Europe

EU attempts to resolve refugee quota dispute

The European Union interior ministers are due to hold an emergency meeting, aiming to bridge a deep rift over Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II. The meeting comes on Tuesday, a day after Hungary gave its army and police sweeping new powers to keep refugees out, as the[…]

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The grid of repression

OPINION by Rana Dasgupta – The common mythology of the three great Mediterranean religions begins with a woman who, in the face of political terror, floats her son away on a river in the hope he will be carried to a better life. The plan works: He is rescued and[…]

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Shades of Colonialism = Refugees

OPINION by Ibrahim Vawda – In the Kiswahili language the term “Maafa” means disaster, a terrible incident or a great tragedy. It is also used when referring to the centuries of suffering of people of African Heritage through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, oppression, exploitation and occupation. Similarly, these imperialistic, colonialist designs[…]

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Refugees seeking new routes after border closures

The first refugees have arrived near the Croatian frontier, carving out a new route through Europe after Hungary sealed its borders. The development came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for a special EU refugee summit, urging unity in the European response to the crisis. A group of[…]

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Hungary enforces tougher immigration laws

Under a new immigration law which has come into effect following the failure of European Union ministers to agree on a common strategy, refugees face deportation and jail terms if they enter Hungary illegally. Hungary is on the front-line of Europe’s refugee crisis, with almost 200,000 people travelling up from[…]

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Torn apart: Refugee families lose Europe dream

From country to another, Syrian refugee Josef Majade was able to make his way to Europe with his little family to escape death in his home country. Reaching Hungary, he was not able to continue the journey after he was separated from three members of his family during the dangerous[…]

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Germany: Walking the fine line on refugees

OPINION by Noah Barkin – Returning from her summer break in mid-August, German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised some eyebrows by describing Europe’s refugee problem as a bigger challenge than the Greece crisis, which had overshadowed all else in the first half of 2015. No one in Germany is questioning her[…]

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Migrants undeterred by storms, Hungary clampdown

Thousands of refugees trudged through mud and torrential rain to Greece’s border with Macedonia on Thursday, swelling a human tide across Europe that authorities appear powerless to control. Hungary, a key transit country for migrants trying to reach richer and more welcoming countries such as Germany and Sweden, said it[…]

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