President François Hollande of France on Thursday joined a backlash against a decision by eurozone bailout monitors to freeze short-term debt relief measures for Greece, saying the country should be “treated with dignity”. His intervention signals a ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
The Latest: Greece stops speedboat taking migrants to Italy
[A migrant walks past tents in a makeshift camp in Saint Denis, outside Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. Thousands of migrants from the Mideast and Africa, who had converged on Calais after fleeing conflict and poverty, have now been dispersed across France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)]BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on Europe's response to the large numbers of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have made their way to the continent (all times local):
Only five unaccompanied migrant children brought to UK from Greece and Italy: aid agencies
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only five child migrants who reached Italy and Greece without their parents were transferred to Britain in 2016, aid agencies said on Thursday, warning that many others risked falling prey to traffickers and smugglers.
Europarliament President Schulz backs Greek proposals on surplus
The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz offered his support to the Greek government concerning the recent announcements by PM Tsipras to provide part of the surplus to alleviate low income social groups in Greece, and expressed his ...
GREECE urges dignified breakthrough in debt row with Eurogroup
Tsipras's remarks came after eurozone ministers decided to suspend a series of debt relief measures granted to GREECE in response to an ...
Hollande says GREECE must be treated with dignity
GREECE must be treated "with dignity" in the row over the eurozones suspension of debt relief, French President Francois Hollande warned on ...
UPDATE 2-France backs Greece in debt relief row with lenders
BRUSSELS Dec 15 The French government voiced support for Athens on Thursday in its row with European lenders over debt relief, opening up a new fault line in the standoff over Greece's third bailout. The lenders announced on Wednesday that they were ...
