«Banish Fear. Give Shelter» campaign by SolidarityNow
The campaign encourages people living in Greece to host refugees through the “Home for Hope” project.
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Key demographic indicators in Greece
The natural population change (i.e., the change attributed only to the difference between the number of live births and deaths, without taking into account migration), in 2015, recorded a downward trend, as a natural population decrease of 29,365 persons was observed.
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Polish humanitarian aid for refugees in Greece
1,000 sets of individual preventive medical kits were delivered to Greece last week by the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland as the humanitarian assistance in the refugee crisis.
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UNHCR calls for a speedy relocation procedure
So far, 4,776 asylum-seekers have been relocated from Greece and Italy, only 3% of the original target. UNHCR is calling on States to increase pledges, including for unaccompanied and separated children.
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Earthquake in central Italy: EU stands ready to help
The European Union stands in full solidarity with the Italian people and national authorities, President Juncker and Commissioner Stylianides said.
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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
“The EU is stepping up its efforts to protect Human Rights Defenders working on behalf of the most vulnerable and marginalized, including indigenous peoples”, said High Representative F. Mogherini.
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Asylum: End of large scale pre-registration on mainland Greece
The Asylum Service announces that the operation to pre-register applications for international protection on mainland Greece, through the dedicated registration centres that were temporarily set up, has now come to an end.
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Hundreds suffer at Hungary-Serbia border
“Any European Union country where we can be safe will do,” says 54-year-old Sayed Afsar Sadat, whose left hand was damaged in an airstrike when he was a child. “I was a bank manager in Afghanistan, I had a house and a car. Now I’m nothing,” he says. He and his family have been at the border for 15 days and, if the list does not fail them, they have another 18 days to wait.
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Foreign Ministry announcement on the attack on a Munich shopping mall
The toll of yesterday’s attack at the Olympia shopping mall includes a Greek citizen.
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Almost half of upper secondary pupils in the EU enrolled in vocational education
Of the 22 million pupils in the European Union (EU) studying at upper secondary level in 2014, almost 11 million (or 48%) were enrolled in vocational education. In twelve EU Member States, more than half of all upper secondary pupils studied vocational programmes.
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