producer Arrested for Trying to Set-up TV Station in Greece on Behalf of Russian Oligarch
American TV producer John Hanick aka “Jack Hanick,” United States citizen, has been charged with violating the Crimea-related United States sanctions in connection with his years-long work in Greece, Bulgaria and Russia for the sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev. According the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York 71-year-old Jack Hanick also […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Part of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts Were Written in Greek
Many of Isaac Newton's precious notebooks, in which he worked out his theories about the world, were written entirely in perfect Greek. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Soup, celeriac steaks and yoghurt cake: Yotam Ottolenghi’s citrus recipes
A lemony, Greek-style chicken and pasta soup, celeriac steaks with chilli and blood orange, and a yoghurt loaf cake with orange curd and almonds “We’ve run out of lemons!” exclaimed one of my test kitchen colleagues. We were all aghast. This was a _very _rare occurrence, because lemons, limes and citrus fruits of all varieties manage to find their way into many of my recipes. They really are the sunshine fruits, able to lift dishes into wonderful new dimensions – tart and sour in some instances, fresh and sweet in others. Today’s citrus recipes come to brighten up your plates as much as, I hope, your spirits. So here’s to the squeeze of a lime, the zest of an orange and all the bursts of happiness that these fruits have to offer. UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado Continue reading...
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Costa Carras, ecumenical GREEK
He could have watched the GREEKS' endless turmoil from afar but chose to get into the thick of their struggles. With the ecumenical spirit of his ...
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Kari White
White encourages students who are thinking about GREEK life to just ask. Ask about the organizations offered on the Tarleton State University ...
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Whitecaps reveal 'Fan Food' winner for 2022 season
After two weeks of voting by fans, the new food that will make its debut at concession stands are GREEK Gyro Nachos. Author: 13 ON YOUR SIDE Staff.
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GREEK Cyprus to lose Russian tourists to Turkey, says envoy
GREEK Cyprus will lose Russian tourists to Turkey this summer as it joined other nations in imposing sanctions on Moscow after the military ...
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Tsipras: Sending Weapons To Ukraine Was 'a Major Mistake'
Tsipras expressed concern for the ethnic and expatriate GREEKS in Ukraine, while predicting that the “other side” in the new global order will not ...
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Greece: Commemorative €2 coin remembers bicentenary anniversary of the first GREEK ...
One year earlier GREEKS rose in defiance of Ottoman rule, which had been in place for nearly four centuries, and declared their freedom.
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Nikolaos Tselementes: The “Father” of Greek Cookbooks
Every Greek household has a "tselemente" -- a "cookbook" that took its name after Nikolaos Tselementes, the famous chef. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Apokries: Greek Carnival Season Reaches Peak this Weekend
Carnival celebrations in Greece, or “Apokries,” are some of the most beloved traditions in the country. Celebrated before the period of Great Lent, or “Sarakosti,” begins, Apokries allow revelers to partake in all the food, dance, and celebration they can before the 40-day period of spiritual reflection begins. During Lent, believers are supposed to reflect […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece” According to history there existed two of many important ancient civilizations that left a significant mark in the history of human developm ...
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Greece latest to scrap passenger locator forms
… Mar 2022by James Chapple Greece will scrap its passenger … to ease travel restrictions. Greek tourism minister Vassilis Kikilias … in outdoor spaces in Greece. The Foreign Office acknowledged … arrivals can enter the Greece without restrictions providing they …
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Operation concludes to get Greek nationals out of Ukraine: Foreign Ministry
Government spokesman says Greece ‘consular authorities are in constant contact with the Greek element’ - Anadolu Agency ...
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Ukraine’s Zelensky an Unlikely Leonidas Facing Onslaught
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky rejects the notion that he is similar to King Leonidas of the Spartans, who faced down the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 BC. “I don’t want Ukraine’s history to be a legend about 300 Spartans. I want peace,” he declared, intimating that he didn’t even want […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Medieval City of Rhodes to Undergo Major Restoration
The historic medieval city of Rhodes will be restored in a bid to preserve the historic city and prevent the damage that mass tourism often brings with it. The Greek Culture Ministry has formed a plan to preserve the beautiful city, which is located on the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese, by creating three […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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A total of 515 Ukrainians arrived in Greece in the last 24h
… arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Greece is continuing but their numbers … on Friday, 515 Ukrainians entered Greece in the last 24 hours … Ukrainian citizens have arrived in Greece since the conflict started. In …
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In Search of Troy
It was there, according to the legend, that the GREEKS, ... described by Homer were based on real people or were as mythical as the GREEK gods.
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Giant inflatable colon set up at Mall at Greece Ridge for cancer awareness
The Wilmot Cancer Institute is raising colorectal cancer awareness in a very unique way this Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
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Office of GREEK Life and Community Service seeks feedback on volunteering
The Office of GREEK Life and Community Service asks that students, faculty, and staff assist them with a brief survey on volunteering topics at ...
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