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Hundreds of refugees, migrants and supporters gathered on Saturday on Lesvos to protest against the European Union-Turkey deal that calls for the return of asylum seekers in Greece back to Turkey. The rally was in celebration of the international day...

The March 2016 Turkey-European Union deal has helped in reducing the migrant flow to Greece, but the number of pending asylum applications remains large. According to the Greek asylum service, 2,627 migrants and refugees crossed the eastern Aegean from Turkey and...

Marking the one year anniversary of the EU-Turkey migration deal, several non-governmental organizations (NPOs) have released a joint report claiming that the deal has turned Greece into "a laboratory" for implementing new EU policies, while at the same time essentially "eroding" the...

There was a percentage increase of 339% in the number of first-time asylum applicants in Greece in 2016, which rose to 49,875 in 2016 from 11,370 in 2015, according to figures released by Eurostat on Thursday. On the basis of...

The NPO Save the Children has released statements on Thursday saying that the conditions under which the children in migrant reception centers in Greece are living is driving them to self-inflicting harm on themselves and using drugs to cope...

The European Union has put the "Dublin Treaty" back into effect and is to start sending asylum seekers back to Greece, according to Deutsche Welle. "Fresh" asylum seekers arriving to Europe via Greece can once again be sent back to...

On Wednesday the NPO Human Rights Watch (HRW) made statements criticizing the EU-Turkey deal, blaming it for the entrapment of migrants on the Greek Aegean islands known as "hotspots." "The EU-Turkey deal has trapped thousands of people in abysmal conditions...

The Greek Coast Guard rescued 113 migrants on Tuesday, from a Maltese-flagged freighter Gagliarda that was sailing adrift 32 miles west of the Ionian island of Paxi and had issued a distress signal. One of the migrants on the vessel...

The mayors of five Aegean islands are in Brussels invited by European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos. The mayors of the islands of Lesvos Spyros Galinos, Samos Michalis Angelopoulos, Chios Manolis Vournous, Leros Michalis Kollias and Kos Giorgos Kyritsis will...

The trauma of a perilous boat journey to Greece still fresh in her mind, Tolay performed a ritual she'd felt too unsafe to undertake for the previous three months. "When I put on my makeup, I was crying," Tolay, said...