*waits for the USA to P!$$ on the parade lol*
Posted by -Just Call Me Jari- (Member # 14451) on :
^^^^ AWWW...So Sad..
Posted by Masonic Rebel (Member # 9549) on :
So is this one of the reasons why the dow went down in points ? Last week
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
To be short like a dwarf, noisy, and a war criminal is not a good thing--even when you wear high-heel shoes and have to get on a stool to see eye-to-eye with the model you walk around with.
Posted by Oshun (Member # 19740) on :
Why are people pulling out investments because France is going socialist?
Posted by the lioness (Member # 17353) on :
Hollande's platform calls for:
-Rolling back the retirement age from 62 to 60. -Hiring some 60,000 more teachers. -Holding off balancing the budget until 2017. -Imposing a 75 per cent top tax bracket on those earning more than a million euros ($1.3 million) a year. -creating 150,000 subsidized jobs in areas of high unemployment -balance France’s budget by 2017 - reduce the country’s dependence on nuclear power. -Mr. Hollande said he would spend more than Mr. Sarkozy had on social programs, he would also raise more money through taxes. - pull French troops out of Afghanistan, “our mission is finished”;
Over a five-year term, Mr. Hollande said, he wants to increase spending gradually by up to 20 billion euros (about $26 billion) and government income — taxes — by up to 29 billion euros (about $38 billion).
Mr. Hollande said he would raise the income tax bracket for those making more than 150,000 euros a year (about $197,000) to 45 percent from 40 percent, cap tax deductions for individuals at 10,000 euros a year (about $13,000), increase taxes on bank profits and create a financial-transaction tax — the last also a promise of Mr. Sarkozy.
“I only make promises that I will be able to keep,” he said. “Everything I say will be done.”
Hollande himself was not viewed as a Socialist presidential candidate until front-runner Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief and Socialist frontrunner, was arrested in New York in May 2011 on sexual assault charges, effectively ending Strauss-Kahn’s presidential hopes.
ROME (AP) -- Several candidates opposed to austerity measures were making a strong showing Monday in early projections from Italy's local elections - the first nationwide test for Premier Mario Monti since he was named to save Italy from its debt crisis.
Analysts were watching for signs of voter anger over Monti's austerity measures and toward mainstream parties that have supported them since Monti took over from Silvio Berlusconi in November.
Candidates for mayor in Parma and in Genoa who galvanized discontent with mainstream politics appeared to gain enough votes to force a runoff, projections showed. And the popular mayor of Verona, whose Northern League party has strongly opposed a new housing tax, appeared headed to a first round victory.
Italy's more established parties were faring less well.
"We made a mistake with our candidates, I don't have a problem admitting it," said Ignazio La Russa, former defense minister in the Berlusconi government.
"It's practically a tsunami, it's anti-politics," said Italo Bocchino, a leader of a small center-right party which broke with Berlusconi's coalition during the media mogul's last government.
The government said turnout after polls closed was 67.5 percent, 6.5 percent lower than in the last such elections.
Some 9.5 million Italians were eligible to vote for 942 city councils and mayorships.
Appearing headed to garner most of the vote in Palermo - but possibly not the more than 50-percent share to avoid a runoff - was Leoluco Orlando, a former mayor of that Sicilian city running again for that post. His Italy of Values Party has refused to join the majority of forces in Parliament supporting Monti and has denounced the premier for demanding what it says are too many sacrifices from the working class and not enough from the rich.
"The old politics is dead" in Palermo, Orlando said in an interview on Sky TG24 TV, referring to the two big blocs of the center-right and center-left parties that have governed Italy for some two decades.
Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn warned rivals and reformers Sunday that "the time for fear has come" after exit polls showed them securing their entry in parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years. "The time for fear has come for those who betrayed this homeland," Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos told a news conference at an Athens hotel, flanked by menacing shaven-headed young men. "We are coming," the 55-year-old said as supporters threw firecrackers outside. According to updated exit polls, the once-marginal party will end up winning over six percent of the vote and sending 19 deputies to the 300-seat parliament on a wave of immigration and crime fears, as well as anti-austerity anger. Exulting in the apparent breakthrough, Michaloliakos quoted Julius Caesar: "Veni, Vidi, Vici" -- I came, I saw, I conquered. Michaloliakos said his party would fight against "world usurers" and the "slavery" of an EU-IMF loan agreement which he likened to a "dictatorship". "Greece is only the beginning," he shouted at reporters as he walked to the news conference, accusing foreign media of spreading lies about his movement. At the last general election in 2009, the virulently anti-immigrant group had scored just 0.29 percent. Once part of the country's political fringe, the Hryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) had already made headlines in 2010 by electing Michaloliakos, 55, to Athens' city council on a wave of anti-immigration tension in the capital's poorer districts. Shortly after being elected to the council thanks to more than 10,000 votes in the Greek capital, Michaloliakos made waves by giving two fascist salutes captured by a television camera. A mathematician, Michaloliakos has said Greece could survive "very nicely" without the EU-IMF recovery deal. "Certainly we should break the agreement," he told the Athens News English-language weekly last month. "After that, we will survive very nicely. Greece is a rich country," he said, adding that the country would not necessarily have to return to the drachma. On his agenda, Michaloliakos said his focus would be on "national issues, social issues, the problem of illegal immigration, attribution of responsibility for all scandals." All illegal migrants "should leave our country," he said. Golden Dawn has strengthened on the back of the country's deep economic crisis -- it has been bailed out twice -- with unemployment at 20 percent and poverty rising. It has portrayed immigrants as stealing Greeks' jobs and as being responsible for a wave of crime, as the country is the first point of entry for many illegal migrants into the European Union. The mainstream parties on the right, including New Democracy of the country's likely next prime minister Antonis Samaras, have been forced to boost their own anti-migration rhetoric to keep up. The outgoing coalition government planned a network of detention camps around the country to hold migrants earmarked for repatriation, and its socialist predecessors began building a wire fence on the Greek-Turkish border as a deterrent. With Greece the main entry-point for illegal migrants into Europe, thousands of migrants unable to cross to other EU states due to legal constraints have created urban ghettos in Athens, Patras and other cities. Hostility from local residents has spiked in recent months with the deterioration of an economic crisis that has brought recession and hundreds of thousands of job losses in Greece.
Posted by Oshun (Member # 19740) on :
quote:Originally posted by the lioness: -Holding off balancing the budget until 2017. -Imposing a 75 per cent top tax bracket on those earning more than a million euros ($1.3 million) a year.
- pull French troops out of Afghanistan, “our mission is finished”;
Posted by the lioness (Member # 17353) on :
^^^^ those are his policies as reported in the NYTimes, I merely reported it.
Posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist (Member # 18853) on :
Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn warned rivals and reformers Sunday that "the time for fear has come" after exit polls showed them securing their entry in parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years. "The time for fear has come for those who betrayed this homeland," Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos told a news conference at an Athens hotel, flanked by menacing shaven-headed young men. "We are coming," the 55-year-old said as supporters threw firecrackers outside. According to updated exit polls, the once-marginal party will end up winning over six percent of the vote and sending 19 deputies to the 300-seat parliament on a wave of immigration and crime fears, as well as anti-austerity anger. Exulting in the apparent breakthrough, Michaloliakos quoted Julius Caesar: "Veni, Vidi, Vici" -- I came, I saw, I conquered. Michaloliakos said his party would fight against "world usurers" and the "slavery" of an EU-IMF loan agreement which he likened to a "dictatorship". "Greece is only the beginning," he shouted at reporters as he walked to the news conference, accusing foreign media of spreading lies about his movement. At the last general election in 2009, the virulently anti-immigrant group had scored just 0.29 percent. Once part of the country's political fringe, the Hryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) had already made headlines in 2010 by electing Michaloliakos, 55, to Athens' city council on a wave of anti-immigration tension in the capital's poorer districts. Shortly after being elected to the council thanks to more than 10,000 votes in the Greek capital, Michaloliakos made waves by giving two fascist salutes captured by a television camera. A mathematician, Michaloliakos has said Greece could survive "very nicely" without the EU-IMF recovery deal. "Certainly we should break the agreement," he told the Athens News English-language weekly last month. "After that, we will survive very nicely. Greece is a rich country," he said, adding that the country would not necessarily have to return to the drachma. On his agenda, Michaloliakos said his focus would be on "national issues, social issues, the problem of illegal immigration, attribution of responsibility for all scandals." All illegal migrants "should leave our country," he said. Golden Dawn has strengthened on the back of the country's deep economic crisis -- it has been bailed out twice -- with unemployment at 20 percent and poverty rising. It has portrayed immigrants as stealing Greeks' jobs and as being responsible for a wave of crime, as the country is the first point of entry for many illegal migrants into the European Union. The mainstream parties on the right, including New Democracy of the country's likely next prime minister Antonis Samaras, have been forced to boost their own anti-migration rhetoric to keep up. The outgoing coalition government planned a network of detention camps around the country to hold migrants earmarked for repatriation, and its socialist predecessors began building a wire fence on the Greek-Turkish border as a deterrent. With Greece the main entry-point for illegal migrants into Europe, thousands of migrants unable to cross to other EU states due to legal constraints have created urban ghettos in Athens, Patras and other cities. Hostility from local residents has spiked in recent months with the deterioration of an economic crisis that has brought recession and hundreds of thousands of job losses in Greece.
Yep.
And all the immigrants such as blacks are now on the streets in protests.
The future of Greece is going to be very violent racial conflict.
Posted by Oshun (Member # 19740) on :
quote:Originally posted by the lioness: ^^^^ those are his policies as reported in the NYTimes, I merely reported it.
And that was Faux News' reaction, merely reporting Posted by the lioness (Member # 17353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Oshun:
quote:Originally posted by the lioness: ^^^^ those are his policies as reported in the NYTimes, I merely reported it.
And that was Faux News' reaction, merely reporting
what specifically is the quote you are calling a "Faux News Reaction" ?
Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn warned rivals and reformers Sunday that "the time for fear has come" after exit polls showed them securing their entry in parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years. "The time for fear has come for those who betrayed this homeland," Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos told a news conference at an Athens hotel, flanked by menacing shaven-headed young men. "We are coming," the 55-year-old said as supporters threw firecrackers outside. According to updated exit polls, the once-marginal party will end up winning over six percent of the vote and sending 19 deputies to the 300-seat parliament on a wave of immigration and crime fears, as well as anti-austerity anger. Exulting in the apparent breakthrough, Michaloliakos quoted Julius Caesar: "Veni, Vidi, Vici" -- I came, I saw, I conquered. Michaloliakos said his party would fight against "world usurers" and the "slavery" of an EU-IMF loan agreement which he likened to a "dictatorship". "Greece is only the beginning," he shouted at reporters as he walked to the news conference, accusing foreign media of spreading lies about his movement. At the last general election in 2009, the virulently anti-immigrant group had scored just 0.29 percent. Once part of the country's political fringe, the Hryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) had already made headlines in 2010 by electing Michaloliakos, 55, to Athens' city council on a wave of anti-immigration tension in the capital's poorer districts. Shortly after being elected to the council thanks to more than 10,000 votes in the Greek capital, Michaloliakos made waves by giving two fascist salutes captured by a television camera. A mathematician, Michaloliakos has said Greece could survive "very nicely" without the EU-IMF recovery deal. "Certainly we should break the agreement," he told the Athens News English-language weekly last month. "After that, we will survive very nicely. Greece is a rich country," he said, adding that the country would not necessarily have to return to the drachma. On his agenda, Michaloliakos said his focus would be on "national issues, social issues, the problem of illegal immigration, attribution of responsibility for all scandals." All illegal migrants "should leave our country," he said. Golden Dawn has strengthened on the back of the country's deep economic crisis -- it has been bailed out twice -- with unemployment at 20 percent and poverty rising. It has portrayed immigrants as stealing Greeks' jobs and as being responsible for a wave of crime, as the country is the first point of entry for many illegal migrants into the European Union. The mainstream parties on the right, including New Democracy of the country's likely next prime minister Antonis Samaras, have been forced to boost their own anti-migration rhetoric to keep up. The outgoing coalition government planned a network of detention camps around the country to hold migrants earmarked for repatriation, and its socialist predecessors began building a wire fence on the Greek-Turkish border as a deterrent. With Greece the main entry-point for illegal migrants into Europe, thousands of migrants unable to cross to other EU states due to legal constraints have created urban ghettos in Athens, Patras and other cities. Hostility from local residents has spiked in recent months with the deterioration of an economic crisis that has brought recession and hundreds of thousands of job losses in Greece.
Yep.
And all the immigrants such as blacks are now on the streets in protests.
The future of Greece is going to be very violent racial conflict.
This evening the news report stated that in the past Afghani people have been attacked, the man in case was interviewed.
However, you can't blame the bad economic condition of Greece on immigrants. That's just plain stupid. And you are known for being plain stupid.
It shows how uneducated you are, and numb on economic principles.
It was created by Greeks themselves, the Greek parliament, their spendings, early retirements vs high salaries. Etc...This nazi party doesn't want to cut back on spendings...they want to continue the route as was done in the past. Then when things turnout bad...blame others...such as immigrants.
Blacks of Greece of mostly Somali people. lol
Michaloliakos said his party would fight against "world usurers" and the "slavery" of an EU-IMF loan agreement which he likened to a "dictatorship".
The economy is projected to shrink by about 6 percent in 2011, and unemployment has reached 16½ percent of the work force. And while competitiveness is slowly improving, the country has yet to build up a critical mass of structural reforms to reenergize growth.
“The economy is continuing to trend downwards, reflecting that the hoped for improvement in market sentiment and in the investment climate is not materializing,” IMF mission chief for Greece, Poul Thomsen, told reporters in a briefing tied to the release of the IMF’s latest report on the economy.
On December 5, the IMF’s Executive Board approved the fifth review of Greece’s economic program and released a tranche of €2.2 billion under the country’s 3-year Stand-By Arrangement. The IMF-supported program, approved in May 2010, is part of a joint package of financing with euro area member states amounting to €110 billion.
Political backing
The appointment of Lucas Papademos as new prime minister and the public endorsement of the program objectives by all the major political parties has raised expectations that Greece will now be able to make headway on important reforms. “One problem with the program has clearly been the lack of broad political support,” Thomsen said. “Now that the fifth review has been signed off by the new government, and by the three partners that are supporting this government, we are hopeful that this will help strengthen the program and the ability to implement reforms.”
No room for further tax hikes
During 2010, the Greek government managed to reduce the fiscal deficit by 5 percentage points, despite a contraction in GDP of almost 4 percent. But further progress in reducing the deficit is going to be hard without underlying structural fiscal reforms. The fiscal deficit is now expected to be 9 percent this year, against the program target of 7½ percent.
“One of the things we have seen in 2011 is that we have reached the limit of what can be achieved through increasing taxes,” Thomsen said. “Any further measures, if needed, should be on the expenditure side, and on the revenue side we have to rely on improving tax administration.” Prospects for debt sustainability
Greece and its European partners agreed October 26 on a debt write-down by private creditors of 50 percent of sovereign bond face value as a means to help reduce Greece’s overall debt burden and restore debt sustainability. This Private Sector Involvement, or PSI, will also help secure the financing needed to help Greece implement its adjustment program. The specific details of the operation still remain to be finalized, with January now mentioned as a deadline for completion. But sustainability cannot be restored by debt write-downs alone, Thomsen said. “What the debt sustainability analysis shows is that the outlook for debt is highly dependent on growth. That, of course, underscores the point of what this is all about: structural reform to boost productivity. If we don’t get this boost to potential growth over the medium term, the debt sustainability analysis shows that there is clearly a problem,” he said.
Preserving stability in the financial sector
The problem for Greece is that its banks are heavily exposed to Greek sovereign bonds. The PSI deal now under discussion would have a deep impact on bank capital. Recapitalization needs could be large in case of a 50 percent haircut, the IMF notes in its report.
Concerns about the banking system have led to an acceleration of deposit withdrawals, with total outflows since the beginning of the year now amounting to €32 billion, or more than 16 percent of end-year deposits.
With the banks struggling to hold onto their deposit base and economic prospects weaker, Greek businesses and households are experiencing growing difficulties in accessing credit. “Bank liquidity remains very tight. Banks are, at the same time, reevaluating credit risks, and are deleveraging, in part, because they are concerned about losses on loans,” Thomsen said.
But there are instruments in place to deal with these problems, with a process underway to strengthen the public backstop mechanism for providing capital for banks that cannot raise the necessary capital through market-based means, he said. Critical mass of structural reforms
Structural reforms have not yet delivered expected results, in part because agreed reforms are not being implemented. For instance, two flagship reforms—on collective bargaining and liberalizing restricted professions—have yet to deliver substantial results.
“Progress has been made on many fronts but there is still a long way to go. Greece is still far away from the critical mass of reforms needed to transform the investment climate,” Thomsen said. He noted that delays in reform implementation are one crucial reason why investor sentiment has not recovered as expected under the program, and thus why the economy was weaker than expected.
Next steps
A recent staff visit to Greece focused on program implementation and the outlook for 2012. “We continue to expect to be supporting Greece. There is no formal request yet for a new program,” Thomsen said, noting that a new program would have to be evaluated by the IMF’s management and Executive Board before any negotiations could proceed.
Enlighten me, I don't know what happened in Greece..
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: Jari, why don't you look what happened in Greece and report on that?
Posted by the lioness (Member # 17353) on :
quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: Enlighten me, I don't know what happened in Greece..
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: Jari, why don't you look what happened in Greece and report on that?
above article
Posted by -Just Call Me Jari- (Member # 14451) on :
LMAO @ this clown. Dude majority of the Immigrants in Greece a Turks and North African Berber Mulattoes. Same in France as the video clearly shows, again North Africans and Asians..lol
I mean whats wrong?? I thought they were your caucasian brothers?? Aww so now its gonna be a race war, I thought yall were the same race..LMFAO.
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: Greece.
Yep.
And all the immigrants such as blacks are now on the streets in protests.
The future of Greece is going to be very violent racial conflict. [/QB][/QUOTE]
Posted by Troll Patrol (Member # 18264) on :
quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: LMAO @ this clown. Dude majority of the Immigrants in Greece a Turks and North African Berber Mulattoes. Same in France as the video clearly shows, again North Africans and Asians..lol
I mean whats wrong?? I thought they were your caucasian brothers?? Aww so now its gonna be a race war, I thought yall were the same race..LMFAO.
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: Greece.
Yep.
And all the immigrants such as blacks are now on the streets in protests.
The future of Greece is going to be very violent racial conflict.
He has exposed himself here, on many levels. The real nature is showing.
One of the main reasons Golden Dawn has been able to expand its base is that Greece now has as many as 1 million immigrants, many of them from North Africa, Afghanistan or Bangladesh, possibly as many as half of them illegal.
The financial crisis that has cost many Greeks their jobs and forced the government to cut wages and social services has hit immigrants even harder. One result in parts of central Athens has been a rising wave of crime that some blame on immigrants. Stories are common of the elderly being robbed as they’ve gone to banks to pick up their pension checks. Immigrants have been implicated in the murder of a Greek man.
Those countries have large numbers of Black (western african) immigrants.
During the 2011 Tunisian revolution and the 2011 Libyan civil war, hundreds of thousands of Black immigrants entered Southern Europe. On top of that there were loads of non-Black immigrants from North Africa.
Ethnic cleansing in France: 54% of babies born in Paris are black
The indigenous French are a declining minority in many parts of France, in the main due to mass immigration and a higher birth rate among immigrants.
There is nothing to worry about from immigrants as long as they have a productive role in society.
Posted by -Just Call Me Jari- (Member # 14451) on :
LOL I realize critical thinking is not your strong point but Paris is a City, France is a Nation composed of many cities.
As I said majority of Immigrants in France and Europe are so called "Caucasians" Leuco Berbers, Pakistani's, Indians, Turks, etc... the same people you Spam when claiming their civilization and history, now you wanna bitch..LMFAO.
I thought you guys were Pan Aryans n ****..lol
Fraud.
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: Those countries have large numbers of Black (western african) immigrants.
During the 2011 Tunisian revolution and the 2011 Libyan civil war, hundreds of thousands of Black immigrants entered Southern Europe. On top of that there were loads of non-Black immigrants from North Africa.
Ethnic cleansing in France: 54% of babies born in Paris are black
The indigenous French are a declining minority in many parts of France, in the main due to mass immigration and a higher birth rate among immigrants.
Posted by -Just Call Me Jari- (Member # 14451) on :
BUT, BUT...I thought they were Caucasian Bretheren, Pan-Aryans and Cacaziod white race..lol
So why is Golden Dawn a Neo-Nazi group having problems with their long lost Afghan, Pakistani Brothers??
You mean to tell me all this Cacaziod stuff is just a bunch of Internet feel good bullcrap..
LOL
quote:Originally posted by Troll Patrol:
One of the main reasons Golden Dawn has been able to expand its base is that Greece now has as many as 1 million immigrants, many of them from North Africa, Afghanistan or Bangladesh, possibly as many as half of them illegal.
The financial crisis that has cost many Greeks their jobs and forced the government to cut wages and social services has hit immigrants even harder. One result in parts of central Athens has been a rising wave of crime that some blame on immigrants. Stories are common of the elderly being robbed as they’ve gone to banks to pick up their pension checks. Immigrants have been implicated in the murder of a Greek man.
quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: BUT, BUT...I thought they were Caucasian Bretheren, Pan-Aryans and Cacaziod white race..lol
So why is Golden Dawn a Neo-Nazi group having problems with their long lost Afghan, Pakistani Brothers??
You mean to tell me all this Cacaziod stuff is just a bunch of Internet feel good bullcrap..
LOL
quote:Originally posted by Troll Patrol:
One of the main reasons Golden Dawn has been able to expand its base is that Greece now has as many as 1 million immigrants, many of them from North Africa, Afghanistan or Bangladesh, possibly as many as half of them illegal.
The financial crisis that has cost many Greeks their jobs and forced the government to cut wages and social services has hit immigrants even harder. One result in parts of central Athens has been a rising wave of crime that some blame on immigrants. Stories are common of the elderly being robbed as they’ve gone to banks to pick up their pension checks. Immigrants have been implicated in the murder of a Greek man.
Revelations a neo-Nazi gang was able to commit racist murders unhindered for a decade – and Germany’s seeming indifference to the crimes – has shaken the country’s minority communities. Moises Mendoza reports.
Her comments were, in part, a response to a publishing sensation: Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (Germany Is Doing Away With Itself) by Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin. In apocalyptic terms, Sarrazin, a Social Democrat, conjured a future where Turks (around 5% of the population) compete to outnumber Germans, thereby "dumbing down" the country with their inferior gene pool. Blaming inbreeding among Turks and Kurds for "congenital disabilities", Sarrazin claimed immigrants from the Middle East are a "genetic minus" for the country. "But the subject is usually hushed up," he wrote. "Perish the thought that genetic factors could be partially responsible for the failure of parts of the Turkish populations in the German school system."
Debt crisis: as it happened, February 10, 2012 The Greek Government heads for a reshuffle as five cabinet members resign and cast doubt over the implementation of tough austerity measures required to secure a €130bn bailout package, while PM Lucas Papademos warns default would be "uncontrolled chaos".
How have they been responding to the bailout in the last few years? Because they didn't want to decrease the deficit to balance. They don't want to take responsibility, they want to keep living in a world of fantasies, lalalalala land. Utopia.
quote:Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: Those countries have large numbers of Black (western african) immigrants.
During the 2011 Tunisian revolution and the 2011 Libyan civil war, hundreds of thousands of Black immigrants entered Southern Europe. On top of that there were loads of non-Black immigrants from North Africa.
Ethnic cleansing in France: 54% of babies born in Paris are black
The indigenous French are a declining minority in many parts of France, in the main due to mass immigration and a higher birth rate among immigrants.
Once known for its large-scale emigration, Greece transitioned to a country of destination for Central and Eastern European immigrants after the fall of the Soviet Union and other communist regimes in the region. More recently, the country has become one of entry and transit for hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
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