migrants

Italy's coast guard said it coordinated the rescue of more than 4,200 migrants off Libya’s coast while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea since Friday. In some of the most intense Mediterranean migrant traffic of the year, a total of...

A record number of 758 irregular migrants and refugees arrived in the last 24 hours on the island of Mytilene, in the northeastern Aegean, the Greek Coast Guard said, placing immense pressure on the island’s infrastructure. In a letter sent to...

"Almost 1,200 migrants - some crammed onto overcrowded inflatable dinghies - have been picked up by Greek authorities in the eastern Aegean Sea in the past two days," correspondents for the British newspaper Daily Mail Jenny Stanton and Mario Ledwith mentioned in their...

European Union countries are locked in an increasingly bitter battle over proposals to set quotas for accepting asylum seekers and other migrants fleeing Africa and the Middle East. What has become of European solidarity in handling the Mediterranean migrant...

Reuters revealed that the European Commission is planning to propose a plan for the relocation of 40,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in Greece and Italy over the last years to various countries across Europe. The reason behind the proposal is...

A coast guard patrol boat and a private vessel rescued 38 migrants and refugees adrift at sea near the Ionian island of Antipaxi on Tuesday. The refugees were taken to the harbour of Gai on the larger nearby island...

A ship with about 200 irregular migrants on board which was located earlier on Tuesday off the coast of Chania in Crete, Greece, was led by the Coast Guard to the port of Palaiohora. According to a local mayor, among...

Visiting Mytilene, the main town on the island of Lesvos, Greek Migration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou underlined that a way must be found to "evacuate" the island of the hordes of migrants and refugees arriving there on a daily...

Earlier today, BBC's international correspondent Murad Shishani presented a video capturing the agonizing daily efforts of the Greek coastguards to rescue migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea in search of a better life for themselves and their families. The video shows a small...

The Greek coalition government is currently working on new healthcare policies to expand free and subsidized health coverage. According to a ministerial decision uninsured Greeks and migrants residing legally in Greece who were denied healthcare in the past due to...