GR. Update14th Sept. '15 #Elections 20.Sept.'15, Drowning Refugees#

GR. Update14th Sept. '15 #Elections 20.Sept.'15, Drowning Refugees#

Intro:
As we are are entering the week of the elections, most of the Greeks are still undecided and praying for the Politicians to be or will be reelected to do the best for the country and to govern for the best of the country and its citizens.




“Greece’s campaign for Sept. 20 elections enters its final stretch this week with polls showing the outcome too close to call, threatening fractious coalition negotiations that may delay or derail implementation of the terms of a bailout only sealed in July.
With SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and his New Democracy opponent Evangelos Meimarakis running neck-and-neck, pollsters say the result of Greece’s third national ballot this year could come down to turnout, undecided voters or a televised debate between the two frontrunners. []


(Greece) risks being dragged into difficult coalition talks that could delay the implementation of measures required by creditors in exchange for emergency loans, including for the recapitalization of banks.


With every survey published so far projecting a fragmented parliament after the election, Europe’s most indebted state risks being dragged into difficult coalition talks that could delay the implementation of measures required by creditors in exchange for emergency loans, including for the recapitalization of banks.
Greek stocks and bonds fell on Friday, with the yield on two-year government securities rising 98 basis points to 11.68 percent. The Athens Stock Exchange index has dropped 20 percent since Tsipras was elected in January. []

Fragmented parliament
No poll to date has projected more than 36 percent for either of the two biggest parties, the minimum threshold for a parliamentary majority under Greece’s electoral system. Their combined share probably won’t exceed 60 percent, [].

Undecided voters
Tsipras was elected prime minister in January at the head of a SYRIZA-led coalition on a promise to end austerity, only to sign the bailout accord after six turbulent months of wrangling with creditors that pushed Greece to the verge of exiting the euro area.[]
Tsipras’s best chance of victory is to convince uncertain voters, many of whom will only decide whether to vote on election day, to give him a second chance, []. A televised debate on Monday between Tsipras and Meimarakis could prove critical, [].”


[Bloomberg] (http://www.ekathimerini.com/201475/article/ekathimerini/news/greek-election-stalemate-beckons-as-campaign-enters-final-week)

Refugees drown as boat capsizes off Greek island

Intro:
The borders to Greece with Turkey is the Aegean sea, that makes the in influx of the illegal immigrants and refugees difficult to control. Many of these (among them families and children) are crossing the sea with inflatable boats, with an engine. Most of this people never saw the sea and are no swimmers. This year there was many drowns due to the weather conditions and the amount of people on the boats. As these people continue to see the way to Europe through Greece an easy way to approach, the drown and the uncontrolled invasion will go on.

“34 refugees, almost half of them babies and children, drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island on Sunday, almost certainly the largest death toll in those waters since the migrant crisis began, the coastguard said … [] about three miles (5 km) east of the small island of Farmakonisi, close to Turkey's coast, the service added. []

Details of the nationalities and ages of the victims of Sunday's sinking off Farmakonisi were not immediately available.

The coastguard said 68 people were rescued from the water and another 30 survivors from the same boat were found on Farmakonisi.

The vast majority of refugees reaching Greece quickly head north to other countries, with Germany the most favored destination.

On Lesvos, an island which has borne the brunt of Greece's migrant intake, a Reuters photographer saw 10 dinghies arriving within 90 minutes on Sunday. []

Greece has regularly called for more help from authorities in dealing with the influx, and caretaker Prime Minister Vasiliki Thanou urged the bloc on Sunday to agree a more comprehensive policy.

Other countries were wrong to criticize Greece's response to the flow of migrants, Thanou said during a trip to Lesvos.[]

The vast majority of refugees reaching Greece quickly head north to other countries, with Germany the most favored destination.

EU states have so far failed to reach agreement over proposals by Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to accept a mandatory quota system for accepting refugees.

[Reuters] (http://www.ekathimerini.com/201473/article/ekathimerini/news/babies-children-among-34-refugees-who-drown-as-boat-capsizes-off-greek-island)