Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met yesterday [Nov-5], on the margins of the 12th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, in Luxembourg, with the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Wang Chao…
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EP President Martin Schulz travelled yesterday [Nov-5] to the Greek island of Lesvos in order to visit a refugee registration and identification centre where almost 2,500 people are recorded on a daily basis. Speaking at the so-called hotspot at Moria, he said: “We must urgently reinforce efforts to complete hotspots. To be effective, however, all member states must take part in the relocation.”
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EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in his remarks in Athens marking the first flight from Greece under the EU Relocation Scheme said: Firstly let me tell you that, as Commissioner for Migration in the European Commission, I feel today both moved and pleased…
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“The Aegean Sea does not only wash ashore bodies of children, but it washes ashore the EU culture,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in Parliament on Friday. “I feel ashamed by Europe’s inability to deal effectively with this drama,” added the prime minister, noting that he also feels ashamed by the discussion made at summit level…
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In an interview yesterday [Oct 31] with newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, ECB president Mario Draghi referred to key economic developments in Europe and internationally, whilst he did argued on Greece’s national debt. Key parts of the interview, based on a translation published on ECB website have as follows:
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“A very significant number” of Eritreans are fleeing a country “that is not in a situation of conflict or unrest” to seek a life free from fear, the head of a UN-appointed commission of inquiry on human rights in the east African nation told the UN General Assembly last week [Oct-29].
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Following a meeting at the foreign ministry, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó discussed…
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During their meeting in Athens yesterday [Oct-29], the Foreign Ministers of Greece and Germany, Nikos Kotzias and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, looked at, among other things, the whole range of Greek-German bilateral relations.
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Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will meet with Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at 14:00 on
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The real divide revealed by today’s migration challenges to the EU is between “pros”, who want to use the EU to solve these challenges, and “antis”, who want to use them to dissolve the EU.
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