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German Chancellor Angela Merkel Blasts EU Member States That Turn Their Back on Asylum Seekers

Expressing her frustration with EU member states that refuse to share the burden of accepting refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said history will judge Europe harshly if it fails to follow international law regarding asylum seekers. Chancellor Merkel’s blunt criticism...

Annual Review of Europe’s Employment and Social Developments Reveal Huge Disparities Between Member States

The European Commission released today (January 21, 2016) its 2015 Employment and Social Developments review, which bears the subtitle "Investing in people is key to economic growth.” The Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review “is an annual review...

Report from Lesvos: without safe access to asylum, people will keep risking their lives in the Aegean

By Heaven Crawley I stood in the corner of a dusty cemetery on the Greek island of Lesvos and watched a mother bury her child. As the tiny body of a baby boy wrapped in a white sheet was lifted...

Greece One of EU's Most Policed Countries

Recent INTERPOL statistics detailing the number of policemen per national capita has revealed that Greece is among the most policed countries in the EU, falling just behind Cyprus and Spain. The map's creator, Ramiro Gómez, used data from Wikipedia's list of police...

Wages in Greece Fell for the Second Quarter of 2014

Wages in Greece continued falling in the second quarter of the year, recent reports show. Greece has now become one of just three EU member-states to record a decline in wages in both the first and second quarters of 2014. In Greece, the...

Greek EU Presidency Promotes GM Crops in Europe

An indicative vote of EU member state representatives taken in a closed meeting in Brussels last Wednesday indicated a near unanimous support for the proposal of widely allowing genetically modified crops to be grown across the European Union. A formal...

Fewer School Dropouts in Greece

According to statistical data released on April 11 by Eurostat, an improvement has been recorded in Greece about early leavers from education and training. Specifically, in 2012 the percentage of early school leavers in the country declined to 11.4%...