Greece fails to provide even basic requirements of safety and shelter to migrants, the report says Greece faces a "humanitarian crisis" over its mistreatment of asylum-seekers and migrants, according to a report by Amnesty International. The group accuses the government of detaining thousands of refugees, including many children, in "shameful [and] appalling" conditions. Greece is a major gateway for migran ...

Evros fence in the Northeast borders to stop migrants mainly coming through Turkey to Greece is completed with cost 3,160000€ . This is leading the migrants to try to come to European territory [Greece] through the sea via Turkey. This had a major implication with the rise of dead people; among them many children, found drawn in the shores of Greek islands and many more not found yet.   Aljazeera repor ...

We are currently witnessing the collapse of the neoliberal project and yet, in the absence of a serious, purposeful democratic movement, it looks very much as if the combined forces of neoliberal capitalism are consolidating their hold on Western society. The last crisis, in the mid-seventies, was resolved only with Thatcher's election in 1979 and Ronald Reagan's a year later, and the launch of the neoliber ...

Montism after Monti and the constituent challenge for movements. by Francesco Raparelli http://www.dinamopress.it/news/italy-from-crisis-to-crisis   The scenario is very uncertain, yet it is worth to try and guess some developments. Uncertain, because the financial markets attack on Italian bonds has not fully unfolded yet. Within hours, we will hear how dramatically our yield spread over Germany has w ...

Asylum seekers crossing from Turkey say they have been illegally deported by Greek police or blocked from entering   UN general secretary Ban Ki-Moon talks to refugees during a visit to the Islahiye Syrian refugee camp in Gaziantep, Turkey. Photograph: Veli Gurgah/Anadolu/EPA On the edge of Europe, where the river Evros meanders towards the Aegean sea, a new tragedy involving two of the world's most tr ...

Netherlands, 7 dec 2012 [flagallery gid=4 name=Gallery] Three month old migrant protest camp Osdorp/Amsterdam evicted – 96 undocumented arrested, 86 released, 1 deported -; followed by big church squatted for continuation protest in western suburb of Amsterdam; protest camp in The Hague threatened with eviction. Photo report of eviction: https://www.indymedia.nl/node/11042 Photo report of Flight church: htt ...

(Reuters) - Egyptian immigrant Waleed Taleb says demanding his unpaid wages in Greece came at a heavy price; 18 hours chained and beaten by his boss, a stint in jail and orders to leave the country he calls home. One of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who toil in Greece's black labor market, Taleb had just finished cleaning the bakery where he worked one November morning on the island of Sa ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants concludes the fourth and last country visit in his regional study on the human rights of migrants at the borders of the European Union: Greece ATHENS (3 December 2012): Following an invitation by the Government, I conducted a visit to Greece from 25 November to 3 December 2012. During my 9-day visit, I visited Athens, the Evros region bordering Turkey, t ...

(Reuters) - Greece has scored the worst ranking of all 27 European Union nations in a global league table of perceived official corruption, falling below ex-communist Bulgaria as public anger about graft soars during the country's crisis. The index on state sector corruption, published by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) on Wednesday, also showed other struggling euro zone countries ...

Amsterdam is to create "Scum villages" where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant police supervision.   "What's next? Shoot whoever we don't agree with? " Holland's capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month cour ...