Unwelcome Refugees

Sofia (AFP) - Single mother-of-two Sara Faizi from Afghanistan faced a dead end when she arrived in Bulgaria in 2018: the former bank branch operations manager needed a job but neither spoke the local language nor had any contacts.An energetic Bulgarian, Iva Gumnishka, 25, and her social enterprise Humans In…

By Elif Selin Calik | @CalikSelin | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Last December, Robert Malley, president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, penned an article for the Foreign Affairs magazine, addressing the topic: “The Unwanted Wars: Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever.” Today,…

A protest march of refugees and migrants was prevented from entering the city of Mytilene by police using tear gas Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday said they had arrested seven people on suspicion of planning attacks on migrants in the wake of anti-camp demonstrations this week.…

Kerülj képbe hírlevelünkkel, amiben a hét legfontosabb, legérdekesebb cikkeit, videóit ajánlják az indexesek. On Thursday evening, several hundred asylum seekers gathered at the Kelebia crossing on the Serbian-Hungarian border after marching from the town of Subotica, demanding safe passage to Western Europe. Unlike the incident last week when illegal immigrants…

There is no denying that the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union represents a loss for all involved, and strikes a blow against the very idea of Europe. But while Britain has left Europe, Europeans should not abandon the British legacy – particularly the deep, historical commitment to liberalism.…

There is no denying that the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union represents a loss for all involved, and strikes a blow against the very idea of Europe. But while Britain has left Europe, Europeans should not abandon the British legacy – particularly the deep, historical commitment to liberalism.…

Even as Europe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community enjoys a high point in legally enshrined human rights, its members face growing threats posed by political hate speech and violence, according to a report released Tuesday by an international queer rights group.The annual review by the European arm…

Ticker By EUobserver 5. Feb, 07:02 Migrants and refugees on the island of Lesbos in Greece mounted a second day of protests over the deplorable living conditions and in reaction to a recent asylum law enacted earlier this year by the Greek government. The protesters, numbering in the hundreds according…

Church continues to experience rapid decline in membership While the Church of Sweden is putting a greater emphasis on efforts abroad, its domestic stance gets weaker by the year. Its membership dropped from 95 percent of the Swedish population in 1972 to 57 percent in 2018.Archbishop of Sweden Antje Jackelén…

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas to disperse migrants and refugees protesting on Monday about conditions in migrant camps on the island of Lesbos and the slow pace of processing asylum requests. Riot police use tear gas during a demonstration of refugees and migrants outside the Kara Tepe camp,…