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EU will reach deal with Turkey, says EU's Schulz
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has said the EU would reach an agreement with Turkey, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu is in Brussels to attend a EU-Turkey summit to find a solution to the migrant crisis that has hit the bloc.
Large rise in German bookings for Greek islands
According to data released by TravelTainment, the Greek islands experienced a large increase in bookings from the German market, while bookings for the Turkish Riviera have dropped substantially.
3,000 refugees arrive in Italy in 3 days (videos)
Over 3,000 refugees arrived in Italy from Tuesday till Friday, according to the country’s authorities. Italian officials say the majority of the refugees are from sub-Saharan Africa and crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya. The good weather conditions and the blocking of the Balkan route were the main reasons of a spite in numbers over the past 3 days via Libya-to Italy.
EU Leaders to Present Their Common Position on Migrant Deal to Turkey
The heads of state or government of the member states of the EU agreed on a joint position which will be presented to Turkey in attempt to reach a deal on stemming the migrant influx into Europe.
The EU leaders agreed the common position at the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, which began on Thursday and is continuing on Friday.
ND leader Mitsotakis blasts Hungarian PM Orban on his closed borders rhetoric
Leader of major Greek opposition party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis blasted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over his stance on closed borders in the EU during the European Parliament ALDE alliance group’s meeting in Brussels.
Refugees lynch pedophile at Idomeni camp (photos+video)
Violent clashes broke out at the Idomeni refugee camp in northern Greece and the port of Piraeus, as tensions are running high with the numbers of refugees and illegal immigrants arriving swarming.
EU Summit on refugee: Europe will not leave Greece alone
While the European Union meeting on refugee is still in progress, EU sources say that European Council President Donald Tusk presented a new plan based on which the talks will continue today.
The plan provides European Union to support Greece at technical level, so as to legitimize and make sustainable the mechanism for the readmission of refugees and immigrants to Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Ministry lashes out at Tsipras and Pavlopoulos
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs lashed out at President of Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday night in response to the statements of the Greek state and political leadership on the Armenian Genocide during the visit of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Athens.
Travel expectations vs Reality (pics)
Travelers very often get disappointed when their destination does not live up their expectation, either because they imagined it differently or because it looked differently on the Internet.
Expectation is a dangerous thing and the higher the expectations, the greater the chance they will be dashed.
FYROM soldiers threaten Greek photographers in Greece’s territory
FYROM’s policemen and soldiers threatened Greek photographers in Idomeni who were trying to take photos of the points of the fence where FYROM authorities pushed the immigrants, who entered the country, back to Greece.
NGOs demand halt to airport project in Ka?
Local NGOs have submitted a seven-page report to local state bodies opposing the construction of an airport in the resort of Ka? in the southern province of Antalya, as they fear the airport would have irreversible consequences for the town, which attracts tourists with its pristine environment.
Italy rescues 2,400 boat migrants, finds three corpses
More than 2,400 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily in the last two days and emergency services recovered three corpses, Italy's coast guard said on March 16.
EU-Turkey meeting: Ankara is not holding us hostage, say Europeans
The EU summit on the refugee crisis begins in a reluctant atmosphere, with President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė saying that the agreement to be reached with Turkey would be “complex and at the limits of international law”.
Arriving at the meeting, Mrs. Grybauskaitė told reporters that “we will agree on something. We will negotiate with the same conditions agreed last week”.
Bulgaria, Macedonia to Hold Joint Border Policing Operations amid Migration Crisis
Balkan neighbours Bulgaria and Macedonia have agreed to conduct joint air and land operations for border control and protection in the context of the migration crisis in the coming days, the government in Sofia announced on Thursday.
The agreement was reached in a telephone conversation between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov.
PM Tsipras meets with Merkel – Hollande before EU summit
The two-day EU Summit begins today without European having agreed during preliminary discussions on a definitive approach with Turkey on refugee issue.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who hopes getting the support of socialists, met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.