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European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Friday warned that EU-Turkey deal must be kept, otherwise the neighboring country would unleash waves of migrants to Greece. Avramopoulos spoke with President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos stressing that the European Union-Ankara...

Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas on Friday said that refugees will not be transferred from the islands to the mainland yet because that would jeopardize the Turkey-European Union agreement. Mouzalas spoke in parliament in the aftermath of the gas explosion...

Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas made a plea to the residents of the northern Aegean islands to contribute to the construction of reception centers for the migrants and refugees otherwise the agreement between EU and Turkey will be at stake. "We will not...

Only migrants and refugees who are likely to be granted asylum can be moved from the islands to Greece's mainland, said government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. The statement came after violent riots broke out on Chios island, where part of the...

Deputy Migration Policy Minister Ioannis Balafas said the government wants to close the camp in Souda on the Greek island of Chios and transfer refugees and migrants in a new camp outside the town. “We do not want to create...

More fires broke out and new violent fights took place for the second night in a row at the Souda migrant camp on Chios island on Thursday night. The incidents started when two petrol bombs were hurled inside the camp...

Violent, destructive riots that erupted late on Wednesday night at the Souda migrant camp on Chios island resulted in several arrests of migrants. According to local residents who spoke on ERT Aegean television station, the incident started around 11:00 pm...

Athens is planning to build another migrant camp on Chios island in an order to tackle the overcrowding of reception facilities on the five Aegean islands receiving the majority of the flow from Turkey. In an emergency meeting chaired by...

The refugee and migrant flows from Turkey to Greece continue unabated with the number of trapped foreigners on Greek islands at 15,714 people. Over the last 20 days, there were 2,228 refugees and migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey,...

Turkish authorities on Tuesday released the five Greek nationals and one Greek-American detained while fishing near the islet Paspargos, in waters between Chios and the Turkish coast, on board the vessel "Mia." The six men were taken to Cesme on...