Yesterdays Council meeting with EU Ministers of Home Affairs in Luxembourg was lengthy – there was a lot to discuss. The most difficult issue was the asylum situation in Greece. Now, almost a year since the adoption of the Greek Action Plan, it is high time to evaluate what has been done so far. The Commission is, together with the Member States experts, the European Asylum Support Office in Malta, Frontex and UNHCR, actively engaged in implementing this plan. There are a lot of resources – economic, technical and humanitarian – that have been made available to Greece. I sent an evaluation team to Greece last week, the report of which was subject to discussion during the meeting.
Greece is unfortunately, at present, very much in the media spotlight. Yes, Greece has huge economic problems. And, yes it is also true that it is a country made up of thousands of islands with borders which are difficult to control, attracting a lot of migrants and asylum seekers. But the problems with the asylum situation in Greece are longstanding. For more than a century, they have failed to establish a functioning asylum reception and processing system, which has resulted in a situation where more than ten thousand people have been trying to apply for asylum in Greece, some for over a decade. The situation has worsened over the last few years – to the point where Greece now sees the arrival of around 400 people every day.
The evaluation report acknowledged that there has been progress in certain areas, for example, on the asylum process, in that more people have had their applications processed and the rate of approval has increased. But the humanitarian situation in detention centres in Evros, at the border to Turkey, is still dreadful. I have been there and I can tell you that it is unacceptable in an EU country to have people treated in such a way. And with the winter coming, the situation could get much worse. These people must have clothes and access to medicines. Another big problem seems to be the inability of the Greek authorities to use the resources that have been made available to them.
At the Council, we discussed how we can continue to support Greece. We feel great solidarity with Greece and want to help, but it is of course the Greeks themselves that have the responsibility to make sure there is progress.
Other issues on the Council agenda were: visa issues, the EU anti-drugs policy, the common asylum system, the Eastern Partnership and border control issues.
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Commissioner, next G-20 Meeting :
G-20 : Unity for Growth and Jobs: Clean Green Energy, Wireless Broadband , Fresh Foods and Fresh Water :
a ) Launch solid strategy for MASSIVE increase in International Trade & Commerce
b ) Increase consumer demand+ local manufacturing , healthy natural foods and farms , wireless broadband , fresh water – desalination + new clean green ENERGY global solutions = JOBS !
c ) avoid useless competitions+speculation,
d ) problems in EU ( and everywhere too ) :incompetence & corruption of entrenched bureaucrats
e ) CREDIT for small-medium businesses + Multinationals is the key,
f ) implementation of the EU DEBT PLAN IS VITAL since the neocon Media continues its attacks against the Eu+Euro, the “derivatives and shorters neocon army ” is willing to crash the whole Global Economy in order to cash-in their shorts ( bets against ) positions, and they pay reporters in the FT,WSJ,WP, NYT, as well as Fox-TV, CNBC,CNN, PBS , etc., to spin rumours, innuendo and scandal against the Euro and the EU daily and also to distract from the Rupert Murdoch Investigation and others .
Please read this great article about derivatives and who controls them :
Debt Plan Could Deny Those Who Bet on Default
By LOUISE STORY and JULIE CRESWELL
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/business/global/debt-plan-could-deny-those-who-bet-on-default.html?
“…International Swaps and Derivatives Association, a trade group…”
and this one about a group of Hedge Funds trying to short the Euro and the EU:
WSJ, By SUSAN PULLIAM, KATE KELLYand CARRICK MOLLENKAMP , FEBRUARY 26, 2010,
Hedge Funds Try ‘Career Trade’ Against Euro
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703795004575087741848074392.html?
All these financial reporters know who is behind the 2008 Financial Derivatives-CDS-Mortgages Disaster, the group of speculative Investors who also profited from the Iraq War , Oil-Gas-Commodities speculation and the Military Industrial Complex , the same group that tried to crash the USA States- Municipalities Debt -Bonds and the Dollar in 2010-11 , and when they were stopped, they went after the Euro , and they will go after others like Brazil ,China and India, etc., because they profit from chaos, wars and disasters, they crash markets and then buy key assets very cheap, a criminal fraud, but the World does not have the Leaders with the will to stop them , so who will ?
The Global Economy needs a massive push for clean green energy , wireless broadband , fresh foods and fresh water to create the 100 million new jobs that we need right now, and to re-direct and re-energize the whole global economy , but will the G-20 even propose any of this ?
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