migrant crisis

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss the refugee crisis very soon. This is according to German government deputy spokesperson; Georg Streiter though he did not provide a date or...

The belief that Greece is "not alone in the management of the refugee flows"  was highlighted today by the European Commission representative, Natasha Bertro. She was called upon to comment on if the European Commission believes Greece should be left...

Twelve people were arrested on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos by police as suspected members of a criminal gang that supplied forged travel documents to third country nationals landing on several Greek islands from Turkey amid the ongoing...

Greek authorities have been struggling to contain the refugee crisis that started a few months ago, when the flow of refugees and migrants coming from the Turkish coast increased significantly. However, monitoring the large number of people who come...

FYROM President Georgi Ivanov stated that his country will follow the practice of other European countries, by separating war refugees from economic migrants. “The differences between us regarding the name of our country should not be an excuse for the...

Amid instability and high security alerts throughout the European continent, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann called for the European Union to buttress the protection of its own borders, during a joint press conference on Thursday in Berlin. Since...

With the Aegean Sea having been the main gateway for the 820,000 migrants and refugees that have entered Europe this year, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu proclaimed that the two countries will cooperate to...

It was November 14, 2015 that news broke out that one (if not two) of the assailants in the Paris attacks had passed through Greece, as a "refugee" using a Syrian passport. The Paris attacks, tragically, left 129 people killed and...

More than 6,500 refugees arrived on Sunday at Piraeus port from the islands of Mytilene, Chios and Samos, Greece. "El. Venizelos" and "Blue Star 1" carried 3,657 refugees and two more ferries, "Nisos Rhodos" and "Ariadni", carried another 2,918 refugees. (source:...

A surprising incident took place on the Greek island of Lesvos. Greek Orthodox Christians and Muslims gathered in order to pray together for the refugees’ struggle. A memorial service was organized on the island Wednesday, November 4, in memory of...