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Without Safe Access to Asylum, People Will Keep Risking Their Lives in the Aegean
After protracted negotiations, this is what European asylum policy still looks like in practice.
Deprived of Right to Work, Refugees Struggle to Subsist Outside Syria
Barred from legal work, many Syrian refugees are forced to labor in the informal economy for little pay.
GM Crops: An Uneasy Truce Hangs Over Europe
EU member states have now exercised a new conditional legal right to prevent GM crops from being cultivated within their own territories.
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The Families of Missing Migrants and Refugees May Never Know Their Fates
As it stands, the states of Europe have consistently failed to provide such answers.
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“Economic Migrants” Getting Bad Rap in Refugee Debate
Like refugees, economic migrants deserve the right to relocate, as they are fleeing another kind of violence: poverty.
Syriza’s Dead End: Greece’s Debt and the Elections
Syriza and its supporters committed to an electoral path of change. When that path failed, Greeks were already demobilized.
The Refugee Crisis Is Rooted in the West’s Policies
Western nations have sought to absolve themselves of the refugee crisis. But the problem is primarily their fault.
Fencing Off the East: How the Refugee Crisis Is Dividing the European Union
Two very different responses to the crisis are emerging on each side of Europe.
As Greek Elections Near, Expecting More of the Same From Syriza Spinoff Party
Scholar James Petras explains why he believes the Greek party that broke off from Syriza will offer more failed economic policies.
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Why Is Fortress Europe Building Bigger Walls?
Nicole Colson explains the latest developments in the refugee crisis that is wracking Europe.