EU General Affairs and Foreign Affairs Councils discuss terrorism and gun trafficking

In the wake of the recent terrorists attacks on Paris, discussion will also focus on the EU strategy for combating terrorism, particularly through severing the international funding flows of the terrorist organizations and breaking up illegal gun trafficking networks, as well as through optimal exchange of information between member states.

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Foreign Ministry: ‘Greece’s critics on refugee/migration crisis continue to live in a virtual reality’

Foreign Ministry: Everyone acknowledges that the dimensions of the current refugee/migration issue greatly exceed the management capabilities of any one state – of any size – surpass the European level, and constitute a global crisis.

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Dutch Ministers visit Farmakonisi, Chios and Agathonisi islands

The Minister of National Defence Panos Kammenos, accompanied by the Chief of HAGS Lieutenant General Vasileios Tellidis, the Netherlands’ Minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and the Netherlands’ Minister for Immigration Klaas Dijkhoff, in the context of their official visit to Greece, visited the islands of Farmakonisi, Chios and Agathonisi.

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