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Refugee crisis: the fifth boat to land on Lesbos this morning alone
A British tourist helping refugees on a beach in Lesbos says of the debate in the UK: “If only they heard the stories.. Germany has put us to shame.”
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Labour MP for Wolverhampton South West, Eleanor Smith, an NHS theatre nurse before standing in last year’s general election, junior doctor Dagan Lonsdale, and Kate Andrews, from the Institute of Economic Affairs, discuss the NHS.
A British tourist helping refugees on a beach in Lesbos says of the debate in the UK: “If only they heard the stories.. Germany has put us to shame.”
David Cameron has signalled he’s not about to join any Europe-wide resettlement programme for refugees. He isn’t about to risk inflaming domestic opinion by adding to Britain’s population growth.
Following China’s “Black Monday” jittery global financial markets begin to recover – but do we all need to start worrying about China?
Angry scenes broke out in the Greek parliament today as papers were thrown into the air and a minister resigned while MPs debated economic reforms ahead of a bailout vote.
It is every bit as much about trust as about economics now. Of course, this being Brussels and this being the EU, nobody would ever use a word as straightforward as “trust”.
Greece is told it needs to enact key reforms by Wednesday in order to restore trust with eurozone leaders, who will then open talks to negotiate a bailout deal with the struggling country.
Zoe Konstantopoulou, senior Syriza politician and speaker of the Greek parliament, tells Channel 4 News that a no vote in the country’s referendum is the beginning of a new era for Europe.
Alexis Tsipras is getting ready to stage a climbdown and he will tell the people of Greece he’s about to accept something very very similar to the conditional bailout he rejected.
Last night’s ‘Yes’ campaign demo was big – I would say maybe a quarter bigger than the ‘No’ demo of Monday, and with a much more angry atmosphere.
As the midnight deadline for Greece to repay ¬1.6bn fast approaches, last-minute efforts are underway to avert a chain of events that could lead to Grexit.
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
Why did Greece collapse and Ireland survive? First, because the Irish crisis was a banking crisis. And in Greece you can’t impose austerity and hope modernise at the same time.
Labour is facing one of the greatest crises in its history, according to the man who oversaw the writing of the party’s manifesto.
Plans to force European Union member states to receive a “fair” share of refugees seeking asylum in Europe are to be fought by the UK, in favour of deploying gunships to tackle trafficking gangs.