According to UNHCR as many as 500 people may have lost their lives, when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an unknown location between Libya and Italy.
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The organization’s report, “Trapped in Greece: an avoidable refugee crisis”, examines the situation of refugees and migrants trapped on mainland Greece, following the complete closure of the FYROM border.
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“We talk a lot about each other, but never with each other.” With that thought in mind Marieke van der Velden and Philip Brink traveled to Lesvos and invited European tourists and Syrian refugees to talk to one another about life. The result was a short documentary entitled, “The Island of All Together”. Philip and Marieke spoke to EmbassyNews.net about the project and the people that made it all happen.
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Tusk: “The objective is clear: an agreement acceptable to all 28 Member States as well as to our Turkish partners. Work is progressing but there is still a lot to do.”
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EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, in his remarks during his visit to Idomeni in Greek-FYROM borders, said: “What we see today in Idomeni should be the last chapter of a tragedy that must not be repeated. We need to stop it…”
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The European Union outline deal with Turkey announced on March 8, 2016, contradicts EU principles guaranteeing the right to seek asylum and against collective expulsions. “A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of the EU-Turkey deal taking shape,” said Human Rights Watch.
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During their meeting in Rome yesterday, Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis and his Italian counterpart, the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister for European Affairs, Sandro Gozi, ascertained that “citizens look upon the European Union with skepticism. This is not the fault of citizens, but of the policies implemented by the Union. And we have to try to change this.”
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Turkey hosts close to 3 million refugees and has made enormous contributions for years and just recently adopted a work regulation for Syrian refugees, but, in light of the enormity of the task, still struggles to provide for all the basic needs of the swelling Syrian population.
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Tusk: “We agreed that despite good implementation of the Joint Action Plan on migration, the flow of migrants passing from Turkey to Greece remains much too high and needs to be brought down significantly.”
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Ahead of a meeting of heads of state or government of the European Union (EU) with Turkey on 7 March in Brussels, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has issued recommendations aimed at helping States solve the refugee situation in Europe.
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