Three days of national mourning have been declared in Greece after the sinking of a migrant boat on the night of June 13 to 14 in the south-west of the Peloponnese. Nearly 80 dead bodies were found by the coastguards, but the toll could increase, because the boat was carrying more than 500 passengers. Demonstrations were held across the country on Thursday evening to denounce migration policies. “ It brings me flashbacks, I’m sad and angry. How many more souls do we have to lose before we turn things around and accept these people ? asks Nour, a Syrian refugee who also arrived by sea seven years ago in Greece.
The drift towards the ultra-right in Israel is pushing more and more citizens into exile. Many are trying to rebuild their lives in Greece, attracted by cheap real estate prices and a good quality of life. But this is driving up prices, to the detriment of young Greeks who are finding it increasingly difficult to find housing and who are seeing their wages stagnate.
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Northern Kosovo still dangerously close to violence
Kosovo police have arrested one of the organizers violent clashes in which around 30 Kfor soldiers were injured on 29 May. In response, three Kosovar police officers were arrested ” according to Belgrade, “ kidnapped according to Pristina, near the Serbian border. For its part, the EU is tightening the screw by preparing measures against the government of Albin Kurti.
In Kosovo, no one liked the offer of aid made by the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama to achieve form the controversial Association of Serbian Majority Municipalities. If Albin Kurti proposes an alternative model inspired by Croatia to avoid the formation of a “ Kosovo Serb entity inspired by the model of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Americans are not letting up the pressure.
When all of Serbia demonstrates, a city is silent (but thinks none the less)
For a month now, citizens have been multiplying demonstrations to denounce the violence that plagues the Serbia of Aleksandar Vučić and the failures of power after the killings of May 3 and 4. They are each time tens of thousands in all the cities, except one : Novi Pazar, in Sandžak, stands aside from the movement. As (almost) always for this city mainly populated by the Bosnian minority. Reporting.
After more than three weeks of strike, teachers in Romania have finally obtained a salary increase of 25%. Their anger had exploded against a background of inflation and hypocrisy of the power, which prided itself on having launched a major program entitled “ Educated Romania »while in reality allowing the education system to crumble. State of play.
The Balkans gripped by shooting fever ?
A shooting took place in an elementary school from Lukavac, 15 km from Tuzla, on June 14. The author is a 13 year old boy. He shot a teacher at the school, who was taken to the emergency room in serious condition. The incident comes more than a month after the tragedy in Belgrade.
“ I would do it again, every second was worth it. In a video posted on social media, Croatian war criminal Dario Kordić said “ regret nothing » of his actions. The former military official had been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the ICTY for war crimes and crimes against humanity for having carried out “ ethnic cleansing operations against the Bosnian population of the village of Ahmići, in central Bosnia, on April 16, 1993. During this massacre, more than one hundred people were killed, including about thirty mothers and children. He was released in 2014. His statement sparked an outcry in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After revealing in 2018 a sunken city off Korčula, Croatian archaeologists have just announced an exceptional discovery : the road, now under water, which connected it to the mainland. Research will continue on a second, similar site located off Vela Luka.