migrants

Legal residence in Greece of one parent for at least five years before a child's birth and the enrollment of that child in first grade during the citizenship application year are the main requirements for immigrant children to acquire...

Greek Police said on Saturday they are continuing an investigation to dismantle an international migrant-trafficking ring, following the arrests of two Greek nationals aged 54 and 57, two Italians aged 55 and 37 and a Turk aged 43 for allegedly...

The number of undocumented migrants located on Thursday on various parts of the small island of Gavdos, south of Crete, Greece , is 140, according to police from Chania on the nearby island of Crete. According to sources, the migrants...

The number of undocumented migrants who have entered Greece by sea through various means amounted to 10,445 people in the first quarter of 2015 (January, February, March) compared to 2,863 people in the same period last year, according to...

On Wednesday morning, the Greek coast guard located and rescued 207 illegal migrants in seas around the eastern Aegean islands, in four separate operations. The first case concerned 95 illegal migrants in two inflatable dinghies sighted near a marina on the island of...

In the weak of Greek officials' warning to Brussels yesterday that "consistent" attempts by various European officials and media to spread division among the SYRIZA-led coalition government, formed with the participation of right wing Independent Greeks (ANEL), may lead to...

Hundreds of migrants have packed themselves in an area that is meant to host only 35 people. There are 236 people heaped in the Kos Police Department, which is housed in an old Italian building dating back to the...

Film director Panos Koutras was the big winner on Monday’s Greek Film Academy Awards. However, Koutras did not accept any of his awards, in protest of the Greek law that doesn't grant Greek citizenship to children of migrants in Greece. After the announcement that his...

How racist are Greek people? How do they feel about migrants? Action Aid, an international non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide, carried out a social experiment in Athens to determine Greek people’s...

Greek and European authorities announced on Tuesday that a migrant-trafficking ring bringing mainly Syrian irregular migrants to Greece via Turkey had been uncovered with the assistance and support of Europol, leading to 16 arrests. Based on their investigation,...