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In September 2015, an EU council reluctantly agreed a relocation plan for 160,000 refugees from Italy and Greece. The were to be distributed to the twenty-eight EU states, according to size and population. At the time of writing, only four thousand refugees have been reolcated to the rest of Europe.
— Sep 17, 2017 10:05AM
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Dan Sumption
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The European Union has unilaterally declared itself closed to outsiders against international and European law. … The survival of the idea of Europe depends upon the Union's response to the greatest humanitarian crisis since its inception. If Fortress Europe continues, with its violation of international law and basic principles of humanity, the EU does not deserve to survive.
— Sep 17, 2017 10:07AM
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"When a local cuisine or a religious festival becomes part of the heritage industry, their connection with a living community is loosened. Something celebrated and sold as part of ‘tradition’ has stopped being a form of life."
— Sep 16, 2017 05:32AM
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"the sale of the port of Piraeus to the Chinese company Cosco ‘had the interesting postmodern twist of a left-wing government in a capitalist society imposing labour standards on a right-wing company from a communist country’"
— Sep 12, 2017 09:58AM
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"I retreated to writing the journal in an attempt first to understand the scene around me and then to uncover the deeper meanings behind the often offensive words exchanged. It soon became clear to me that my professional deformation was turning me into an ethnographer of a strange and powerful tribe."
— Sep 10, 2017 10:12AM
