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Spain needs broad consensus to go forward after messy election result
Spaniards wanted change, and at Sunday’s elections they got it. The two discredited parties that have run the country for three decades sank to historic…
Susan Sarandon welcomes refugees to Lesbos – She will spend her Christmas holiday on the Greek island listening to the migrants’ stories
Susan Sarandon is on the Greek island of Lesbos to greet refugees and migrants as they arrive from the nearby coast of Turkey. The American…
Solidarity made in Denmark – Danish government wants to seize jewelry, valuables and cash from refugees
It’s not a hoax: the Danish government really is legislating to search refugees and confiscate jewellery and other valuables. Officials say the law is intended…
How ensconced are the “ensconced” abroad?
And while the impression we had on immigration was a subtle black and white image of old Greek movies, songs of Stelios Kazantzidis and narrations…
Matteo Renzi picks fight with Angela Merkel at the EU summit
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has built a reputation as a mischief-maker on the European scene, but at a Brussels summit Friday he took it…
How many billion euros did Germany, Holland and Belgium make out of the debt crisis in europe?
Every time a new loan for Greece and other countries of the European South is discussed, countries like Germany and Holland always “worry” about not…
Homeland’s Mandy Patinkin Helps Refugees Land On Lesbos
Emotional video from the Greek island of Lesbos shows ‘Homeland’ star Mandy Patinkin struggling to help refugees come ashore. Hundreds of discarded lifejackets line the…
How Europe’s poorest country is doing more than anyone else to help Syrian refugees
Greeks Bearing Gifts “Of all the countries in Europe, Greece is the one that can least afford to be anyone’s savior. It is the continent’s…
Not all refugees come to fortress Europe – according to Amnesty International
Contrary to the popular belief, not all refugees come to fortress Europe…
Dutch households poorer than German, Belgian, French & British households
Are the Dutch poorer than their neighbors, the Germans and the Belgians, and also the French and the British? These figures from the GfK GeoMarketing…