refugee crisis

In an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood by her policies on the refugee crisis in 2015 and said that it was unfair that Greece and Italy were left on their...

The European Commission announced on Thursday a new emergency support package for Greece to help the country tackle the refugee crisis. The support of 209 million euros will be used to help refugees stranded in the country rent homes and pay...

The European Union must "reach the limits of its laws" in order to assist work to restore quake-stricken Vrisa and another 12 settlements on the island of Lesvos, President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Sunday while...

This week, Christos Stylianides, a spokesman for European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management announced that the European Union (EU) has suspended funding to a non-government organization (NGO) that provides aid for refugees due to allegations of sexual...

An exhibit called Uno y Mil Gernikas in Argentina showing the innocent victims of war is on display at the Museo de la Ciudad, Rosario’s City Museum. Although the exhibition focuses on 80th anniversary of Gernika’s bombing, it also displays images...

An agreement to house and host refugees on Crete in the coming days was signed by Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas, the UNHCR and local authorities in Heraklion on Tuesday. The program to house asylum seekers in 125 apartments in Crete...

Although progress has been made in the management of the refugee crisis in Greece, significant challenges related to reception, registration and asylum processing remain, the UN Refugee Agency said on Monday and proposed eight steps to address the “serious...

Meeting Greece's prime minister in the Vatican on Friday, Pope Francis thanked Alexis Tsipras for all that he has done to support society's poor and weak. In a brief conversation with Tsipras, Pope Francis spoke about his own but...

The European Commission on Tuesday extended for a year a pilot program allowing Turkish visitors to get a short-term visa upon arrival at the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean, in an attempt to help boost local tourism which has...

Challenging the Lausanne Treaty is like challenging the borders of Greece and the European Union, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said in Lisbon. Pavlopoulos who is paying an official visit to Portugal made these statements at the official dinner hosted in...