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EU satisfied with Serbia's handling of migrant crisis European Western Balkans (press release) TANJUG_mali BELGRADE - At Thursday's press conference following a handover of 82 vehicles donated to the Serbian Interior Ministry, Christian Danielsson, the European Commission's Director General for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement ... EU "impressed with Serbia's handling of migrant crisis" - Politics - on ...B92 all 11 news articles »

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By Dimitra DeFotis

A documentary short made about the migrant and refugee crisis in Greece received an Academy Awardnomination.

The 2017 Oscars will be doled out Sunday night. The film, 4.1 Miles, captures drama on one day in October 2015as the Greek coast guard rescues refugees and migrants in the choppy waters between Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos, which is 4.1 miles away. It was directed by Daphne Matziaraki, herself an immigrant from Greece who completed the doc as her thesis at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. It was published by The New York Times Op-Doc video portal.

In the film, a Lesbos island coast guard leader says of the refugees:

I cant reassure them. Its impossible. When I look into their eyes, I see their memories of war. and we see these families losing each other in the Greek sea. In the sea of a peaceful country. Because of the way they have to cross

Financially troubledGreece has balked at housing and feeding let alone employing the flood of people moving into Europe. As for the Greek economy, little progress was made this week on its bailout review with Eurozone creditors. The Global X MSCI Greece exchange-traded fund (GREK) was fractionally higher on the week. See our post, Greece: ETF Rises, But Is Austerity Over?Also see our Penta Daily post, Refugee Crisis: How to Help.

Deadline Hollywood interviewed the directoron refugees, Greece and more.

For investors, see our free post onGreece, Turkey, Refugees, Crisis & NATO from James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and dean of the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy at Tufts University. Also see ourposts on the Greek economy, and on Turkey for investors.

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Migrant crisis is not the issue of Serbia, it is a European challenge that requires a joint solution, said the Director General of the European Commissions DG NEAR Christian Danielsson following a visit to the migrant reception centre in Obrenovac, the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia reports.

Danielsson told the press that the reception centre in Obrenovac, just as any other similar facility in Serbia, was an example of close cooperation between Serbia and the EU.

He said that the EU would continue to financially help Serbia manage those centres, noting that since spring 2015 the EU has provided Serbia EUR50 million to cover food and other costs, Delegation reports.

Danielsson said that the EU also donated vehicles for Serbian border police and the Commissariat for Refugees.

Danielsson also visited the thermal power plant Nikola Tesla in Obrenovac together with Serbian Minister of Energy Aleksandar Anti.

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Italy is at breaking point, with 181,000 migrants travelling to the country, mostly by boat, in the last year.

And the government in Rome estimated the nation could only take a total of 200,000.

The countrys answer to the crisis is the Minniti-Orlando decree, which will see several detention centres built at a cost of 13 million to the taxpayer, which will act as depot for migrants returning to their homeland.

But 50 refugees took to the streets in Piazza Nettuno in Bologna to demonstrate against the walls of policy and expulsions.

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The migrants were keen to shatter the notion that they simply scrounge off the state and came to Italy for an easy ride.

One refugee said: We are accused of living in hotels paid with the money of Italian people, but in fact we waited in silence in reception centres.

The new decree, which could fast-track deportation for potentially thousands of migrants, has left the African cohort feeling despondent.

One protester said: None of us believes in the promise of asylum and hospitality.

If we still stay here silently then we will never have the permission needed to live and move freely in Italy and Europe.

The Italian government has also set aside funds for the management of the new proposed deportation centres, which will cost 3.8million in 2017, 12.4million in 2018 and 18.2million in 2019.

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A further 19.1million has also been allocated for 2017 alone to ensure the speedy exit of illegal immigrants, which the government said would be made in consideration of the exceptional influx of foreign citizens from North Africa.

These funds will be taken from the Fami-Fund Kindergarten program, migration and integration co-financed by the European Union.

European law dictates Italy must set up migrant centres, called hotspots, where officials can distinguish between those who merely claim to have fled persecution and those who actually have.

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The bodies of at least 74 African migrants were found washed ashore along Libyas coast, according to the Libyan Red Crescent.

The incident occurred near Zawiya, a city close to Tripoli along Libyas northern coast. A representative of the Libyan Red Crescent says that after finding the remnants of a torn rubber boat, he expects more bodies to turn up over the coming days.

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Travis Allen is a former US Army Infantry Officer. While a Platoon Leader in Afghanistan, he was part of a joint Special Forces/Infantry team conducting Village Stability Operations in Kandahar Province. Travis graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 2010. In his other life, he brews beer and is a regular contributor to the Duffel Blog - The American Military's Finest News Source.

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