Panos Kammenos, Defense Minister and president of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), asked for the resignation of Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas for calling FYROM "Macedonia."
Mouzalas called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia "Macedonia" during a SKAI television...
As the official announcement that Turkish observers will be assigned to refugee centers on Greek islands stirred up some deep emotions among many Greeks, Syriza government officials have gone on the offensive in an apparent effort to justify the...
Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas speaking to ANT1 TV on Thursday said that his statement that Idomeni will not reopen and that Greece will be a settlement country for refugees was misinterpreted.
Mouzalas clarified that the refugees will stay at...
Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that refugees will stay 2-3 years in Greece and will help in the country's demographic problem.
Speaking on ANT1 television on Thursday, the deputy minister said that, "it is a scientific truth that migrants help...
According to reports, Alternate Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas estimated that given the current situation, if the borders in Idomeni won't reopen soon, which will lead to more than 100,000 refugees and migrants being trapped in Greece.
In a meeting on...
As the wave of migrants and refugees flocking to Europe each day gets bigger, xenophobia and racism seem to grow exponentially, thereby making a mockery of European Union’s official motto “United in Diversity.”
However, while the fear and hate displayed...
Following the Vienna meeting earlier this week between Austria and 9 Balkan states to discuss ways to tackle the migrant crisis, the governments of most of the countries that took part in the controversial meeting that caused much anger...
Greece has turned down a request by Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner to visit Athens for explanations over the recall of Greece's ambassador to Vienna.
According to an Athens Macedonia News Agency report citing diplomatic sources, the Greek side turned down...
Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that Austria will soon recognize its big mistake in taking a hostile action against Greece.
Mouzalas spoke to EurActive Greece, saying, "We think that Austria has made a very significant, very serious mistake, which...
Greece's Ambassador to Vienna, Chrysoula Aleiferi, has been recalled to Athens by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias.
Aleiferi is being called back to Athens, two days after the approach that the Foreign Ministry made, due to the meeting that took place...
