Greek police use tear gas at protest against refugee screening centre
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The Opaque Process of Collapse
When I write about the demise of unsustainable systems, readers often ask me to describe the collapse I see as inevitable. This is a tough assignment, as there are as many kinds of collapse as there are systems: fragile ones…
Angry farmers block highway in Greece over tax hike
‘Greek farmers have staged a blockade on a main highway leading to the capital, Athens, in protest against proposed tax hikes by the government. Dozens of tractors closed the highway linking Thessaloniki to Athens at the Malgara junction on Monday. Traffic came to a standstill for six hours with farmers threatening to extend the protest […]
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EU warns Greece could be sealed off from Schengen zone over its handling of refugee crisis
‘The European Commission has accused Greece of “seriously neglecting” its obligations under the Schengen Code by failing to maintain proper border controls. It warned that Greece could be sealed off from the rest of Schengen zone as a result. Athens “is seriously neglecting its obligations and there are serious deficiencies in the carrying out of […]
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Austria warns Athens of Schengen zone expulsion over refugee crisis
‘Austria has warned Greece that it could face “temporary exclusion” from the European Union (EU)’s passport-free Schengen zone if it fails to tighten controls on its borders and stop the flood of refugees. “If the Athens government does not finally do more to secure the [EU’s] external borders, then one must openly discuss Greece’s temporary […]
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Greece Falls Prey to ECB Financial Diktats and Blackmail
‘There follows the summary of a talk given at the European Parliament in Brussels by Eric Toussaint on 14 January 2016 on the occasion of the international meeting organized by the left-wing European Parliamentary Group GUE/NGL (European United Left/Nordic Green Left). The theme was “The ECB, Europe’s unelected government”’ Read more: Greece Falls Prey to ECB […]
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Locking up North African Refugees on Samos ‘We’d rather die eaten by fish than eaten by worms’
‘“When the message reaches Morocco that Moroccans are not being allowed to cross into Europe but are being held and repatriated, the flows will drop.” Yiannis Mouzalas [the minister responsible for refugees]said that around half of the people arriving in Greece over the last two months have been undocumented migrants.(Ekathimerini, 8th Jan 2016) On Samos […]
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Greece to recognize state of Palestine
‘Greece is set to recognize the state of Palestine in a parliamentary vote, thus joining dozens of other countries that accord recognition to the Palestinian state. A Greek government source said on Sunday that the vote on Palestine will be held on Tuesday. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will attend the voting session. Abbas is expected […]
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Greeks Watch Passively as Government Drains Them Dry
‘If one had asked any Greek exactly one year ago, that the full of promises SYRIZA party would come to power to finish off the crisis-stricken Greek economy and drain his personal wealth, with his blessing, he would have called them a lunatic. Yet, a year later, the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition has legislated measures and reforms […]
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Syriza Government sends Greek Riot Police to Attack Refugee Camp
‘On the instructions of the Syriza government, Greek riot police forcibly removed 2,300 migrants from the camp they had set up in the village of Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border. The squad of 350 police stormed the camp on December 9. The migrants had been occupying the area around the railway line in the neutral […]
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Germans take over 14 Greek airports in privatization deal
‘Greece has signed its first major privatization deal granting control of over a dozen regional airports to a German company. The agreement is part of international creditors’ demands to privatize state assets to secure €86 billion in bailout funds for Athens. The €1.23 billion contract gives a 40-year lease to the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport. […]
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Greece: National Economic Collapse and the Neoliberal Backlash, Syriza Holds On, The Left Is Weakened
‘The Greek tragedy of national economic collapse appeared to be turning into farce with the re-election of Syriza at the end of September. The leftist party had been first elected only seven months earlier on the promise to end the austerity measures forced on Greece by the troika of the European Union (EU), International Monetary […]
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Greece to send back refugees not granted asylum
‘The Greek government says it will deport economic refugees stuck at the country’s border with Macedonia if they fail to qualify for asylum. “Those without papers, the so-called illegal refugees, have the right to request asylum (or) the right to voluntary repatriation,” Greek Minister for Migration Affairs Yiannis Mouzalas said on Thursday, adding, “If they […]
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Greek security forces clash with protesters in Athens
‘Demonstrators and riot police fought pitched battles in the Greek capital Athens on the seventh anniversary of a teenager’s killing by police. On Sunday, violence erupted at the end of a peaceful march through Athens after police attacked those taking part in the event. The protesters subsequently threw scores of petrol bombs, bricks, and broken […]
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Greek parliament votes through more vicious EU cuts
Greek’s political majority led by ‘revolutionary’ Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed further suffering upon suffering for the Greek people when they narrowly defeated the opposition over new austerity measures. Tsipras then had the nerve to say: ‘This budget is a difficult task for a government that wants to leave its mark with social justice.’ As […]
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