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Migrant families walk at the railway track at the Hungarian–Serbian border near Roszke village, on September 6, 2015. Europe is deeply divided over how to handle the continent’s biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II. (AFP Photo/Csaba Segesvari)
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Migrants arrive at the border between Hungary and Austria on September 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary
Hegyeshalom (Hungary) and Vienna, Reuters—Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bused to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers...Caption:
(L–R) Slovenia Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Paolo Gentiloni, and Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini talk with one another during a foreign affairs meeting at the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on July 20, 2015. (AFP Photo/John Thys)
Europe backs Iran nuclear deal in signal to US Congress
Brussels, Reuters—The European Union approved the Iran nuclear deal with world powers on Monday, a first step towards lifting Europe’s economic sanctions against Tehran that the bloc hopes will send a signal that the US Congress will follow. In a message mainly...Caption:
epa04840788 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras walks in the Greek Parliament, in Athens, Greece, 10 July 2015. Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos briefed in detail the SYRIZA parliamentary group on the latest developments early the same morning. The proposal submitted by Greece to Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem and the institutions has also been tabled at the parliament’s legislative service. The document is into 10 July’s daily agenda, so that the plenum can decide with emergency procedures on whether to authorize Prime Minister Tsipras, Government Vice-President Yiannis Dragasakis and Finance Minister Tsakalotos to negotiate the proposal. The new proposals are closer to creditors’ demands than previous offers in the areas of VAT and pension reform, as well as tax rates for the country’s islands, according to media who had seen a copy of the document. EPA/PANTELIS SAITAS
Opinion: Greece and the Return of Ideology
Ever since the Soviet Empire collapsed, a mantra of Western political analysis has been “the death of ideology.” The argument is that, having experimented with a variety of ideologies, from nationalism to Fascism and Nazism and, more recently, Khomeinism, mankind has...Caption:
Some of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) online recruitment propaganda. Asharq Al-Awsat)