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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-12-24
CONTENTS
[01] Greek government maintains its red lines, FinMin Tsakalotos tells
El Mundo
[02] 804,465 people have entered Greece since start of 2015 - Coast Guard
[01] Greek government maintains its red lines, FinMin Tsakalotos tells
El Mundo
The agreement achieved between Greece and its creditors will allow
eventually the implementation of the governance model that Athens seeks,
Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said in an interview with Spanish
newspaper El Mundo on Wednesday, adding that he and Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras maintain their red lines in protecting the weak classes
and the unemployed.
Asked whether the deal with the troika constitutes a defeat of the radical
let in Greece, Tsakalotos said: "There were things we gained and things
we lost. If the deal was good or not, only time will tell."
He said that one of the reasons the government backed down and signed
is that it was not clear if outside the euro, Greece would be able to
avoid an agreement with its lenders anyway, because there are issues
"which don't just disappear by leaving the euro."
[02] 804,465 people have entered Greece since start of 2015 - Coast Guard
The Greek Coast Guard said on Thursday that a whopping 804,465 people
have entered Greece from the beginning of the year until Dec. 21,
showing the massive scale of the challenge facing the country.
Of those people, about half (457,149) were refugees from Syria, while
the rest 347,316 were economic migrants of 77 different nationalities,
mainly Arabic and African countries. Regarding migrant traffickers the
data show the majority are Turkish nationals and 12 were Greeks.
Frontex announced recently it will launch Poseidon Rapid Intervention
on 28 December, replacing the ongoing Joint Operation Poseidon Sea with
a larger number of officers and technical equipment.
The deployment will gradually rise to some 376 officers and interpreters
on the ground. They will include experts in screening, debriefing,
fingerprinting and forged documents from various EU Member States and
Schengen Associated Countries.
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