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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Alternate FM Nikos Xydakis meets with Italian Dpt Minister to the PM for European Affairs, Sandro Gozi

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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