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		<title>Meanwhile in Australia</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/09/02/meanwhile-in-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we have arrived on Lesvos island, and we are preparing out first reports, discussing our timetable and meeting with local activists. Expect updates soon. But right now, we would like to turn your attention to Australia, where more than 80 Afghan refugees whose asylum claim had been rejected and who were detained in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On two of the hunger strikers in Athens [2 Updates]</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/29/on-two-of-the-hunger-strikers-in-athens/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/29/on-two-of-the-hunger-strikers-in-athens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 2: Victory! Just found the information on the UNHCR website. We wrote: We were discussing with a lawyer here in Greece, and she said that she would find it highly unlikely if they received political asylum, since the actual asylum system has been suspended. The Ministry of citizen protection itself has pointed out that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Please don’t paint…”</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/28/please-dont-paint%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/28/please-dont-paint%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Saturday, was the designated Frontex action day in Samos. We scored our first victory in the morning when all coast guard and Frontex ships withdrew from the port, disappearing somewhere. Up to now, they have not returned. The image below shows where they usually park their ships during the day… it is empty. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Words from Samos</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/28/first-words-from-samos/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/28/first-words-from-samos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days we gradually arrived in Samos and found a totally unexpected situation. The huge detention centre above Vathy is empty, all detainees have been transferred off the island, presumably to Athens, where they are either held in another detention facility or are released with the infamous White Paper. Currently, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger strike of Iranian refugees in Athens at UNHCR</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/24/hunger-strike-of-iranian-refugees-in-athens-at-unhcr/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/24/hunger-strike-of-iranian-refugees-in-athens-at-unhcr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were a bit slow to pick this news up, and there has already been extensive writing about the hunger strike, so all we want to do is to turn your attention to this ongoing struggle and urge you to support it in any way possible. You can start reading with this post of Devious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dublin II Deportation Diary</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/21/a-dublin-ii-deportation-diary/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/21/a-dublin-ii-deportation-diary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did you want me back in Greece?, ask the refugees being returned due to the Dublin II regulation from different other European countries. The deportation diary carrying the same name evolved out of a short visit in Athens, where activists from the newly founded infomobile project conducted interviews with refugees affected by this European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frontex office delayed?</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/20/frontex-office-delayed/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/20/frontex-office-delayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://w2eu.net/?p=1979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, nothing is ever moving as fast as said. A new article in The Economist brings the news that apparently, the opening of Frontex&#8217; Branch Office in the port of Piraeus will be delayed until October, after it was supposed to first open in spring, then in August. There are two more aspects in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patras &amp; Frontex</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/17/patras-frontex/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/17/patras-frontex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to keep you updated on the activities of Frontex in the Aegean, we dug out this recent article from a local newspaper, reporting about Frontex in Patras. Is the advertisement next to it not great? Yes, the Mediterranean used to be an area of travel, exchange and commerce, why did we turn it into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter from the Infomobil</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/17/open-letter-from-the-infomobil/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/17/open-letter-from-the-infomobil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Evros]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answer to the vice Prefekt in Evros region Mr.Papaioanou. On the 12.08.2010, we heard you on Thraki T.V , Mr.Papaioannou saying that this mass grave we have seen with our own eyes, doesn&#8217;t exist. You said: It was only some friends who buried their friends there and that the people who put this information on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass grave of refugees in Evros uncovered (1 Update)</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/09/mass-grave-of-refugees-in-evros-uncovered/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/08/09/mass-grave-of-refugees-in-evros-uncovered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first seven months of the year 2010, 38 human beings died while attempting to cross the heavily guarded Turkish-Greek border. The corpses of the dead are being transferred to the department of forensic medicine of the university clinic of Alexandroupoulis. Since they can often not be identified, only a DNA-test is being carried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samos</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/30/samos/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/30/samos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samos is one of the Greek island off the Turkish coast. At the closest point, you have the feeling you can easily touch the other side if you stretch your arm a little. Not surprisingly, many refugees and migrants attempt to cross the border to the European Union here with small boats. In 2007, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>w2eu all new</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/30/w2eu-all-new/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/30/w2eu-all-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is coming, we are again going to Greece, you might want to join us. In the meanwhile, we updated this blog and put more information and analysis into it. With this post, we will provide a short overview (Blogs are so messy…) Swarming Noborder: From the 27th of August to the 11th of September [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile in the discourse space…</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/30/meanwhile-in-the-discourse-space%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/30/meanwhile-in-the-discourse-space%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://w2eu.net/?p=1806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[new report on detention in Greece by amnesty international +++ European Court of Human Rights +++ Greece calls for a suspension of Dublin II Amnesty International published an new report about the detention of migrants and refugees in Greece on the 27th of July. The full text can be downloaded here, it contains some 60 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screening, Detention, Centres</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/27/screening-detention-centres/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/27/screening-detention-centres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://w2eu.net/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In October 2009, the Initial Reception Centre in Pagani on the island of Lesvos was officially closed, after a wave of revolts of the detained migrants and a worldwide scandalisation of the conditions inside the jail. Despite announcements of the government to build a new detention centre in Lesvos, Pagani is still the only detention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frontex in the Aegean</title>
		<link>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/27/frontex-in-the-aegean/</link>
		<comments>http://w2eu.net/2010/07/27/frontex-in-the-aegean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, 150.000 irregular migrants were intercepted in Greece, which amounts for 75% of all interceptions in the EU. Even though in 2010, this number is likely to drop again, it is clear that the closure of other routes to Europe (West Africa to Spain, Libya to Italy/Malta) has made Greece the presently last remaining [...]]]></description>
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