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04-02-2016, 06:19 PM
Airport to **where: Thousands of migrants stranded in abandoned Athens terminal
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ATHENS - It's been 15 years since the last plane took off from the Greek (http://www.france24.com/en/tag/greece/) capital's former international airport, which stretches along the Aegean Sea and lies a short drive south of the city centre.*
If things had gone according to plan, Ellinikon (also k**wn as Hellinikon) might have become Athens' equivalent of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: a sprawling communal area where families, cyclists, skaters and kite-flyers whiz along the disused runways and revel in unkempt meadows that stretch out to the horizon.
But in crisis-hit Greece (http://www.france24.com/en/20150611-hercules-hemingway-sisyphus-kafka-greece-debt-tragedy), **thing has gone according to plan. And the global financial collapse of 2008 sent Greece into eco**mic purgatory and ended hopes for the new metropolitan park.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/02/refugees-stranded-airport-greece/)
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ATHENS - It's been 15 years since the last plane took off from the Greek (http://www.france24.com/en/tag/greece/) capital's former international airport, which stretches along the Aegean Sea and lies a short drive south of the city centre.*
If things had gone according to plan, Ellinikon (also k**wn as Hellinikon) might have become Athens' equivalent of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: a sprawling communal area where families, cyclists, skaters and kite-flyers whiz along the disused runways and revel in unkempt meadows that stretch out to the horizon.
But in crisis-hit Greece (http://www.france24.com/en/20150611-hercules-hemingway-sisyphus-kafka-greece-debt-tragedy), **thing has gone according to plan. And the global financial collapse of 2008 sent Greece into eco**mic purgatory and ended hopes for the new metropolitan park.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/02/refugees-stranded-airport-greece/)
More about Greece Refugees (http://mashable.com/category/greece-refugees/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/a0CC0AzGM2I