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A day in the life of a refugee: We should be someone who helps

March 2, 2018 by The Sting's Team Leave a Comment

This article was exclusively written for the Sting by Mr Davor Klepo, a 3rd year Croatian medical student from University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek. He serves as secretay of local committee in CroMSIC and Publicatons assistant in IFMSA. Mr Klepo is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Association (IFMSA). The opinion expressed […]

Filed Under: A day in the Life of a Refugee, Health, IFMSA, Policy Tagged With: A day in the Life of a Refugee, Croatia, Davor Klepo, IFMSA, IFMSA European Sting, IFMSA Youth, International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations, Refugee crisis, The European Sting, UNHCR

The European Union’s Balkan Double Standard

August 11, 2016 by The Sting's Team 1 Comment

This article was written for the Sting by one of our passionate readers, Mr Daniel Jankovic. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not The European Sting’s position on the issue. Over the past several years, analysts and commentators have noticed a rising tide of domestic support for the Croatian homegrown Nazi movement […]

Filed Under: iSting Now Tagged With: Corina Cretu, Croatia, Daniel Jankovic, EU Commission, Serbia, Ustasha

Migration has set EU’s political clock ticking; the stagnating economy cannot help it and Turkey doesn’t cooperate

October 29, 2015 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The more action clauses a document of a Western Balkans-EU agreement contains, meant to “improve cooperation and step up consultation between the countries along the migration route”, the less cooperation there will be. That was the case last Sunday 25 October when 11 leaders of Balkan and EU countries met in Brussels. They knew very […]

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Why the 33,000 staff European Commission did not have a real contingency plan for the refugee crisis?

September 25, 2015 by Chris Anyfantis Leave a Comment

Last Wednesday the EU leaders convened in Brussels to discuss the migration crisis in view of the decision made by the Interior Ministers one day ago. The Heads of States finally decided to “work together in a spirit of solidarity and responsibility” supporting the positive vote taken by the majority of Ministers at the Extraordinary […]

Filed Under: EUGlobe, Policy, Politics, Refugee Crisis, Regional Tagged With: Angela Merkel, Croatia, EC, EU, EU Interior Ministers, France, Francois Hollande, Germany, migration crisis, Refugee crisis, relocation of 120.000 refugees, Serbia

Youth and children in Europe set the new perspectives for the decades to come

April 20, 2015 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The share of children of less than 15% in a population is a powerful and polyvalent indicator. For one thing, it accurately predicts the strength or the frailness of the country’s most valuable asset for the next decades, which is its human capital in productive age. The obvious value of the related statistics led Eurostat, […]