refugees

  The meeting of the Refugees Crisis Management Mechanism chaired by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was concluded late at night on Monday, in light of the tragic event at the northern borders of Greece. During the meeting the Prime...

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is to send back hundreds of refugees who entered the country illegally from Greece, although Skopje has not made an official request yet. According to FYROM police the 700-800 refugees and migrants who crossed...

FYROM authorities arrested an undisclosed number of refugees and at least ten photojournalists who crossed into the Balkan country from Greece Monday evening.

A report released last month by the Bank of Greece had estimated that the migrant crisis may cost Greece as much as 600 million euros this year, or approximately 0.3% of its gross domestic product. Bank of Greece Director Yiannis...

A new migrant tragedy has claimed the lives of three people on the blocked Greek-FYROM border. FYROM police said three people, two men and a woman, drowned while trying to cross a river. This latest migrant tragedy comes amid reports that...

The number of refugees and migrants stranded in Greece is over 45,000 and keeps growing on a daily basis as more desperate souls end up on Greek shores but cannot continue their way to the core of Europe as...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, hailed Greece’s efforts to manage the refugee crisis in the organization’s annual report, while also expressing concern for the effects of closed borders on the well-being of...

A nationalist, anti-immigrant party has won seats in three German regional elections, a result seen as a major rebuke to Chancellor Angela Merkel's open immigration policy. The 3-year-old Alternative for Deutschland party, or AfD, won representation in the states of...

Greece has begun refugee transfers from the Greek border town of Idomeni where some 13,00 people are stuck after Balkan countries completely sealed off the migrant trail as part of an EU plan, although Germany has publicly denounced the...

The ministry of migration policy said on Sunday 44,035 refugees were in Greece’s territory, with 8,904 located on the islands of the eastern Aegean, 10,987 in the region of Attica and 12,000 stranded in Idomeni, in northern Greece. According to...