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EU Border and Coast Guard: new corps of 10 000 border and coast guards by 2027

March 29, 2019 by European Union Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. New measures strengthening the European Border and Coast Guard to secure the EU’s borders were agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators, on Thursday. The provisionally agreed changes to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) aim to remedy the current shortcomings and better […]

Germany readies to pay for the Brexit gap in EU finance

February 26, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

As expected, last Friday’s informal European Council of the 27 EU leaders didn’t produce any tangible result regarding its main agenda item; the future of Europe. The EU leaders just quarreled on who is to cover the hole in the budget, after Britain’s contribution ends with Brexit. In relation to this perennial question of money […]

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EU prepares for the worst case scenario as Turkey seems to be withdrawing from the migration deal

December 14, 2016 by Chris Anyfantis Leave a Comment

The EU Foreign Ministers convened in Brussels two days ago with Austria calling for a tougher stance towards the Turkish membership urging the EU to freeze negotiations due to the recent security crackdown in Turkey. The EU leaders will discuss the EU-Turkey refugee deal on Thursday which is directly linked to the Turkish accession talks. Erdogan […]

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EU-Turkey deal on migrants kicked off but to who’s interest?

April 7, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last Monday, 4 April, Greece and Turkey kicked off the implementation of the EU-Turkey agreement. For migrants and refugees alike it foresees deportation from the Greek islands to Turkey, just some dangerous miles eastwards, over rough sea straights at times. Ankara is to receive from Brussels € 3+3 billion for that. During the past twelve […]

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The New Year 2016 will not be benevolent to Europe

January 4, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The year that just ended was rather nasty to the European Union and the New Year 2016 won’t be any better. The economic, financial and political problems culminated to the migration crisis in the second half of 2015, with Greece implicated in more than one of the abovementioned predicaments. The lagged reaction of Brussels to […]

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EU to manage external borders against the will of member states; Greece to be the first target

December 17, 2015 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last Tuesday 15 December the European Commission adopted a groundbreaking proposal for the establishment of a powerful European Border and Coast Guard to ensure strong management of the Schengen area external borders and better administration of immigration flows. According to the Commission, this Guard should be able to intervene with or without the consent of […]

Filed Under: Policy, Politics, Refugee Crisis Tagged With: Aegean islands, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Border and Coast Guard, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, European Union, Eurosceptic, France, Frans Timmermans, Frontex, Germany, Greece, national sovereignty, Paris, Turkey

Unemployment and immigrants haunt the EU; who can offer relief?

December 10, 2015 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

On Tuesday 1st December, Eurostat the EU statistical service reminded us all that in the euro area the October unemployment rate still remained in the double digit region with 10.7%. Understandably, this is the official percentage of people without a job, while the real unemployment rate may be double that, as this newspaper has proved, […]

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The refugee crisis brings to light EU’s most horrible flaws and nightmares

September 16, 2015 by Chris Anyfantis 1 Comment

Last Monday, the EU Interior Ministers convened in Brussels in order to discuss about the quotas of the 120.000 refugees proposed by the European Commission (EC) but didn’t manage again to come to a common decision. Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary belong to the group of countries that are against the latter proposal which […]

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EU should promote immigration as a humanitarian issue in order to provide a more permanent solution

August 7, 2015 by Chris Anyfantis 1 Comment

Only a few days after the Calais migration incident, a new shipwreck just 10 miles off the coast of Libya caused the death of 25 people while there are still 200 people missing out of the 600 who were on board. The European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos in a common […]

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EU seems to fail its moderate migration promises postponing them for end 2015

July 22, 2015 by Chris Anyfantis Leave a Comment

The European Union’s Interior Ministers convened last Monday on migration but didn’t come to the preferred outcome which was set by the EU leaders only one month ago, in June. Many EU member states opposed to the proposed, by the European Council (EC), distribution of the 40.000 asylum seekers coming from Greece and Italy within […]

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Is the EU competent enough to fight human smuggling in 2015?

January 16, 2015 by The Sting's Team Leave a Comment

That the European Union is facing its big problem of exorbitant illegal immigration is not news. How can it be in a gigantic region of 28 countries spreading around the Old Continent? And most of all one of the top five coastline lengths in the world with some 70,000 km coasts bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and […]