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EU launches Mediterranean migrant military mission
EU foreign ministers formally approved Monday the launch of the first phase of a military operation to target people smugglers in the Mediterranean, officials said.
The initial ships and aircraft to conduct intelligence gathering missions should be available within a week, officials said.
EU launches Mediterranean migrant military mission: Official
EU foreign ministers formally approved June 21, the launch of the first phase of a military operation against people smugglers in the Mediterranean, officials said.
Sign the petition to cancel Greek debt
A Greek petition to cancel Greek debt is being organized by the Greek Solidarity Committee that is comprised of activists, academics and trade unionists. The petition is critical of the Greek bail-out program that began in 2010 when Greece’ debt hit 310 billion euros (133% of the GDP).
Pro-Greek demos in Brussels, Amsterdam before crunch summit
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Brussels on Sunday and several hundred in Amsterdam to plead for solidarity with cash-strapped Greece on the eve of a make-or-break summit with European leaders.
Addressing the crowd in Amsterdam, veteran Greek MEP Manolis Glezos urged Athens' creditors to give the country «one more year» to resolve its debt crisis.
Outgoing head of IKA discusses fund's 'prospects' with president
As fears grow about the sustainability of Greece?s crippled pension system, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos met on Saturday with the outgoing head of the country?s main social security fund, IKA, Rovertos Spyropoulos.
The two men discussed IKA?s ?prospects,? the president?s office said.
Coast guard picks up 44 people off Samothrace
Greek coast guard officers on Saturday intercepted 44 illegal migrants on a boat east of the northern Aegean island of Samothrace.
EU migrant plan 'window' for treaty revision
Commissioner says Dublin II, which burdens Greece, could be amended
European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Friday hailed a European plan aimed at distributing immigrants and refugees across EU member-states in a way that spreads the burden while tackling a humanitarian problem.
Lesvos swamped by refugee flood; no relief in sight
MYTILENE - An inflatable dinghy touches the shore in darkness. Dozens of men, women and children jump into the shallow water, stumbling on unseen rocks as they scramble onto a narrow strip of seaweed-strewn beach.
Greece, Lenders 'Close to Deal' - FM Varoufakis
The gap between fiscal targets proposed by Athens and international creditors is quite narrow, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said, after a Eurogroup-IMF meeting on Greece's debt talk ended with no results.
Justice minister defends cohabitation agreements
A day after Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, attacked cohabitation agreements as a ?poor imitation? of marriage, Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos defended the pact as well as plans to extend it to same-sex couples.
Alexis Tsipras Says Greece's Pension Statistics 'Manipulatively Used'
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said in an article published by German daily Tagesspiegel.
The aim he states is to "refute a widespread myth among German taxpayers" - the one saying "it is they who are paying Greeks' salaries and pensions."
Greece faces IMF default on July 1 without a deal: IMF's Lagarde
Greece will be in default with the International Monetary Fund at the start of July if it fails to make a repayment on June 30 because there is no grace period or possibility to delay, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on June 18.
Greece faces IMF default on July 1 without a deal, says Lagarde [Update]
Greece will be in default with the International Monetary Fund at the start of July if it fails to make a repayment on June 30 because there is no grace period or possibility to delay, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Thursday.
"It will be in default, it will be in arrears vis-a-vis the
Serbian PM Condemns Hungarian Border Fence
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told the Serbian public broadcaster RTS on June 17 that he was "surprised and shocked" by the Hungarian decision to fence off the border to stop migrants from entering the country.
In Macedonia, EU-bound migrants cycle to better lives
Fleeing their trouble-torn countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, streams of EU-bound migrants are driving an unexpected trade in a quiet town in Macedonia -- bicycles.
Thousands have arrived in Demir Kapija, a few kilometres (miles) from the Greek border, after journeys by foot, train and boat. But in this picturesque town it is bicycles they seek for the next leg.