Syrians

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...

The constant influx of migrants and refugees to the East Aegean Greek island of Lesvos has been well documented throughout the past four months. The island saw a massive exodus of some of these migrants and refugees during this past week, as...

Two boats sank after leaving the southwest coast of Turkey, traveling for the Greek island of Kos and according to Turkey’s Dogan news agency at least 11 migrants believed to be Syrians drowned during the incidents. The agency reported that...

Thousands of migrants rode trains and buses and walked through FYROM and Serbia on Sunday in an effort to get to European Union member Hungary, where authorities are building a razor-wire fence to keep them from entering. The migrants, mostly...

Early Sunday morning, 321 Syrian migrants on the Greek island of Kos boarded the Greek passenger ship that will house refugees currently on the Dodecanese island. Thge island has received 7,000 migrants and refugees this past week. 2,000-2,500 Syrian refugees are scheduled to live in the Eleftherios...

The number of cargo trucks leaving Greece for other European countries, and especially for Italy through the port of Patras, was significantly reduced after capital controls were imposed on Greek banks last month. As a result, a major decrease was...

The European Union recently proposed a plan to help Greece and Italy with the thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean sea. These plans will be watered down during the EU Interior Ministers meeting which will take place on Tuesday,...

On Sunday, December 15, the Greek authorities arrested four Pakistanis that are members of a criminal organisation. According to the Greek Police, the organisation is specialised on seizing immigrants, smuggling them and keeping them captive until a relative would...

At the same time the country is cracking down on illegal immigrants and assaults against them are continuing, the Greek government said it would halt deportation of immigrants from Syria who entered the country illegally after human rights groups...