refugee crisis

Mytilene Mayor Spyros Galinos thought his problems were solved when a check for 75 million U.S. dollars arrived in the post, to help the municipality cope with the tide of refugees arriving on the island. Speaking to the ANA-MPA on...

The number of refugees crowding the port of Mytilene on Lesvos Island, Greece has risen dramatically again, as food delivery has stopped at the first reception center in Moria with refugees moving to the port to secure a meal, according to...

Amid the recurring phenomena of shipwrecks and rescue operations in the Aegean Sea, a different story has emerged in Lesvos. A Syrian couple making the long a journey from Syria into Europe, took with them their eight month-old twin children. According to...

Khaldoun is a Syrian refugee from Damascus who came to Greece searching for a better future, a route many of his compatriots chose to finally reach Northern Europe. They have to walk for miles crossing borders to Turkey and then...

The Greek Coast Guard conducted a rescue operation off the coast of the South East Aegean island of Rhodes after a boat carrying 70 migrants and refugees capsized on Monday, the Associated Press reports. None of the passengers were reported injured. The...

By Charlotte Taylor* Across Europe, a debate is raging about how to describe the thousands of people escaping war and turmoil in their own countries and making the journey to safer places. Are they refugees or migrants? The question is important:...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos received visiting European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, on Friday. Avramopoulos is currently in Athens for meetings with European officials on the migration and refugee crisis. "The European Union's...

During the second quarter of 2015 (from April to June 2015), 213,200 first time asylum seekers applied for protection in the European Union (EU), up by 15 pct compared with the first quarter of 2015 and by 85 pct...

Greek Alternate Migration Policy Minister Giannis Mouzalas announced that the Greek government will create two additional migrant reception and registration centres in Greece, Kathimerini newspaper reports. One of the alleged centres will be in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The other will be at...

The European Commission plans to provide Greece with the 30 million euros for the country's efforts to deal with the ongoing refugee crisis. European Commission spokesperson Margaritis Shinas said that the Greek Interior Minister submitted all the necessary documents for...