refugee crisis

The Greek government launched an operation on Thursday to move migrants away from the Victoria Square in the center of Athens to a closed facility, in order to protect them from the increasingly inclement weather conditions and to relieve...

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis discussed the potential for a new reception center in Athens, while also during an interview with SKAI. Kaminis warned that the Victoria Square in the center of Athens must not become a refugee settlement again. Thousands...

Two refugees, a young child and a woman lost their lives when the boat carrying them from the Turkish coast to Greece capsized on Wednesday morning, September 30th, off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. Hellenic coast guard...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN on Tuesday, September 30. During the customary photo - op for the meting Ban Ki-moon said to Tsipras that he was surprised by...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sunday afternoon in the context of the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda. In his first United Nations General Assembly appearance, the recently reelected Greek prime minister, questioned...

Greece 's response to the refugee crisis will partly depend on Europe making progress with plans for the relocation of refugees, Alternate Minister for Migration Yiannis Mouzalas said in an interview with the newspaper "Avghi" on Sunday. "We are not...

Seventeen migrants drowned Sunday when their boat capsized near the Turkish coast shortly after departing for the Greek island of Kos, the Anadolu news agency reported, citing the governor of the Turkish province of Mugla. Coast guard workers rescued 20...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed bilateral relations, regional developments, and the refugee crisis in a telephone conversation on Friday evening. Putin congratulated Tsipras on his electoral victory, but stressed issues relating to the upcoming...

While the route of migrants and refugees hoping to reach Germany, France and other European countries further in the geographical centre and north of the continent has been well documented, new arrivals in Greece are also being left sleeping in the...

The refugee crisis that Europe is engulfed in shows no signs of slowing down as the latest numbers show. After the 2,500 people that arrived on the Greek East Aegean island of Lesvos between Tuesday and Thursday, Reuters reports that 24...