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| Europe seen on cusp of new humanitarian crisis at Greece-Macedonia border |
| 2016-03-02 |
| [REUTERS] The build-up of thousands of ...an idea whose time has gone... said on Tuesday as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... prepared to offer more financial aid. German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... said festivities at Greece's border with Macedonia on Monday - when But Austria - which last month limited the number of Croatia, which is also on what is now the well-trodden But near Idomeni, on the Greek-Macedonian border itself, a tent city mushroomed, prompting some despair among those trapped there. "Macedonian police put us here, the Greeks don't want us back," Yase Qued, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan, told Rooters. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for better planning and accommodation for at least 24,000 it said were stuck in Greece, including 8,500 at Idomeni. "Europe is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis," U.N. refugee agency front man Adrian Edwards told a news briefing. "The crowded conditions are leading to shortages of food, shelter, water and sanitation. As we all saw yesterday, tensions have been building, fuelling violence and playing into the hands of people smugglers," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 No one mentions O's successful foreign policies that ignited this? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-02 08:11 |