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In 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees landed on Greece’s island shores. Many had perished at sea. Today, the international public has been lulled into believing that Greece’s refugee crisis has abated. In fact, it has become a permanent scourge blighting Europe’s soul and brewing future trouble. The island of Lesbos was, and remains, its epicenter.
Some 2,500 years ago, Sappho of Lesbos wrote:
'Their heart grew cold
- they let their wings down'
To prevent that from happening to humanists across Europe, we need a new movement to campaign for refugees’ release from odious conditions and a swift asylum process. Beyond that, we need to end the policies that are contributing to their desperate flight. Yanis Varoufakis in Het Financieele Dagblad Saturday, 25 November, 2017 Source: https://fd.nl/ |