migrant crisis

European trade unions are urging new rules for asylum rights be introduced to ensure the migrants and refugees are "evenhandedly" accepted among EU member states. Delegates Wednesday at the congress of the European Trade Union Confederation in Paris, in a...

Two refugees, a young child and a woman lost their lives when the boat carrying them from the Turkish coast to Greece capsized on Wednesday morning, September 30th, off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. Hellenic coast guard...

Greece 's response to the refugee crisis will partly depend on Europe making progress with plans for the relocation of refugees, Alternate Minister for Migration Yiannis Mouzalas said in an interview with the newspaper "Avghi" on Sunday. "We are not...

Seventeen migrants drowned Sunday when their boat capsized near the Turkish coast shortly after departing for the Greek island of Kos, the Anadolu news agency reported, citing the governor of the Turkish province of Mugla. Coast guard workers rescued 20...

While the route of migrants and refugees hoping to reach Germany, France and other European countries further in the geographical centre and north of the continent has been well documented, new arrivals in Greece are also being left sleeping in the...

The refugee crisis that Europe is engulfed in shows no signs of slowing down as the latest numbers show. After the 2,500 people that arrived on the Greek East Aegean island of Lesvos between Tuesday and Thursday, Reuters reports that 24...

Mytilene Mayor Spyros Galinos thought his problems were solved when a check for 75 million U.S. dollars arrived in the post, to help the municipality cope with the tide of refugees arriving on the island. Speaking to the ANA-MPA on...

The number of refugees crowding the port of Mytilene on Lesvos Island, Greece has risen dramatically again, as food delivery has stopped at the first reception center in Moria with refugees moving to the port to secure a meal, according to...

Amid the recurring phenomena of shipwrecks and rescue operations in the Aegean Sea, a different story has emerged in Lesvos. A Syrian couple making the long a journey from Syria into Europe, took with them their eight month-old twin children. According to...

Khaldoun is a Syrian refugee from Damascus who came to Greece searching for a better future, a route many of his compatriots chose to finally reach Northern Europe. They have to walk for miles crossing borders to Turkey and then...