Evros

A teenage Syrian refugee, aged 16, has been lightly injured after being shot by an unknown assailant while trying to illegally re-enter Turkey, from which he had entered Greece earlier. The young refugee and an older Iraqi, aged 21,...

The village of Poros, Evros, was declared 2016 European Stork Village by the EuroNatur Foundation. The title came after a nomination by representatives of the European Agency for the environmental protection at a special ceremony held in Poros. The prize...

Protesting Greek farmers will block the main national highway until 8 pm on Monday at Tempi, in Thessaly, central Greece, and decided to extend roadblocks. Farmers unions convened on Monday and decided on further actions and extending roadblocks at Tempi...

The village of Poros in Feres, northern Greece was officially declared as “the European village of storks” for the year 2016. This is considered to be a unique distinction throughout Greece and Europe, since the village plays an important...

More than 1,000 refugees arrived at Greece's biggest port of Piraeus near Athens yesterday (January 13) as the influx of refugees fleeing conflict zones for Europe continued unabated into the winter months. From Greece, some of the migrants take the...

Turkey is committing to proceed as agreed with what has been decided with the European Union to address the refugee crisis, the country’s ambassador to Greece Kerim Uras said on Wednesday during a press conference, noting that there is...

A 2-year-old boy from Syria was found wandering on his own at the borders of Evros-Greece. It is unknown how he ended up there or how he got lost from his parents but for the time being he has...

A new Aegean Sea tragedy occurred on Thursday in the sea area 250 meters off the coast of Kos island where the coast guard recovered the bodies of two refugee children. It was the early hours of Thursday when a...

The Greek government is facing increasing pressure to take down the fence along its land border with Turkey in the Evros region in order to stop refugees from making the deadly journey to Europe via the Aegean Sea. Citizen Protection...

"Our borders are safe," stated Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday after attending the final phase of the military exercise "Parmenion 2015" at the Evros region, near the Turkey and Bulgaria borders. Tsipras, who was wearing a Hellenic Airforce flight...