“The buses came on Friday and we drove late into the night,” said Dunya, who comes from Syria. “It was pretty tiring,” said the mother of five on the phone. “But now we’re luckily in Izmir.” The 30-year-old widow now hopes to take a boat across the Mediterranean to Greece from the Turkish port. “Anyway, … Read more
A child died on Monday morning in a large fire in a crowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, the local fire brigade reports. It is a girl of six or seven years old. The fire destroyed two containers used as living quarters in Camp Moria. Some tents also went up in flames. … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières relief organization is concerned that the corona virus will spread in Greek refugee camps. On Sunday it turned out that a resident of the Greek island of Lesbos, where several refugee camps are located, was infected with the COVID-19 virus. MSF is particularly concerned about the Moria refugee camp. More than twenty … Read more
Refugee crisis Lesbos: Right blogger clashes with left in demo – The crisis on the EU’s external border attracts right-wing extremists from Germany. A blogger is said to have been “encircled” by anti-fascist demonstrators in Lesbos. – A fireman stands in front of the burned out community center “One Happy Family” on Lesbos. – Photo: … Read more
In a letter to Merkel, FDP chief Lindner demands renewal of the refugee deal The FDP advocates a renewed EU-Turkey refugee agreement and also advocates the admission of children from refugee camps on the Greek islands. This emerges from a joint letter from FDP chief Christian Lindner and the North Rhine-Westphalian integration minister Joachim Stamp … Read more
The crisis at the Greek-Turkish borders continues. While more groups of refugees are gathering on the Turkish side, the situation on the Greek islands is getting worse. All information in the news blog. After attacks in Syria Turkish soldiers have died, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edogan wants the European Union to move to act in … Read more
Seehofer calls the refugee situation precarious Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) warned of the situation on the Turkish-Greek border of a worse situation than in the 2015 refugee crisis. The situation is precarious, said Seehofer, according to participants in the meeting of the Union faction in the Bundestag. “If we make mistakes now, … Read more
Germany’s municipalities warn of another refugee crisis “A refugee situation like in 2015 must not be repeated. This would overwhelm the municipalities, ”said Gerd Landsberg, chief executive of the German Association of Cities and Municipalities, the“ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ”. The integration of the refugees who came to Germany is far from complete and remains … Read more
Ivete Carneiro Today at 08:25– There will be no image of this child, as there was of Alan Kurdi’s tiny body, blue shorts and a red shirt, hunched over himself on a Turkish beach. This four-year-old child drowned a few meters off the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos when – it is said … Read more
Germany’s municipalities warn of another refugee crisis “A refugee situation like in 2015 must not be repeated. This would overwhelm the municipalities, ”said Gerd Landsberg, chief executive of the German Association of Cities and Municipalities, the“ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ”. The integration of the refugees who came to Germany is far from complete and remains … Read more