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The European Commission on Monday gave over €45 million ($52 million) to Greece and Spain to deal with migration issues. Monday's sums come shortly after Greece also struck a bilateral deal with Germany last week on taking back some migrants. That bilateral...

Alexis Tsipras met Chancellor Angela Merkel in Brussels on Friday on the sidelines of an EU summit to hammer out a bilateral deal on irregular migration affecting Greece and Germany. Merkel told reporters she had struck bilateral deals with Spain and...

Mytilene, the capital and port of the island of Lesvos, has shut down in protest against the visit of Greece's prime minister, Alexis Tsipras. Shops and local services have pulled down their shutters as professional and trade organizations prepare to...

Greece's Minister of Migration Policy has said ongoing tensions with Turkey "creates problems" on managing migration flows, as the authorities reveal hundreds of people were detained for crossing the Evros River since the weekend. Dimitris Vitsas was speaking on Greek radio...

New data from the EU's border protection agency claim 7,900 migrants entered Europe through the Eastern Mediterranean route in the first quarter of 2018 -- 30 percent more than in the same period of 2017. FRONTEX, in a new report,...

Turkey plans to leverage its millions of Syrian refugees for money and other concessions at a summit in Europe next week as Greece faces criticism for its implementation of the migrant deal signed with Ankara in March 2016. A report...

Ukraine's foreign ministry has denied reports that several of its nationals were handed down life sentences in Greek courts after being convicted of people smuggling. A foreign ministry official, Serhiy Pohoreltsev, told reporters in Kiev on Thursday that although 120 Ukrainian...

A Greek cabinet minister has claimed migration flows into the country have doubled since August last year. Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said Greek islands can experience 160 to 180 arrivals a day when weather conditions are good. "This has again created...

  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday the migration problem is a European and international issue and not the concern of Italy and Greece alone. "It is necessary to face this problem not as a Mediterranean problem that has to...

Greece's government has been accused of failing to honor a commitment to house refugee and migrant children without families in special shelters. Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said a pledge by Athens to make sure no children were being...