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Greece
Greece, Croatia Reject Separations Between Economic Migrants and Refugees
Deputy Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas and Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic agreed that there shouldn't be separations between refugees and economic migrants.
The two officials met in Athens on Thursday to discuss the refugee issue. They agreed that the...
Greece
Greek Prime Minister Discusses Israeli-Palestianian Conflict With Mahmoud Abbas
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Palestine on Wednesday and reiterated his desire for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
In a joint press conference following their meeting in Palestine, Tsipras expressed his support for...
Greece
Greek Alternate Foreign Minister: Latest Terrorist Attacks a Test for Europe
Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis expressed his deep concern over the consequences of the economic and refugee crisis as well as the terror threat to EU cohesion.
Xydakis was speaking on Wednesday to the Standing Special European Issues Parliamentary Committee...
Australia
Former Greek Finance Minister Speaks on Refugee Crisis and ISIL
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis addressed the ongoing refugee crisis in the aftermath of ISIL's attacks in Paris, November 13, that killed 129 people.
Over 850,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe this calendar year, with 703,000 entering through...
Economy
Varoufakis: 'Greece had a Chance to Default and we Missed it'
Greece had a chance to default and be kicked out of the European common currency bloc "but we missed it," said former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Speaking to the Guardian, Varoufakis said that the reason Europe is not able to...
Greece
Greek Government Refutes French Claims That Abdelhamid Abaaoud Passed Through Greece
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is thought to be the organizer of the attacks on Paris that claimed 129 lives, was killed during a police operation in Paris on Wednesday. Questions have arisen over how Abaaoud, who was born and raised...
Greece
Avramopoulos Calls for Creation of a European Intelligence Service
European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos proposed on Friday the establishment of a European Intelligence Service, upon his arrival to the extraordinary EU Interior Ministers meeting in Brussels.
As he stated, after the European Counter Terrorism Center in Europol, formed...
Europe
EU’s Ministers Agree on Changes in Schengen Agreement
An unofficial summit among the interior and justice ministers of European Union's 28 member states decided on Friday to increase the protection of the union's external borders amid intensifying security threats since the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13.
The ministers...
Greece
Refugee Plight on Lesvos 'Not a Greek Problem,' EU Commissioner Andriukaitis Says
"The things I saw in Skala Sykamnias are not a Greek problem. They are my personal problem as a European citizen, as a human being, as a politician of our common homeland of Europe," European Commissioner for Health and...
Greece
German and Austrian Chancellors Call for Acceleration of Hotspots in Greece
Amid instability and high security alerts throughout the European continent, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann called for the European Union to buttress the protection of its own borders, during a joint press conference on Thursday in Berlin.
Since...