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Switzerland refuses to take more asylum seekers from Italy, Greece

2nd July 2018 Newsroom 0

eKathimerini — Switzerland has rejected a refugee relocation program proposed by the European Union to relieve the burden on frontier countries like Italy and Greece, […]

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Germany strikes ‘Merkel-Saving’ migration deal with Spain, Greece

1st July 2018 Newsroom 0

Politico — Spain, Greece and Germany struck a trilateral migration deal of “reciprocal cooperation” in addition to a wider EU migration deal reached at an EU summit […]

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Italy secures migration package from EU

29th June 2018 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg — Italy’s rookie prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, negotiated a package of measures at his first European Union summit to stem the flow of migrants […]

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Britain to provide Greece with more support for refugees, discussed potential for future trade partnership

27th June 2018 Newsroom 0

Downing Street Press Release — Prime Minister May welcomed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece to Downing Street for the first time. Mrs May noted that […]

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Merkel backs down on migration proposals under pressure from Italy

21st June 2018 Newsroom 0

Reuters – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday a draft EU accord on migration had been withdrawn after he clashed with Chancellor Angela […]

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Merkel’s Interior minister plans to make Italy, Greece to accept Germany’s refugees

19th June 2018 Newsroom 0

Sputnik – German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer’s general plan on Germany’s migration policy will place a greater and “unacceptable” burden of accepting refugees on recipient […]

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Belgium can now send asylum seekers back to Greece

12th June 2018 Newsroom 0

The Brussels Times — Belgium may again send asylum seekers back to Greece, something it had been unable to do for seven years, De Standaard […]

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Turkey suspends migrant readmission agreement with Greece

7th June 2018 Newsroom 0

Reuters — Turkey has suspended its migrant readmission deal with Greece, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu agency, days after […]

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Greece passes asylum law to ease overcrowding in island camps

16th May 2018 Newsroom 0

The Greek government passed a bill Tuesday aimed at making asylum procedures simpler and faster and to ease overcrowding on its island refugee camps. Five […]

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Asylum-seekers fish for food, fun and friendship in Crete

29th March 2018 Newsroom 0

UNHCR — The sky is overcast and the sea is choppy, but  the two asylum-seekers, Ismain and Walid, have time on their hands in the Cretan […]

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At least 16 dead as migrant boat sinks off Greek island

18th March 2018 Newsroom 0

Reuters – Sixteen people, including at least five children, drowned on Saturday when the small boat they on capsized in the Aegean Sea, Greek coast […]

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EU to give Turkey more funding to extend migrant deal, while Syria offensive exacerbates crisis

17th March 2018 Newsroom 0

eKathimerini — Notwithstanding a rise in tensions between Brussels and Ankara – recently exacerbated by Turkey’s increasingly aggressive stance toward Greece and Cyprus – the […]

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Turkey links EU accession talks progress to migration control deal

20th January 2018 Newsroom 0

The Independent — Turkey’s government has said it would reject any deal for a closer partnership with the European Union that did not involve becoming […]

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More than 170 migrants reach Lesvos, Samos early New Year’s Day

2nd January 2018 Newsroom 0

eKathimerini — More than 170 migrants reached the shores of Lesvos and Samos in the early hours of New Year’s Day in two boats, according […]

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Moria refugee camp an embarrassment for Europe

23rd December 2017 Newsroom 0

The Guardian — High in the hills of the island of Lesbos, in a former military camp now filled with containers and tents, the onset […]

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  • Ten year old mystery of the suspicious death of Jean Hanlon in Crete

    Following a UK Channel 5 documentary entitled ‘Murdered in Paradise : The Killing of Jean Hanlon’, new information has emerged which was  enough to lead […]

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  • PFPO’s stray animals meetings with German MEPs and the Authorities in Crete

    PFPO PRESS RELEASE – (repost) Last month MEPs Professor Klaus Buchner, animal activist Stefan Eck and Georgios Chatzimarkakis, who is from Crete, organized a congress […]

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  • Book club in Apokoronas

    NEW BOOK CLUB Kindle/ebook recommended Meets Monthly Read an entertaining, interesting book every month. Members take turns to propose a choice of books. Meet, discuss […]

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  • A new novel on wartime Crete by Phillip Duke, a former apokoronas resident

    A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life […]

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  • A driver’s licence saga

    AN received a letter from a reader about problems with the renewal of a drivers licence. Name and email supplied. ‘Last autumn, the government introduced […]

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