Crise migração

source: bbc news

vocabulary:

1. trying to draw up a list of safe countries
2. they are overwhelmed by the numbers
3. trying to fulfil its obligations
4. to uphold border controls
5. chanting "Freedom, freedom"
6. with riot police
7. seek asylum
8. to stick to them

text:

Migrant crisis: Hundreds protest at Hungary station ban

Hundreds of migrants have protested for a second day at Hungary's decision to prevent them from travelling on towards Germany and other EU countries.

They are among 2,000 people camped at Budapest's Keleti train station, having bought tickets for onward journeys.

Meanwhile, more than 4,000 migrants arrived in mainland Greece from the island of Lesbos overnight.
The EU is struggling to agree a common policy across member states for dealing with the crisis.

The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says the European Commission, the executive of the EU, is trying to draw up (=elaborar) a list of safe countries of origin that failed asylum applicants can be sent back to.

And an EC spokeswoman said today it was preparing proposals for a mechanism to automatically redistribute a proportion of those seeking asylum among EU states.

Italy and Greece have complained that they are overwhelmed (=sobrecarregados) by the numbers arriving on their shores.

In other developments:
Turkish media say 11 migrants drowned trying to reach Greece
Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres tweets that two of its boats have rescued nearly 1,000 people from the Mediterranean
Police in Austria released 24 Afghan migrants who were in danger of suffocating from the back of van
A man was arrested in the German town of Massow after attacking people in a migrants' centre with pepper spray
Eurostar trains between London and Paris were disrupted overnight after migrants got on to train tracks

About 2,000 migrants camped overnight at Keleti station in east Budapest, having been prevented from boarding trains on Tuesday.

They had bought tickets after Hungary appeared to abandon efforts on Monday to register migrants, allowing huge numbers to board trains to Vienna and southern Germany.

Hungary gave little detail on its apparent U-turn, except to say it was trying to fulfil (=cumprir) its obligations as an EU member to uphold (=manter) border controls.

Hundreds of migrants again protested on Wednesday, chanting (=gritando) "Freedom, freedom" and waving train tickets, complaining they had paid hundreds of euros for the onward journeys.

Journalists at the scene said tensions were high with migrants involved in a stand-off with riot (=de choque) police.
A confrontation also broke out an another railway station in Budapest where a group of migrants occupied a platform after refusing to board a train sending them to a reception centre in the eastern city of Debrecen.
Police quoted by Hungarian TV said the "illegal immigrants" held their children aloft and demanded they be allowed to proceed freely to Germany.


At-the-scene: Nick Thorpe in Budapest, Hungary
The stalemate around Keleti station continues. Many families are trying to decide what to do now. Everyone is asking each other the same question - will they be allowed to carry on their journeys or are they stuck here until their money runs out?

Lines of police are currently blocking the entrance to the station. People are very frustrated and very angry.
I was talking to two Syrian girls who said they hadn't washed for days. They said the Hungarians looked down on them, and that hotels and restaurants around the station were increasingly not allowing them in. They feel very humiliated by the situation.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban is due to meet EU chiefs on Thursday to discuss Hungary's handling of the crisis.
Under an EU rule known as the Dublin Regulation, refugees should seek asylum (=asilo) in the first EU country they enter.
But this has proved hard to uphold with border countries such as Hungary, Italy and Greece saying they cannot cope with the numbers.

The German government has already said it will allow Syrians arriving from other EU states to apply for asylum. But on Tuesday, a spokesman said the Dublin Regulation had not been suspended.
"Dublin rules are still valid and we expect European member states to stick to (=cumpri-los) them," an interior ministry spokesman said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for asylum seekers to be distributed more equally across the EU.
But on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that taking "more and more" refugees was not the answer.

Greece saw the arrival of 23,000 migrants last week alone, said the EU's border control agency Frontex - an increase of 50% on the previous week.
Many of those arriving in the country do so on the island of Lesbos, where, according to the Kathimerini newspaper, 17,500 migrants were registered in the last week.
Some 4,200 migrants were brought from Lesbos to the port of Pireaus, near Athens overnight.
Greece's government says it lacks the resources to look after so many arrivals, but aid groups say the authorities should be doing more.
Greece's caretaker cabinet is set to convene to discuss the issue later on Wednesday.
Migrants or refugees?
The word migrant is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "one who moves, either temporarily or permanently, from one place, area, or country of residence to another".
A refugee is, according to the 1951 Refugee Convention, any person who "owing to a well-founded fear" of persecution is outside their country of nationality and "unable" or "unwilling" to seek the protection of that country. To gain the status, one has to go through the legal process of claiming asylum.
The word migrant has traditionally been considered a neutral term, but some criticise the BBC and other media for using a word they say implies something voluntary, and should not be applied to people fleeing danger.
Battle over words to describe migrants
The number of migrants entering Europe has reached record levels, with 107,500 arriving in July alone.
Germany expects to take in 800,000 migrants this year - four times last year's total.
The risks for migrants travelling through Europe were highlighted last week by the deaths of 71 people found in a lorry that had travelled to Austria from Budapest.
EU interior and justice ministers will meet in Brussels on 14 September to address the crisis.

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Explicitação da dívida do avanço da Grécia

Fonte: bbcnews

Vocabulary:

1. has spelled out the terms
2. and wages towards business
3. dozens of riot police
4. Talks have been in deadlock
5. savers withdrew more than €4bn in recent days.
6. of a possible breakthrough

Text:
Greece's economy minister has spelled out (=explicou claramente) the terms of new proposals to end deadlock on its debt crisis, amid hopes a deal can now be struck this week.

It includes new taxes on businesses and the wealthy, Giorgios Stathakis told the BBC in an exclusive interview.

Eurozone finance ministers have welcomed the plan, saying there could be a deal "within days".
Greece will default if it does not repay a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF loan by the end of the month.

If that happens, it risks crashing out of the single currency and possibly the EU.

Eurozone leaders are currently discussing Greece's proposals at an emergency summit in Brussels.

Mr Stathakis told the BBC's Robert Peston he was confident the new proposals to balance the government's books had broken the deadlock with its creditors.

"We [will] try to remove the tax burden from pensions and wages (=salários) towards business and the wealthy," he said.
He said the proposals also included an increase in the VAT rate for some selected items.

Greece's economy minister Giorgios Stathakis told me that his Syriza government, led by Alexis Tsipras, had avoided crossing its red lines with the new proposals.

So, he said, there would be no further reductions in pensions or public-sector wages. And there would be no increase in VAT on electricity.

He also said that the government had agreed with the IMF and eurozone governments that the targeted budget surplus would be 1% of GDP or national income this year, 2% next year and 3% the year after.

There will be no agreement with creditors to cut Greece's massive burden of debt, despite Syriza's earlier insistence on this. But Mr Stathakis told me he expects eurozone government heads to issue a communique later saying that debt relief will be on the agenda for negotiation in coming months.
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Meanwhile, dozens of riot (=choque) police have been deployed to prevent clashes between anti-austerity and pro-euro protesters gathered outside the Greek parliament building.

Speaking ahead of Monday's summit, European Council President Donald Tusk said the latest Greek proposals were the "first real proposals in many weeks".
"This evening I want all cards on the table. That doesn't mean I want to negotiate technical details, but it means I want to end this political gambling," he said.

French President Francois Hollande, also attending the meeting, said he saw improvements with the proposals but warned "not everything has been resolved".

Talks have been in deadlock (=impasse) for five months. The European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) are unwilling to unlock the final €7.2bn tranche of bailout funds until Greece agrees to economic reforms.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has again increased its emergency funding for Greek banks after anxious savers withdrew (=retiraram) more than €4bn in recent days.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, who has ruled out pension cuts, higher power rates, and an excessive budget surplus, said he hoped Greece would "return to growth within the eurozone".

He met the heads of Greece's three international creditors in Brussels, ahead of his talks with the leaders of 18 other eurozone nations later on Monday.

'Broad and comprehensive'
But eurozone finance ministers said they were not given enough time to study them for a proper assessment, amid confusion over different versions of the Greek proposals submitted.

Speaking after the meeting, Mr Dijsselbloem described the proposals as "broad and comprehensive", but said work was needed to check they added up "in fiscal terms".
One of the key power-brokers, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, told reporters his goal was to find an agreement "by the end of the week".

Earlier, Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters he had not seen anything new from Greece so far and "without anything new, there is nothing for the ministers to prepare for their leaders". The Irish and Finnish finance ministers echoed the sentiment.

News of a possible breakthrough (=avanço) gave a boost to European stock markets, with Greece's main stock exchange jumping 9% by the end of trading on Monday.
The deadline for Greece to pay back a slice of its loan is 30 June, but a last-minute deal would make it difficult to arrange the logistics of transferring the money.
A separate European Council summit is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, and its agenda is packed.

Greek debt talks: Main sticking points
Greece will not accept cuts to pension payments or public sector wages, saying two-thirds of pensioners are either below or near the poverty line
International creditors want pension spending cut by 1% of GDP - it accounts for 16% of Greek GDP. They say they want to target early retirement, not lower-income pensioners
EU officials say Greece has agreed to budget surplus targets of 1% of GDP this year, followed by 2% in 2016 and 3.5% by 2018; Greece says nothing is agreed until everything is agreed
Creditors also want a wider VAT base; Greece says it will not allow extra VAT on medicines or electricity bills
Greece complains creditors focus on increasing taxes instead of cracking down on tax evasion; IMF is concerned Athens is not offering credible reforms