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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Denton Record-Chronicle
Some Syrians’ paths to
asylum are pre-approved
Tsipras insists he can lead
Greece out of crisis by 2019
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -
Greece’s left-wing prime min-
ister easily won a confidence
vote early today, and pledged
to usher the bailout-reliant
country out of its financial cri-
sis by 2019, mitigating credi-
tor-mandated austerity with
support for the poor.
Alexis Tsipras’ governing
coalition received the backing
of all 155 of its lawmakers in
the 300-seat parliament, with
all opposition members voting
against.
Earlier, Tsipras told law-
makers that his newly-elected
government expects to be able
to tap bond markets in early
2017 — a key condition for
Greece to make ends meet
without further rescue loans
from its European partners
and the International Mone-
tary Fund.
Tsipras’ speech concluded a
three-day debate on his policy
platform.
Tsipras was elected on a
four-year mandate Sept. 20,
despite ditching the anti-aus-
terity rhetoric that first got
him elected in January. He has
now pledged to implement all
tax hikes, income cuts and eco-
nomic reforms he agreed to in
July to secure a third bailout
for Greece worth 8 6 billion eu-
these ventures will help revive
recession-hammered
economy, which he expects to
start growing again by July
2016.
By Angela Charlton
and Milos Krivokapic
Associated Press
CRETEIL, France — Her
slain husband, bombed-out Da-
mascus home and refugee life are
behind her. The recipient of a cov-
eted asylum-seeker visa, Syrian
teacher Amena Abomosa is set-
tling into a new life in France with
her family. But now what?
They are among the few amid
a sea of desperate Syrians to ar-
rive in Europe with prior approv-
al to seek haven. British Prime
Minister David Cameron and
other European leaders would
prefer for all refugees to come this
way — applying at European em-
bassies abroad, undergoing care-
ful screening and entering the
EU legally. Everyone else, they ar-
gue, should stay away, instead of
risking perilous journeys.
Those fleeing Syria’s war
don’t want to stay away, and de-
mand for special asylum visas
far outstrips supply.
And even those fortunate
enough to have the proper pa-
perwork and persistence to win
those visas face challenges in
their new European homes.
After flying to France last
month from Jordan, the Abomo-
sas were sent to a spartan transit
center full of other refugees.
Lacking French or English, they
missed the train they were meant
to take to their new home. And
Abomosa, a former middle school
science teacher, was unable to get
medical attention for her 62-year-
old mother, suffering from half-
treated colon cancer.
Still, Abomosa, her mother
Hanna, teenage daughters Isra
and Reemaz, and 12-year-old son
Muhammad are hopeful.
“I’m entering the unknown,”
she said from a Paris train station,
en route to her new home, smil-
ing and choking up at the same
time. She dreams of returning to
the
“This will allow us to grad-
ually restore the long-term sta-
bility of the Greek economy...
[regain] investor confidence
and, at the beginning of 2017,
regain access to international
markets,” he said.
With a brief exception last
year, Greece has been unable
to borrow from markets since
it lost investor confidence in
2010 after under-reporting its
budget deficit. To avoid bank-
ruptcy and a disastrous exit
from the eurozone, it has been
kept alive for the past five years
on bailouts, delivered on con-
dition of tough spending cuts,
income reductions and tax
hikes.
f
ros.
‘We want this four-year pe-
riod to go down in history as
the time when the crisis end-
ed,” Tsipras said. “Our main
concern will be to support the
weakest.”
The country soon faces an
inspection of its reform prog-
ress by its creditors, and Tsi-
pras said he hopes to have the
process completed next
month.
Once the review is out of
the way, the government can
open crucial talks on reducing
Greece’s crippling debt load —
through easier repayment
terms — and oversee capital
injections of up to 25 billion
euros to its battered banks.
Tsipras said success in
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Syrian refugees Amena Abomosa, 43, right, and her daughter
Isra, 18, wait Sept. 24 prior to boarding a train to Vannes,
France, in the Montparnasse railway station in Paris.
Syria one day, but knows that day
will not come soon. “I only want
stability for my children.”
They fled Syria in 2013 for Jor-
dan, where they watched condi-
tions deteriorate recently. Abo-
mosa and her oldest daughter
found work, but struggled to get
paid because it Jordan doesn’t al-
low most Syrians to work legally.
Recent cuts in international aid
have pushed many Syrian refu-
gees to gamble on deadly smug-
gling routes to Europe — or even
to risk returning home.
Abomosa saw that only as a
last resort. She painstakingly
compiled paperwork to seek an
asylum visa — birth certificates,
school and medical records.
Almost by miracle, she suc-
ceeded. France issued 985 di-
rect-settlement visas last year.
Syria’s war has sent 4 million
people fleeing. Abomosa lists
her many friends who’ve tried
repeatedly and failed to win one.
“My daughters absolutely
wanted to see the Eiffel Tower,”
she said — and now they have.
Amena, 18-year-old Isra and 17-
year-old Reemaz slipped away
from the transit center briefly to
visit the tower, the Arc de
Triomphe, the Champs-Elysees.
Compared to countless Syri-
ans entering Europe on dubious
boats and crossing treacherous
land borders, the Abomosas ar-
rived in relative luxury, landing
In Paris’ Charles de Gaulle air-
port with visas in hand.
The transit center where they
ended up in the Paris suburb of
Creteil was “disappointing,” with
tiny, old rooms, collective kitch-
ens and bathrooms. And the in-
ability to communicate makes
them all vulnerable.
But it’s a world away from the
barbed wire on Hungary’s border
or the filthy camps in the French
port city of Calais where migrants
gather before trying to sneak
across the Channel to Britain.
France’s asylum system is
among Europe’s most troubled,
with long delays, a high refusal
rate and applicants often left
homeless while they wait for re-
sponses. The government is try-
ing to fix it, amid Europe’s worst
migrant crisis in generations,
and the Abomosas’ experience is
a rare sign of progress.
“This is a new life and a future.
We don’twantto feel that we only
receive, we also want... to give.”
These deepened a reces-
sion that wiped out a quarter
of the Greek economy and has
left 25 percent of the work-
force jobless.
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Stockholm
Trio wins Nobel Prize for
studies on cells, DNA
Tomas Lindahl was eating
his breakfast in England on
Wednesday when the call came
— ostensibly, from the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences. It
occurred to him that this might
be a hoax, but then the caller
started speaking Swedish.
It was no joke: Lindahl and
two others had won the Nobel
Prize in chemistry for pioneer-
ing studies into the way our bod-
ies repair damage to DNA.
“Their work has provided
fundamental knowledge of how
a living cell functions” and is
used in developing new cancer
treatments, the academy said.
Lindahl, who is Swedish, was
honored along with American
Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish
scientist Aziz Sancar for re-
search done in the 1970s and
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