BERNE (Reuters) – There is a good chance Greece’s third bailout package can be implemented regardless of the result of the Sept. 20 snap Greek election, German ...
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Father of drowned Syrian toddlers prepares to take bodies home
Abdullah Kurdi collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue in the city of Mugla near Bodrum, where the body of his three-year old son Aylan washed up on Wednesday. "The things that happened to us here, in the country where we took refuge to escape war in our homeland, we want the whole world to see this," Abdullah told reporters. In a statement to police obtained by the Hurriyet newspaper, Abdullah said he had twice paid smugglers to take him and his family to Greece but their efforts had failed.
EU draws up emergency plan to relocate 160,000 stranded refugees
Under the new scheme, migrants stranded in Italy, Greece and Hungary will be transferred to countries across the EU based on their population and economic wealth (pictured).
EU migrant crisis: GREECE to ask EU for €700m to tackle refugee influx
Athens is to ask the EU for €700m (£510m, $777m) to help tackle an influx of migrants and refugees which has led to thousands arriving in GREECE, ...
Merkel says can't be that a few countries shoulder refugee burden
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Switzerland on Thursday that the burden of taking on hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere must be shared out more fairly in Europe. "The German government says the Dublin approach is not working anymore, because so many refugees are arriving at our external borders, that we can't leave Italy or Greece alone to deal with this task," she said at a news conference in Berne. "At the same time, if we say that Italy and Greece can't be left alone with this task, then neither can it be that three countries, like Sweden, Austria and Germany, are left alone with the lion's share of the task." Merkel said Europe must solve the refugee crisis with "fairness and solidarity" and that Germany stood ready, in light of its economic strength, to assume its responsibilities.
The Latest: Greece: No end in sight to the flood of migrants
The latest Thursday on the European migrant crisis (all times GMT):