Norway
has begun the construction
of a wall along the Norwegian-Russian border at the checkpoint Storskog–Borisoglebsky in a bid to prevent a new wave of migrants coming to Norway. Last winter more than 5,000 refugees entered the Nordic country from the Russian territory through the “Arctic route”. Will the measures halt the flow of migrants and how the construction of the wall on the Norwegian-Russian border will affect the relations between the ...
... Schengen Agreement. In doing so, he called into question one of the main principles of the European Union – the transparency of internal borders. Faymann’s words came against the background of a series of mass assaults carried out on women by refugees arriving from the Middle East and North Africa (
1
,
2
).
A total of 2418 such incidents were reported in 2014, which works out at around seven per day. This means that the
average number of sexually motivated crimes increased
several-fold....
... movement zone. The celebratory mood was overshadowed by the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century in the European Union. Until recently, disputes arising between states within the European Union boiled down to how to build a pan-European policy, with refugees entering Germany, France and other western countries. Now the crisis is threatening the Schengen Area as a whole.
Despite the fact that that
Schengen Agreement
was signed in 1985, its provisions only started to come into force ten years later,...
... violations of UN resolutions to protect Syrian civilians, lapses in negotiations attempting to bring a political resolution to the conflict and indifference, even downright hostility, from the international community to support the roughly four million refugees that the war has created.
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Maxim Suchkov:
The Middle East between the U.S.
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On July 1, 2015, the Office of the United nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
reported
an 83 percent increase in the number of refugees and migrants who had crossed the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe in the first 6 months of 2015: 137,000 people compared to 75,000 in the same period last year. Plans to combat ...
http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/interview-ms-irina-bokova-director-general-unesco/ © GEM.Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO became Honorary Membership at Global Education Magazine. Javier Collado Ruano: Today, 5th December 2015, International Volunteer Day, we give welcome to our special guess: Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO. I have had the opportunity to dialogue with her during the 2nd UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education celebrated in February of 2015...
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... domestic pressures, such as coup d’état attempts, diplomatic and military defeats, social unrest, and salient socio-economic cleavages.
Today Jordan is once again facing a multiplicity of internal and external problems: a vast influx of Syrian refugees, lingering discontent with the regime, and tensions between social groups. The most worrying development, however, has been the encroachment of IS, aimed at dismantling national boundaries and identities that the group sees as artificial and ...
... Angela Merkel announced that Germany could not manage to take every refugee, making Palestinian refugee children cry. However, in mid-September 2015 the German government announced the suspension of the Dublin Regulation, and opened its doors to Syrian refugees. “There is no legal limit to the number of people fleeing political persecution Germany,”
said
the Chancellor. In addition, the federal government will increase its 2016 budget by €3 billion to cope with the refugee situation....
As EU leaders find themselves hard-pressed to implement a quota system to resettle refugees flooding to the Union’s borders, the search for long-term sustainable solutions to the crisis continues. On September 14
th
, British Prime Minister David Cameron
visited a camp
run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in eastern Lebanon just ...
