Thousands of refugees are stuck on Greece's border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, overflowing from a packed camp into the surrounding fields, as they wait for FYROM authorities to let them continue their trek through the Balkans.
Police say about 6,500 people are at or near the Idomeni border crossing, with another 500 moved to a hastily erected camp on a small concrete landing strip some 20 kilometres (13 miles) away.
Authorities let 300 Syrians and Iraqis in between 10 pm (GMT) Sunday and 3am (GMT) on Monday, after which the crossing closed.
No Sharing Europe

Expressed my displeasure to Ch #Merkel re: #RefugeeCrisis agreement being flouted. Agreed on hastening implementation, more support to GR.
— Alexis Tsipras (@tsipras_eu) February 24, 2016
Borders closed
Greece trapped
“Decision to exclude #Afghans violates summit agreement”, said @imouzalas, "though it was not a written one..." We are...
Posted by Greek to me , greek2m.org on Monday, February 22, 2016

Turkish Coastguard is sinking the boats, takes children from mothers adrift, refugees tell the Greek authorities after crossing Volunteers’ voices from Lesvos denounce that Turkish Coast Guard is...
Posted by Maria Papapanagiotou on Friday, February 19, 2016

#Gate2West@Aegean
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. James Foggo, III, Commander, 6th Fleet, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Greece David D. Pearce,...
Posted by Greek to me , greek2m.org on Thursday, February 25, 2016
#NATO stands united: 5 ships from Germany, Canada, Italy, Turkey & Greece deployed in Aegean https://t.co/yg2YwlCS6k pic.twitter.com/MOiN98HfPd
— Oana Lungescu (@NATOpress) February 16, 2016
#NATO officers arrived in Lesvos, flotilla expected tomorrow, while #smugglers warn they… https://t.co/5RkrxQd3cP pic.twitter.com/Kn9bDzRYsw
— Greek2m (@moodhacker) February 18, 2016

NATO
in Aegean

Greeks wellcomed the NATO
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- Greek and Turkish vessels should have to be restricted to their respective territorial waters.
the fatal Greek Navy helicopter crash

NATO intervention in Aegean operations to stop migration flows from Turkey to Greece was agreed in Brussels, while Greece was waking up on a national bereavement day, due to the Greek Navy helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, with two crew members found dead and the third missing.
“We cannot afford #refugeescrisis Response in terms of #geopolitics only, said @tsipras_eu… https://t.co/hCtKZBnAzp pic.twitter.com/8Nec2rajCE
— Greek2m (@moodhacker) February 5, 2016
“Some Europeans may want to turn the country into a concentration camp or a warehouse for humans, which we will not allow”
Greek Defense Minister
said on Feb.5
“Greece has already
paid the price too dearly, much too dearly, in the midst of an economic crisis.” he said
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“Europe might close the Borders to Greece, even after the country’s commitments are fulfilled”, Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas said in a tv interview on Monday evening, adding that
“they don’t hear us in Europe!” , referring to the EU-Greece talks on European and Greece’s external Borders protection.

Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kamenos announced on Tuesday that Greece has met its deadlines and commitment to EU to have the hot spots ready before February 18th,and that the four five hotspots were already functioning .
Spokesperson for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship of European Commission Tove Ernst, also, stressed at a press conference:. Go to story
Schengen
Turkey in , Greece out ?
Retweeted Turkey News (@Turkey):Greek defense minister slams Turkey's 'hegemonic ambitions': Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos visits his ...
Posted by Maria Papapanagiotou on Tuesday, February 23, 2016

#Turkey in, #Greece out of #Schengen option, plus #NATO patrols
Alexis Tsipras answered to Angela Merkel via phone call, on her way back to Germany from Turkey, where she visited for a second time in less than ten days. Through the international News, the Greek government had the chance to know, as official Greek government sources said, that Angela Merkel proposed to the Turkish Leaders the NATO ships patrols in the Aegean seas between Turkey and Greece. more
Majority of the 28 EU member states adopt the highly critical Commission’s report
that “Greece seriously neglected its obligations on external border control
and that there are serious deficiencies in the carrying out of external border controls that must be overcome and dealt with by Greek authorities,” Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told a press conference.

Ankara suggested the Greek Prime Minister's plane flying to Iran on February 6th, to land for refueling in Turkey instead of the Greek island Rhodes for which the Greek Air plan was suggesting, and then continue the journey with Ankara’s overflight permission Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos elaborated speaking to Greek Star TV answering to questions of Defense Reporter Paris Karvounopoulos.
Part of the deal :Turkey's Black Mail to the West

A Schengen quarantine for Greece
A Schengen quarantine for Greece
- Greece has no land borders with the rest of the Schengen zone. In theory, installing new frontier checks will only affect air and sea ports.
- “Serious deficiencies” – a key phrase allowing other member states to impose longer-term measures on people arriving from Greece.
- These measures come under the never-before used Article 26 of the Schengen code.
- They can be brought in for up to six months and renewed up to three times.
- It is not clear what might happen after that.
euronews, 25/1/2016
The Germans, as well as several other EU countries have long been furious with the Greeks for allegedly simply waving the new arrivals through without registration and ID checks and setting them on the Balkan route to Europe January 29, 2016,moodhackerblog
A US Visa-free loss

@NikosKotzias : Out of question the Greece out of Schengen scenario
@NikosKotzias, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, said Frontex should deploy about 100 boats in the narrow stretch of water separating Greece from Turkey, the main launching pad for 850,000 refugees and migrants who reached Greece’s shores last year. Go to our News story for more

After the EE official warning to Greece
January 29, 2016, moodhackerblog
An other Germany
An other Germany


@tsipras_eu office strongly denounces #Visegrad countries’ #BlameGame” https://t.co/OV71XKgEwx pic.twitter.com/TJafPBBpZj
— Greek2m (@moodhacker) February 5, 2016
the other Europe
the other Europe
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Following Athens, Schengen pressure locks on Rome https://t.co/jBoMh18EIV pic.twitter.com/k33Xo5XyMj
— Greek2m (@moodhacker) January 27, 2016
Greece now only allowing asylum seekers heading 2 Germany & Austria 2 proceed, others blocked. pic.twitter.com/8ESfacZKPw
— Peter Bouckaert (@bouckap) January 26, 2016
Hungary and Slovakia vs.Greece: "We have been saying all along that if the Greeks are unable to protect the borders of their country, we should jointly go down south and protect them"
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had said early enough since November, with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico echoing the thought.
(AP,24/1/2016)


Greece-Parking well planned
400.000 #refugees’ capacity camp demanded in #Athens by #EU, @mouzalas revealed https://t.co/ROaPWKScoe pic.twitter.com/xeI20BrS4h
— Greek2m (@moodhacker) January 27, 2016
Greece's Complaints


"Europe", Ioannis Mouzalas said on Monday Jan 25,
"has shortchanged Greece by providing smaller-than-promised numbers of everything, from cots and fingerprinting machines to border guards. "
He says Athens wanted 1,800 Frontex
officers, but has got only 800
go to our moodhackerblog story
Greece's official Thesis and Demands on Borders Control
(as expressed by Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs)
- The audit of the refugees flows should be done in Turkey,
- Frontex must strengthen its fleet
- all newcomers, refugeees and migrants should be
that have to be completed as soon as possible
- there should soon be an agreement with Ankara

push backs are illegal
(via https://t.co/lYevdYuBEZ) https://t.co/6jjVMGvqNo
Posted by Maria Papapanagiotou on Saturday, January 30, 2016
The Greek Deputy Immigration Minister, Ioannis Mouzalas, told BBC’s Newsnight that the Belgian interior minister Theo Francken told him to
“drive them back into the sea; go against the law; I’m sorry, but I do not care if they drown.”. He also asked of a 300000 capacity refugees camp in Athens find that
No matter how many patrol boats are out in Greek waters, attempting to force a vessel of asylum-seekers back into Turkish waters is both illegal and dangerous, even in calm seas.
So unless a Turkish patrol stops a migrant boat and returns it to Turkey, there is little Greek or Frontex patrols can do once it has entered Greek territorial waters but arrest the smugglers, and pick up the passengers. or escort the vessel safely to land.
AP, 24/1/2016
Greece has repeatedly said that: No to joint- with-Turkey sea patrols

October 14, 2015
Alexis Tsipras said officially NO to Angela Merkel talking on the phone on Wednesday October 14, hours before the European Council for Migration, and while Turkey had gladly said Yes to joint patrols of Greek and Turkish Naval and Coastguard Patrols in the Aegean Tsipras said officialy NO to Merkel, insisting instead .
Instead of that the Greek Prime Minister insisted to ask the identification screening procedure of migrants and refugees to be held on the Turkish coast,

President Pavlopoulos to Merkel:
Yes to Frontex , No to joint with Turkey patrols
President of Democray of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos underlined the need for collaboration with EU countries and Frontex, butruled out joint Greek and Turkish patrols.
Focusing on Turkey, Pavlopoulos said the country needs to live up to its commitment to control the flow of refugees and especially economic migrants who leave from Turkey, “often with the cooperation of the Turkish authorities.”
He also noted the need to reactivate the readmission agreements.find that

The trafficking routes to the islands of Aegean and the smugglers’ methods, contacts and interfaces revealed a recent official Report of the Greek Police that is conducted by the cooperation of the Greek National Intelligence Service. According to the report, persons and contacts from Greece provide assistance to the Turkish smugglers and on time information as to successfully “synchronize” their movements to avoiding or verdge the Coast Guard patrols find that
Look how the migration flow was starting to rise on our Look Down the Aegaean Cross Life Borders Special Page