Greece To Build Anti-Migrant Fence Along Section Of Turkish Border

Greece to build fence to stop migrants
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Greece aims to build an 8-mile border fence and boost its Coast Guard to stem illegal Immigration via neighboring Turkey. Greece's Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis, who announced the plan Monday, said it was necessary after more than 100,000 people entered Greece illegally in 2010. "This is the hard reality and we have an obligation to the Greek citizens to deal with it," Papoutsis said in a statement. "Greek society has exceeded its limit in its capacity ...

Greece considers fence on part of Turkish border
Not sure the Greek government heard how well the U.S./Mexico Border Fence was "working" but the Immigration news from Europe today  is that Greece is considering building a fence along a section of its border with Turkey.  Good luck Greece! KJ ...

Greece to build wall on Turkish border
Young immigrants at a detention centre in Filakio on the Greek-Turkish border. Photo: AP Brussels: Greece has announced plans to build a wall along its 206-kilometre land border with Turkey to keep out Illegal Immigrants. Christos Papoutsis, a Greek Interior Minister, insisted the wall was necessary after Brussels intervened last year to prevent an Immigration crisis by sending an elite taskforce of border guards to protect the frontier between Greece and Turkey, the European Union's most insecu...

Greece plans Turkey migrant fence
Greece has announced plans to build a 12km (eight-mile) fence along part its border with Turkey to prevent Illegal Immigrants from crossing the border. Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis said more than 100,000 people had entered Greece illegally last year and Athens had a duty to act. Greece has long complained to Turkey about Border Security. But the European Commission said such fences were "short-term measures" which did not tackle the root of the problem. The proposed fence ...

Greece plans fence on Turkish border
Greece is considering building a fence along part of its border with Turkey to deter Illegal Immigrants. Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis says the measure would be part of an effort to boost border Surveillance in Greece – the busiest transit point for illegal immigrants entering the European Union. Ministry officials say the proposed fence would cover an eight-mile stretch of border that does not run along the Evros River, meaning there is no natural boundary separating the two co...

Greece considers fence on part of Turkish border
ATHENS, Greece - Greece's public order minister says the country is considering building a fence along part of its border with Turkey to deter illegal Immigration. Christos Papoutsis says the measure would be part of an effort to boost border Surveillance in Greece — the busiest transit point for Illegal Immigrants entering the European Union. Papoutsis made the remarks in an interview with Greece's state news agency that was posted on his web site Monday. Ministry officials say the ...

Two Young Girls Climb U.S./Mexico Border Fence in 18 Seconds
In an effort to bring attention to more creative and just ways of managing Immigration, filmmaker Roy Germano shot two young women climbing to the top of the U.S./Mexico Border to show just how easy it is to climb to the top. It took the women, who both stand at about 5’5” tall, just 18 seconds to climb to the top. According to Germano, each mile of Border Fence costs US Taxpayers about $4 million to build and will cost another $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to repair and mainta...

Two Girls vs. The Border Fence
The Border Fence loses: I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the Congress to see what a waste of time, effort, resources, and money the border...

Cretan tools point to 130,000-year-old sea travel
A ministry statement said experts from Greece and the U.S. have found rough axes and other tools thought to be between 130,000 and 700,000 years old close to shelters on the island's south coast. Crete has been separated from the mainland for about five million years, so whoever made the tools must have traveled there by sea (a distance of at least 40 miles). That would upset the current view that human ancestors migrated to Europe from Africa by land alone. "The results of the survey not only p...

Greece: Fence Is Considered to Bar Illegal Immigrants
Source: New York Times Greece: Fence Is Considered to Bar Illegal Immigrants By THE Associated Press Published: January 3, 2011 Greece is considering building a fence along a section of its border with Turkey that is the busiest transit point for illegal Immigration in Europe, the minister of citizen protection said Monday. “Greek society has exceeded its limit in its capacity to accommodate illegal immigrants,” the minister, Christos Papoutsis, said in an interview posted on his Web site. “G

Spelman urges EU subsidy rethink
Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman is to call for a fundamental rethink of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. She will tell farmers at the Oxford Farming Conference the policy distorts trade and must be changed. Ms Spelman will also say Subsidies should have less emphasis on food production, and reward farmers who take steps to protect the environment. Her comments come as negotiations begin ahead of major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2014. Many of the farmers attending ...

World update: Progress in Ivory Coast standoff?
Ivory Coast crisis:  Political rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara have agreed to meet, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union mediator in the crisis, has told local reporters. Sudan Referendum: President Omar al-Bashir has landed in the southern city of Juba today ahead of Sunday's referendum. The vote could ultimately see the creation of a new African nation in 2011. Iran invitation to IAEA: Tehran has invited ambassadors from different countries...

Cyprus to license offshore oil and gas search
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - A top Cyprus energy official said Tuesday that the Mediterranean island will go ahead with a second licensing round for Offshore Oil and gas exploration later this year in a move that could stoke tensions with Turkey. The island's 51,000-square-kilometer (17,000-square-mile) exploration area off its southern coast is divided into 13 blocks. Kassinis said two blocks on the easternmost edge of the exploration area that were left out of the first licensing round in 2007 will...

Greece to Build Border Wall to Keep Out Illegal Immigrants...
The Greek government has unveiled plans to construct a wall along its 128-mile land border with Turkey in order to tackle the influx of Illegal Immigrants. Interior Minister Christian Papoutsis said the wall was a necessary measure after more than 100,000 people illegally entered the Mediterranean nation last year. But the plans - which have compared with the 650-mile barrier along sections of the border between the U.S. and Mexico - have been criticised by the European Commission as a 'short-te...

The New Year and Financial Crises
The New Year is likely to bring renewal of financial problems in the European Union. In Greece, the crisis was fiscal in origin and spread to Greek banks and banks in other countries that had lent to Greek banks and the Greek government. In Ireland, the crisis began with problem real-estate loans at Irish banks. That spread to European Banks, mainly British, that had lent to Irish banks. In its year-end issue, The Economist reminds us of the 2008 banking crisis in Iceland.  The Ic...

FORTUNE: 2011: Year of the bank run?
The deposit flight compounds the stress on a Financial System whose massive property-lending losses already have driven the government to accept an unpopular Bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Worse yet, it shows that the solutions policymakers slapped together in the fall of 2008 helped in some cases to create even bigger problems -- ones that are now coming due. Unconditionally guaranteeing bank deposits is just such a policy, in a country where loan loss...

Believe it or not, despite the Eurozone crisis, most countries sovereign credit risk fares better at the end of 2010 vs. 2009
The funny thing is that most people wouldn't believe the premises of the story that in the diourse of the last year, risk has fallen dramaally. Well, it is true considering where we were at the end of 2009 we thought that the world was going to end. When it didn't the market breathed a sigh of relief. Via Moody's: The “man-bites-dog” story of 2010 is that global sovereign credit risk actually generally improved in 2010, even in Europe, where the Sovereign Debt crisis intensified and ...

Greece fortifying border to halt migrants
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Greece will build a fence on its land border with Turkey to stem the flow of illegal migrants, a Cabinet minister says. Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis told the Athens News Agency the government will take a harder line and criticized other European Union countries for inaction despite the dispatch of dozens of guards from the EU border agency Frontex along the Greek-Turkish border in November. "Cooperation with other EU states is not going well. ...

Partial solar eclipse observed in Europe
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Sky watchers in Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East observed a partial solar eclipse Tuesday, the first of the New Year, astronomers said. The eclipse was partially visible in the greater Athens area, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reported. At the Athens Planetarium, members of the Hellenic Astronomical Society and amateur astronomers set up telescopes and were on hand to explain the phenomenon to parents and Children gathered to view the eclipse. The eclipse ...

Inflation in eurozone hits 2.2 percent
In a release, Eurostat said the estimate is unofficial and considered a "flash estimate." Nevertheless, prices are escalating significantly faster than the 1.9 percent annual Inflation rate recorded in November, Eurostat said. The euro zone is made up of 17 Member States with Estonia joining the group this week and not included in the estimate. The flash estimate includes no details or data breakdowns country by country. But the estimate is considered "reliable," Eurostat said, with 21 of the pa...

Crisis In Euroland
The euro, that artificial Funny Money used by 331 million Europeans in17 nations -- the 17th, Estonia, joined the euro just this week -- was conceived in sin and born in Corruption. The New Year brings the prospect that the sins of the European Union's Founding Fathers will be visited on its hapless citizens in the form of financial turmoil and fiscal pain. The original sins at the euro's conception included stealth, lies, and hypocrisy. That at least was consistent with the creation of "Europe"...

U.S.: Iran offer for nuclear site visits a 'magical mystery tour'
Ahead of talks in Turkey, Iran has invited Russia, China and the EU, but not the U.S., to view its nuclear facilities....

U.S.: Iran offer to let some countries visit nuclear sites a 'magical mystery tour'
Ahead of talks in Turkey, Iran has invited Russia, China and the EU, but not the U.S., to tour its nuclear sites....

U.S.: Iran offer for nuclear site visits is a 'magical mystery tour'
Ahead of talks in Turkey, Iran has invited Russia, China and the EU, but not the U.S., to view its nuclear facilities....

Iran opens nuclear sites to selected nations
Stumble This! Iran said on Tuesday it will open its atomic sites to some world powers, in a rare move swiftly dismissed as "antics' by the United States, which along with Britain, France and Germany, is not invited. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said invitations to visit Iran's nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak have been sent to ambassadors of some of the nations represented in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Diplomatic sources at the IAEA, the UN nuclear Watchdog ...