7 October, 2015 - Katoikos

The never-ending struggle of Syrian refugees

Katoikos World
EU
7 October, 2015

By Deniz Torcu

When I was working for a UNESCO Commission in Turkey a couple of years ago, we had started receiving dozens of phone calls from the Southern Turkish border with Syria, from refugees desperately trying to get in touch with some authority that could help them get settled in a camp or help them get to the EU

Mitteleuropa, Land of Migration

Viktor Sukup
The critical observer
7 October, 2015

The Roman Empire stretched as far as the Danube and the Rhine, where the name of Cologne itself still recalls the ancient Romans. But it was precisely the “northern barbarians” that put an end to it. And central Europe, the Mitteleuropa of the upper Danube, experienced the many migrations that completely changed the face of Europe.