Immigration

Europe's continuing economic problems, which have especially hard hit countries such as Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain, has resulted not only in record unemployment but many young and skilled people and professionals fleeing to other countries for a new...

Police in Venice have discovered an undocumented five-year-old Afghan boy hidden in the suitcase of a man getting off a ferry from Greece, an official said Wednesday. (AFP) - Ali Shaker, 35, of Afghanistan, told police he was a family...

More and more Greeks are moving to neighboring Balkan countries to take advantage of cheaper heating oil with big tax hikes in Greece further pushing up the cost for them at home. Greeks living in the north, particularly Macedonians...

ATHENS - Greek Communist Party Aleka Papariga has denounced the roundup of 6,000 immigrants, under the code name Xenios Zeus, as inhuman and violating their human rights. Papariga stated that, “The Greek police forces are hiding an alternative reality...

The Greek office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is struggling to handle a barrage of applications from undocumented immigrants who want to be included in its repatriation scheme, with 6,000 requests lodged so far this year --...

While crisis makes the situation in Greece even worse, more and more young Greeks pack their suitcases and head for other European or non-states, in order to search for a job. Greeks in Finland comment on the current situation in...

Amnesty International has described as "deeply alarming" the Greek government's move to round up and detain irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including those suspected of carrying infectious diseases such as HIV. Those considered vulnerable to such diseases, based on their country...

Like thousands of his compatriots, Christoforos, was forced to immigrate and move to the UK for a better[...]

Athens has become a kind of purgatory for migrants entering Europe – a cramped, violent and sweltering waiting room that one may never get to leave.

9SIbeSkJNNM From the migrant exit point in Igoumenitsa, I made my way to Evros, the largest entry point for illegal immigration into Greece. I drove ten hours along the newly constructed Egnatia highway to Orestiada, a border town in the...