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4 March Mar 2016 1538 04 March 2016 Will the EU pass the unity test?
Member States have another chance to save face and stop the political theater. The International Organization for Migration (OIM) Belgian regional director Eugenio Ambrosi shares his expectations.
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4 March Mar 2016 1350 04 March 2016 UNHCR: 6 steps towards solving the refugee situation in Europe
Ahead of a meeting of heads of state or government of the European Union (EU) with Turkey on 7 March in Brussels, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today issued recommendations aimed at helping States solve the refugee situation in Europe.
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4 March Mar 2016 1043 04 March 2016 Nawal Soufi at the European Parliament: "We need human corridors now"
The 28 year old Italian-Moroccan volunteer was invited yesterday morning to Brussels, after having spent 4 consecutive months assisting refugees arriving in boats on the Greek islands. Here is the video of her brief but intense speech.
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26 February Feb 2016 1251 26 February 2016 Avoiding deaths at sea is not a utopia. Sant'Egidio achieves "safe passages"
On Monday the 29th, a group of a hundred refugees will reach Europe by the so-called "safe flights”. An initiative of the Community of Sant'Egidio and some Protestant churches.
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24 February Feb 2016 1016 24 February 2016 It takes a Duo, a migrant and an elderly person, to find a job
The association Duo For a Job connects refugees with professionals over fifty who will support the new comers in their search for work. A relationship that and in the end, say the volunteers, you no longer know who supported whom.
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23 February Feb 2016 0936 23 February 2016 Welcome to Zeebrugge, the new Calais of Belgium
The stories and aspirations of a group of Iranian refugees hoping to reach England. In the meantime, they are stuck in the town of Zeebrugge: a place that risks becoming the new migrant crisis in Europe.
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17 February Feb 2016 0932 17 February 2016 Zombie attack! TTIP corporate super rights come back from the dead
The European Commission’s “new” investor protection proposal brings the same controversial corporate super rights back from the dead according to a new report by Corporate Europe Observatory and 16 other organisations. The study’s release comes just before talks on this controversial issue resume in Brussels for the first time after a two year halt.
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12 February Feb 2016 1140 12 February 2016 Where Europe's borders lie
This week in Brussels the European Union agreed to a new set of demands for Greece to fix its handling of irregular migrants.
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10 February Feb 2016 0912 10 February 2016 UNGA President: Peacebuilding needs to include more women and children
Ahead of the UN High-Level Thematic Debate on Peace and Security scheduled for 10-11 May 2016, the European Peace Liason Office (EPLO) held an international peace-building meeting in Brussels for civil society and the EU.
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5 February Feb 2016 1702 05 February 2016 Austria asks EU to cut development aid in the name of conditionality
The news of Vienna pushing to cut EU development aid in the cases of countries not willing to cooperate on readmission of irregular migrants is further evidence of what European NGO network CONCORD Europe underlines as the “EU Member States continue increasingly to use development aid to promote their geopolitical interests”.