“We have many problems because nine out of ten immigrants in Europe pass through Greece. The Greeks are now only employing Greeks so these people remain stuck here until they can escape to another European country – usually through Italy,” says Begoña Kalliga Castiella of Caritas Greece.

Brussels, 17 February 2012 - Caritas Greece is working harder than ever to help people who are suffering from the country’s financial disintegration.

Shenzhen, China, 16 February, 2012: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that 45,000 Huawei engineers use virtual desktops as part of the world’s largest desktop cloud collaboration.

(Brussels, 16 February 2012) FoodDrinkEurope welcomes the European Parliament’s consent to the ‘EU-Morocco agreement on agricultural products and fishery products’ today.

The Parliament has sent a positive signal to the EU’s trade partners by breaking down trade barriers at a time when the relationship between the EU and the Southern Mediterranean region is high on the EU’s agenda.

Speaking ahead of a European Parliament vote on a convention on rules of origin for the Euro-Mediterranean region, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Paul Murphy called on MEPs to withhold their consent on the agreement "until it is sure that goods from the illegal Israeli settlements will not benefit from preferential access to EU markets".

Ahead of a Commission consultation process on family reunification of third-country nationals living in the EU, GUE/NGL MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides stressed the threats to "fundamental consecrated rights" to MEPs in Strasbourg this morning.

"It is essential for us to see the debate started by the Commission as an opportunity to consolidate this right and not the opposite as some are already doing."