Despite cold, record-breaking numbers of refugees arrive in Greece
As a crowded rubber boat approached the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, aid workers waved and gave the roughly
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Refugee women seeking safety in Europe risk sexual abuse, violence
The U.N. warns that refugee women and children seeking safety in Europe are at great risk of sexual abuse and
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Greek farmers, worker unions, physicians rally against pension reform
The Greek government’s plans for pension reforms, the high taxation of farmers but also of self-employed (physicians, lawyers and others)
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Doctors Without Borders blasts EU migration policies
Humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has denounced Europe’s migration policy of deterrence in 2015 as a “catastrophic
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IOM: 2016 will be another critical year for migration into Europe
The head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) predicts 2016 will be another critical year for migration to Europe.
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Close to 19 000 migrant arrivals in Europe by sea in first 11 days of 2016 – IOM
Migrant arrivals in Europe by sea averaged more than 1700 a day during the first 11 days of 2016, the
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Smugglers change tactics as refugee flow to Greece holds steady
Increased patrols and foul weather have forced smugglers to change tactics, but the refugee flow remains constant in Chios, Greece,
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Greek finance minister in positive meetings with euro zone counterparts
Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos began his tour of European capitals for talks with counterparts with a fruitful meeting with
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Kyriacos Mitsotakis triumphs in New Democracy leadership election race
Kyriacos Mitsotakis was elected new leader of New Democracy, Greece’s main opposition party, on January 10 2016. Mitsotakis’s victory over
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