Schengen
Greece
Greek PM Receives Special UN Migration Envoy Peter Sutherland
The course of the implementation of EU-Turkey agreement and the European Migration and Asylum policy dominated Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' meeting with UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for International Migration Peter Sutherland on Thursday at Maximos Mansion,...
Greece
EU Extends Schengen Border Controls for Another Six Months
EU member states of the European Council backed last week's recommendation from the European Commission to extend border controls in the passport-free Schengen zone that were reintroduced in some places as a response to the refugee crisis.
Member states that...
Greece
Paris Airport Treats Greeks as Non Schengen Zone Members
The correspondent of Greece's public broadcaster ERT in France, Thomais Papaioannou, said she was treated as a non Schengen Zone citizen when she arrived at Paris airport.
The incident the reporter posted in social media has sparked a public debate regarding...
Greece
EU Gives Greece Two Weeks to Form Border Control Plan
The European Commission on Tuesday gave Greece two weeks to present a concrete plan to improve protection of Europe's external borders in order to stop massive refugee inflows.
The European Commission finds that Greece has failed to file an adequate...
Crime
EU Ministers Ask for Fast Completion of Legislation to Tackle Terrorism
European Union's justice and interior ministers who met in Brussels on Thursday following the terrorist attacks in the city said they want to speed up the completion of legislation that will tackle terrorism.
“We stand determined in our common fight...
Greece
Brussels Attacks Threaten European Integration and Cosmopolitan Democracy
They say timing is everything. And an organization such as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which has supplanted al Qaeda as the jihadist threat of greatest concern, was surely aware of the meaning “timing is everything”...
Economy
America's Hottest Economist Says 'Sooner or Later Greece Will Leave EU/IMF Arrangement Because It Simply Isn’t Workable'
One of the ongoing debates both among economists and policymakers is over the failure of the Greek bailout programs. Why is Greece still in a deep recession six years after it got shut out of global private credit markets...
Greece
Germany’s and France’s Leaders Reaffirm Their Commitment to Schengen Treaty
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met in Paris today, just three days ahead of a planned EU-Turkey summit on migration.
Speaking to a joint press conference following today’s meeting, the two leaders said they had agreed...
Greece
PM Tsipras Receives PES Leader Pitella; Later Tweets on Refugee Crisis
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday met with the president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament, Gianni Pitella, with talks focusing on the refugee crisis. Pitella has welcomed Greece's efforts on...
Greece
Greek Communist Party Leader Koutsoumbas Sees No End to Refugee Crisis
In a radio interview for Real.gr., Greek Communist party leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas said the causes behind Europe’s refuge crisis are to be found in the global capitalist crisis and the imperialist interventions and wars that are inextricably connected with...