Greece to receive €80m from EU to help house refugees

[zenitzz]

Hotel vouchers, apartment rental programmes and subsidies to host families to be supported by European commission

The European commission has pledged to give €80m (£58m) to Greece to help house refugees through schemes including an apartment rental programme, hotel vouchers and subsidies to families who will host refugees.

The scheme, announced in Athens on Monday, aims to provide 20,000 additional reception places to the country on the frontline of Europe’s migration crisis. Asylum seekers and candidates seeking relocation elsewhere in Europe will be eligible.

“Today we stand in solidarity with Greece and with children, women and men seeking refuge in Europe,” said the commission vice-president Kristalina Georgieva. “The scheme we are launching offers EU budgetary support for families, notably providing them with adequate shelter.”

Greece has seen more than 790,000 men, women and children land on its shores since January. Almost all wish to continue their journey north, through the Balkan peninsula to central Europe. But the decision of several countries along that corridor to close their borders to anyone deemed not to be from a conflict zone has left thousands stranded.

Violence has punctuated chaotic scenes along Greece’s border with its northern neighbour Macedonia.

Labouring under its worst economic crisis in modern times, Athens has scrambled to host the arrivals in sporting venues erected for the 2004 Olympic Games, in camps on Greek islands and in tents in public squares.

Tensions have risen noticeably as Moroccans and other economic migrants, temporarily sheltered in an estwhile Olympic taekwondo venue, have protested against conditions and demanded to be allowed to continue their journey onwards into Europe. In a nation racked by plummeting living standards and recession, the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and other officials are increasingly voicing fears that Greece will become a “repository of trapped souls” desperately trying to move west.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/14/greece-eu-refugees-migration-crisis

[bitfranky]

Muslim migrants always cost a fortune and provide little in exchange, usually shy of proper work (please, don't name as work sitting in shabby corner shop!) All they do later is never integrate and try to recreate the very Muslim lunacy they had to leave as migrants in their former countries.

[zenitzz]

Refugee crisis: EU summit exposes impotence and unfulfilled pledges

European solidarity weakens further as divisions grow between countries over border control and refugee quotas


European leaders are struggling to agree on action to manage the refugee crisis amid ever deepening divisions, impotence and failure to follow through on earlier pledges.

While David Cameron’s campaign to refashion the terms of Britain’s EU membership was set to occupy much of a critical summit, for many of the other leaders the migration crisis loomed larger, given that an estimated 1.2 million people have entered the European Union this year, mainly from the Middle East.

Leaders were to discuss incendiary proposals tabled by the European commission this week to create an EU border and coastguard, empowered to overrule national governments when the EU’s external frontiers are deemed to be inadequately secured.

The proposal won strong support on Thursday from the German and French leaders, but in many parts of the EU it was viewed as an assault on national sovereignty.

The summit, the fifth such meeting in a row to focus on the migration emergency, revisited many of the measures that heads of government and interior ministers had decided on since last spring, but had not put into effect.

“The measures have been taken, but not applied,” said the French president, François Hollande, for whom tough security policies are particularly important after the terrorist attacks in Paris last month.

Britain is only marginally involved in the policy debate because it is not part of the 26-country free-travel Schengen zone, takes no part in EU common asylum policies and needs not take part in EU interior policy coordination.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/refugee-crisis-eu-summit-exposes-impotence-and-unfulfilled-pledges

[xht]

Why are they housing any refugees at all when they are already broke. Also, they haven't colonialised the world or bombed the middle east so any problems there are aren't their problem.

[bitsmichel]

Why are they housing any refugees at all when they are already broke. Also, they haven't colonialised the world or bombed the middle east so any problems there are aren't their problem.

It's easy for these guys to walk into Europe, unlike the US they don't have any border control.

[vero]

So, let's say that the meagre amount of money that corresponds to each person is enough to get them under a roof. What happens with finding them a job, educating their children, providing health care and all these other little things that would keep a small country already in debt from turning into a country-size Molotov cocktail?

[n691309]

Muslim migrants always cost a fortune and provide little in exchange, usually shy of proper work (please, don't name as work sitting in shabby corner shop!) All they do later is never integrate and try to recreate the very Muslim lunacy they had to leave as migrants in their former countries.

Why are you so racist, refugee is a refugee, how do you think will you treated in muslim countries if you were a refugee? This what is doing EU and this help to Greece is a good and human thing and every other country should do the same.

[bitsmichel]

Muslim migrants always cost a fortune and provide little in exchange, usually shy of proper work (please, don't name as work sitting in shabby corner shop!) All they do later is never integrate and try to recreate the very Muslim lunacy they had to leave as migrants in their former countries.

Why are you so racist, refugee is a refugee, how do you think will you treated in muslim countries if you were a refugee? This what is doing EU and this help to Greece is a good and human thing and every other country should do the same.

It's not racist if you speak about Muslims. The second question is easy, any non muslim in a muslim country is a 2nd rank citizen:

[Laguna77]

Muslim migrants always cost a fortune and provide little in exchange, usually shy of proper work (please, don't name as work sitting in shabby corner shop!) All they do later is never integrate and try to recreate the very Muslim lunacy they had to leave as migrants in their former countries.

Why are you so racist, refugee is a refugee, how do you think will you treated in muslim countries if you were a refugee? This what is doing EU and this help to Greece is a good and human thing and every other country should do the same.

It's not racist if you speak about Muslims. The second question is easy, any non muslim in a muslim country is a 2nd rank citizen:
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.camera.org%2Fimages_user%2Fmuslims_only_sign-mecca_large.jpg&f=1

Please lets ignore all the muslims in europe and us because thats what they do with europeans or us citizens in their countrys. Its time people, think about it

[Daniel91]

Muslim migrants always cost a fortune and provide little in exchange, usually shy of proper work (please, don't name as work sitting in shabby corner shop!) All they do later is never integrate and try to recreate the very Muslim lunacy they had to leave as migrants in their former countries.

Why are you so racist, refugee is a refugee, how do you think will you treated in muslim countries if you were a refugee? This what is doing EU and this help to Greece is a good and human thing and every other country should do the same.

I agree with you.
EU maybe was to slow in their response, maybe they did some strategic mistakes in Syria before, but they really acted in the best possible and human way and helped a lot refugees to survive and EU gave them second chance in their lives.
You generalize Muslim a lot, I know a lot hard working Muslim and also some Christian people which don't like to work.

[Laguna77]

How could they know i am not a muslim. there are white people that are muslim. So how are they going to control it? And what will happen to me if they realize i am non muslim? How do they check it anyway?

[bryant.coleman]

Is this some sort of a joke? The European Union just gave € 3,000 million to Turkey, for the same purpose. And the Turks are sending these funds directly to the ISIS and the Al Nusra Front, rather than doing anything for the refugees. Greece is facing a huge migrant crisis (Greek population is much smaller than Turkey, and they are dealing with a lot more migrants), and they are being given only around 2% of what was given to the goatfuckers?

[xht]

Greece is facing a huge migrant crisis (Greek population is much smaller than Turkey, and they are dealing with a lot more migrants), and they are being given only around 2% of what was given to the goatfuckers?

They should relocate ALL these Syrian refugees on the Greek Islands that are currently not used or underutilized. Greeks aren't doing anything with them, and they can't afford to keep them up. Let the Syrians have it. They will do better. Besides European Unions already paid Greece PLENTY of money Plenty of times in advance. They may as well get their money's worth.

[bryant.coleman]

They should relocate ALL these Syrian refugees on the Greek Islands that are currently not used or underutilized. Greeks aren't doing anything with them, and they can't afford to keep them up. Let the Syrians have it. They will do better. Besides European Unions already paid Greece PLENTY of money Plenty of times in advance. They may as well get their money's worth.

Boy, you better mind your own business. Greek islands belong to the Greeks. They don't want any of the unwashed hordes from Pakistan and Somalia on their islands. If you are that concerned about these "refugees", then ask Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates) to house all of them in the Palm Islands.

[vero]

The European Union just gave € 3,000 million to Turkey, for the same purpose. And the Turks are sending these funds directly to the ISIS 

Tell Turkey to use all the money they are saving from buying ISIS oil (they lied about) and use THAT savings to pay their bills. All of Europe, build fences all around. Much cheaper!!

[bizerinm]

Greece is in hard position, because of Turkey..Greek islands are in horrible situation, Lezbos, Samos,Kos,Rhodes..immigrants are everywhere...but Greek people don't like them..Don't know what Tzipras will do, now they transport them with ferry to Athens and than on train to Gevgelia..

[jak1]

Greek citizens won't be happy, and their tourism will suffer if that happens. Now strike in Athens against Tzipras so probably if they need to give home to refugees it will be almost war there

[bryant.coleman]

Greek citizens won't be happy, and their tourism will suffer if that happens. Now strike in Athens against Tzipras so probably if they need to give home to refugees it will be almost war there

Tsipras is completely helpless, as Greece is no longer a sovereign nation. The Greek government takes orders from the European Union establishment, which is a puppet of the United States and its vassal Germany. If Tsipras had the power, the he might have sent back all these migrants to Turkey, without a second thought.

[vero]

Greek citizens won't be happy, and their tourism will suffer if that happens. Now strike in Athens against Tzipras so probably if they need to give home to refugees it will be almost war there

it won't affect it as much as a vat rise on tourist to greece will greece as a tourist will be a thing of the past

[designerusa]

Hotel vouchers, apartment rental programmes and subsidies to host families to be supported by European commission

The European commission has pledged to give €80m (£58m) to Greece to help house refugees through schemes including an apartment rental programme, hotel vouchers and subsidies to families who will host refugees.

The scheme, announced in Athens on Monday, aims to provide 20,000 additional reception places to the country on the frontline of Europe’s migration crisis. Asylum seekers and candidates seeking relocation elsewhere in Europe will be eligible.

“Today we stand in solidarity with Greece and with children, women and men seeking refuge in Europe,” said the commission vice-president Kristalina Georgieva. “The scheme we are launching offers EU budgetary support for families, notably providing them with adequate shelter.”

Greece has seen more than 790,000 men, women and children land on its shores since January. Almost all wish to continue their journey north, through the Balkan peninsula to central Europe. But the decision of several countries along that corridor to close their borders to anyone deemed not to be from a conflict zone has left thousands stranded.

Violence has punctuated chaotic scenes along Greece’s border with its northern neighbour Macedonia.

Labouring under its worst economic crisis in modern times, Athens has scrambled to host the arrivals in sporting venues erected for the 2004 Olympic Games, in camps on Greek islands and in tents in public squares.

Tensions have risen noticeably as Moroccans and other economic migrants, temporarily sheltered in an estwhile Olympic taekwondo venue, have protested against conditions and demanded to be allowed to continue their journey onwards into Europe. In a nation racked by plummeting living standards and recession, the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and other officials are increasingly voicing fears that Greece will become a “repository of trapped souls” desperately trying to move west.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/14/greece-eu-refugees-migration-crisis

i dont understand that all the europe wants to let asylum seeker enter its countiries freely.. when greece had some financial troubles at a time, eu didnt want to show any sign of helping to it.. so why is eu volunteer to help immigrants now ? this is so ridiculous..