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World Refugee Day Finds Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers Likely to Stay in Greece Indefinitely

The culmination of the refugee crisis in the summer of 2015 has left its mark on Greece, as tens of thousands asylum seekers seem very likely to stay in the country indefinitely, if not permanently. Since 2015, 850,000 people arrived...

Refugee Relocation Progressing at Snail's Pace: Just 3% of Target Met

The European Commission has not met the target it set two months ago for the relocation of 20,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy by mid-May. Instead, only 553 refugees -- just 3 percent -- have been transported from...

Greek Ambassador Returns to Vienna After Spat Over Refugees

The Greek ambassador returned to Austria on Wednesday, putting an official end to an acrimonious argument that began after the shut-down of the Balkan route to central Europe for migrants. Austria was the country that organized the closing of the...

Bulgaria Set to Raise Fence on Border with Greece

Bulgaria is set to build a razor-wire fence along its southern border with Greece to stop possible migrant flows, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Friday. "The major threat that I see at the moment is from the Greek border,...

Greek PM Tsipras Calls on Refugees to Leave FYROM Border

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appealed to refugees to leave the Greece-FYROM border and move to hospitality centers because the Balkan route will not reopen. With 12,000 refugees and migrants gathered at Idomeni -- in the neutral zone between Greece...

Greece Reacts at European Council Chief's Comment on Refugee Issue

The Greek government reacted to the comment by European Council President Donald Tusk that the closing of the Balkan route for refugees was a joint decision of the European Union 28. The European official posted another comment on twitter where...

Greece Is Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place Over Refugee Crisis

Since the start of the biggest displacement crisis in the post-war era, with millions of refugees from war-torn regions in the Middle East but also economic migrants from north and west Africa trying to reach Europe to start new...