25/02/16

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Pensioners dubbed 'Saga Louts' commit spate of crimes in Cumbria
Crimes executed by dozens of over-60s include theft, fraud, shoplifting, drink-driving and sexual offences

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pensioners-dubbed-saga-louts-commit-spate-of-crimes-in-cumbria-a6894431.html

[Maik]

BRUSSELS: Greece recalled its ambassador from Austria on Thursday and warned it would not be treated as "Europe's Lebanon" as the migrant crisis strained relations between EU states to breaking point.

Talks between European Union (EU) interior ministers in Brussels descended into chaos due to the row over Austria's decision to call a western Balkans meeting this week without inviting Greece. The EU's attempts to forge a unified response to the biggest migration crisis in its history are fraying as individual 28 member states increasingly take matters into their own hands to protect their borders.

The Greek foreign ministry hit out at what it called "19th-century attitudes" and said the envoy's recall was designed to "safeguard friendly relations between the states and peoples of Greece and Austria". Athens was already seething over a series of border restrictions by Austria, Macedonia and Serbia along the migrant trail to northern Europe that has caused a bottleneck in Greece, the main entry point to Europe from Turkey.

Greece, still struggling with the fallout from its eurozone debt crisis last year, faces huge pressure to stop "waving through" migrants to the rest of the EU. But migration minister Yannis Mouzalas accused other states of trying to make Athens take the brunt of the crisis.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Greece-recalls-its-ambassador-from-Austria-in-migrant-row/articleshow/51144347.cms