asylum seekers

To date there are over 60,000 migrants stranded in Greece as bordering EU countries have closed their borders and in efforts to help provide shelter for asylum seekers, the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has initiated a program in which...

European Union member states are to be sending migrants and refugees back to Greece beginning in mid-March, the European Commission announced on Thursday. The decision was taken so that the EU restores its migration policies which collapsed under a mass...

Over this past weekend the numbers of refugees being hosted on the five Greek islands in the Aegean known as "hotspots" rose above 15,000, according to the latest government data. The data shows that the island of Lesvos is currently...

Some 43 refugees were rescued late Monday by a Frontex patrol vessel in the sea region southeast of Samos island amidst strong winds and difficult sea. A total of 273 migrants and refugees arrived on the Greek islands in the last four days...

The European Commission is calling upon Greece to implement a series of actions on refugees and migrants, such as the so-called Dublin Regulation by December. The agreement, currently under review, states that migrants who have traveled to other nations...

As migrant camps grow more overcrowded on the Greek island of Chios, early Monday morning some young migrants set their mattresses and other bedding on fire in a protest of the living conditions and delays in the asylum seeking...

Since FYROM closed their borders to migrants this past spring and bottlenecked tens of thousands of people in Greece the Greece-FYROM border has seen a decline in the amount of migrants trying to enter FYROM from Greece. Also the dismantling...

There was a spike in the numbers of new asylum seekers arriving in Greece with 51 new arrivals in the last 24 hours bringing the number of refugees and immigrants trapped on the island of Mytilene, Lesvos, to 4,964...

On Thursday Alternate Minister for Migration Policy, Yiannis Mouzalas, shared the latest strategic plans from the Greek government to try to ease the overcrowded migrant camps around the country by building four refugee camps on Crete. While speaking at a...

On Wednesday the Czech Republic announced in a report that they will be resettling 10 asylum seekers from Greece, as part of the agreement that all EU countries have undertaken. The agreement deals with the redistribution and resettlement of migrants...