Unwelcome Refugees

On April 28, 2014, a fishing trawler intercepted an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, a day after the tanker had left Dubai for Greece. Three men climbed aboard the tanker and spent the night packing hundreds of small sacks of heroin, weighing at least two metric tons in…

While the ink has yet to dry on that ground-breaking deal, she has the wind at her back diplomatically in Brussels and enjoys high domestic approval ratings, both on immigration and for her handling of the coronavirus crisis.After opening Germany’s doors to Syrian refugees back in 2015, she suffered electoral…

By AFP     Sep 20, 2020 in World Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Berlin and other German cities, urging the European Union to take in migrants left without shelter after a fire destroyed their biggest camp in Greece.The mask-clad protesters brandishing posters reading "Leave No One Behind" were…

The 2016 deal between the EU and Turkey, and the closure of the western Balkan route, curbed the massive influx of Syrian refugees towards Europe. But the story didn’t end there. In the years since, Europe’s intransigence on the issue of mass migration has led EU member states on the…

Germany to take in 1,500 refugees from Greek islands Germany said Tuesday it will take in more than 1,500 refugees from Greece on top of the 150 unaccompanied minors whose camp burned down on the island of Lesbos as Berlin tried to rally a fresh EU response to a years-long…

Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill is a ghost story. It’s different, though, from Kunzru’s previous book, 2017’s White Tears, a parable of race in America with a (genuinely frightening) supernatural dimension. I mean more that the author’s new novel is haunted—as every cultural product of our time seems destined to be—by the specter of…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Daniel Finkelstein in The Timeson the nearly men and women of British politicsMy vote for the best PM we never had“Over the weekend my colleague Matt Chorley incautiously organised…

Banksy finances boat to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean The street artist Banksy has funded a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa. Named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, the boat set off on 18 August from the Spanish seaport of Burriana, near Valencia,…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Nesrine Malik in The Guardianon failing to oppose the anti-migrant politicsBritish hypocrisy is to blame for the deadly plight of migrants“It is often argued that once it became clear that…

EL-HAMMA: The coronavirus pandemic has put the spotlight on struggling health services in southeast Tunisia, with residents and doctors in a COVID-19 hotspot deploring a lack of equipment and medics. The North African country had managed to contain its outbreak by moving early and imposing strict measures in March, but cases…