migrants

Members of a solidarity organization called “Koinoniki Kouzina” (Social Kitchen) decided to cook a meal at Omonoia Square in downtown Athens and eat along with the migrants who reside in the area. Hunger has no color or ethnicity as humanity...

Greece's Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has earlier today decorated an army sergeant of the Hellenic Army, whose photos rescuing a young migrant from Eritrea following a deadly shipwreck on the island of Rhodes last week made headlines across the globe. Sergeant Antonis Deligiorgis was...

An operation to rescue 69 undocumented migrants that were trapped on an islet in Evros river, was completed successfully on Saturday. Greek Police were informed on Thursday that a group of people were trapped on an islet and their...

A boatload of 93 illegal migrants plus three suspected traffickers rescued on Thursday while adrift in a wooden craft near Rafina, Greece, will be temporarily housed in an indoor basketball court, authorities announced. According to information from Greek Coast Guard...

European Union member-states' leaders are considering ways to double the financial sources they could use in order to prevent tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea and save the lives of thousands of migrants who are trying to reach Europe. Moreover,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras telephoned Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Sunday evening and expressed his condolences for the hundreds of migrants and refugees feared dead after the latest sinking of a vessel carrying migrants south of...

A woman from Cameroon who gave birth to twins inside a sinking boat carrying illegal migrants to Greece was transferred to an Athens hospital for precautionary reasons. The woman was among 36 migrants in a dinghy boat rescued by the...

New waves of refugees and illegal migrants are flooding Greece on a daily basis. The data released by the North Aegean Prefecture are alarming. Prefect Christianna Kalogirou said that in the last 57 days, Greece has received 75% of the total...

Greek Deputy Migration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou received Athens mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Friday and asked for the municipality's assistance in providing food and shelter to refugees and migrants entering Greece. They both agreed on the need for exemplary cooperation to deal...

Greek Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis appeared highly critical of the northern European countries' migration policy, accusing them of turning Greece "into a theater of mass transit for hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria." As the debate over Greece's moves...