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Quelle: Ekathimerini

Within sight of a razor wire fence guarded by Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) police, 35-year-old Iraqi migrant Saima Hodep rolls dough with an old steel water pipe outside her tent, in preparation for customers for her unleavened bread.

Saima is one of a small but growing number of migrants eking out a living on the Greek side of the border, where about 10,000 people have set up Europe’s biggest refugee camp and are showing signs of settling in for the long term.

She sells about 100 pieces of bread a day at the Idomeni camp, which has no running water but at least eight barbers.

„My parents didn’t have any choice when we ran out of money a few weeks ago. They had to do something to make money,“ said Saima’s 17-year-old daughter Saven.

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Quelle: DW

Griechenland hat Flüchtlinge bisher mit offenen Armen empfangen. Doch die geschlossenen Grenzen machen dem Land zu schaffen und damit nimmt auch die Toleranz der Einheimischen ab. Omaira Gill berichtet aus Athen.

Über 50.000 Menschen sind derzeit in Griechenland gestrandet. Einen Monat nach dem umstrittenen EU-Türkei-Abkommen ist das Land zum Epizentrum geplatzter Träume und Zukunftsängste geworden. Neben der anhaltenden Wirtschaftskrise hat Griechenland jetzt eine weitere Herausforderung auf der Agenda: die langfristige Unterbringung der Flüchtlinge. Aus der Durchgangsstation ist ein Daueraufenthaltsort geworden.

Die Vereinbarung zwischen der EU und der Türkei macht das Mittelmeerland zum Gatekeeper Europas. Eine Rolle, der es angesichts von Personalmangel und Organisationschaos kaum gerecht werden kann. Trotz der aggressiven Flüchtlingspolitik der Türkei und vieler EU-Länder hat sich Griechenland in der Vergangenheit für die Migranten stark gemacht – bis jetzt.

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Quelle: The Guardian

The port of Piraeus and a disused airport are focal points for Athens’ difficulties in dealing with the ongoing refugee crisis. The city’s mayor admits it is paying heavily for flaws that should have been addressed long ago

Even now, two months and 20 days after her journey from Afghanistan began, Haliva Khaveri still thinks of Greece – the country across the sea, the coastline she had looked at longingly from Turkey – in terms of hope.

It’s what keeps the 17-year-old and her entire family planted in Piraeus, the port city six miles south of Athens. “We are staying here,” she says with conviction. “Me, my mother, my father, my three sisters, my brother – we are not moving. We are staying here, and then eventually we go to Germany or Holland.”

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Since the morning of 22/4/2016, the abandoned Hotel “City Plaza” in the centre of Athens has been turned into an Accommodation Centre for Refugees. Currently refugee families from different nationalities, together with hundreds of people of solidarity are working collectively for the cleaning, repairing and organization of space, so that it can open soon as a project of self-organization and solidarity, as a center of struggle against racism and exclusion, for the right to free movement, decent living conditions and equal rights.

The Solidarity Itiniative for Economic and Political Refugees invites everyone to practical and material support of the Accommodation Centre “City Plaza”.

For practical reasons for the next few days and as long as there are works in progress in the building, it will not be possible to accommodate more refugees.

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