Yiannis Mouzalas

"Greece has taken on more weight than it can handle and I don't think this is fair," said famous actress Susan Sarandon who spent Christmas at a refugee camp in Athens, Greece. Sarandon along with Greek Deputy Immigration Policy Minister...

  The Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Immigration Yiannis Mouzalas inspected the progress of the reception identification centers  (hotspots) in Chios and Leros.     Tsipras stressed that it's Europe's turn to honor its commitments. He stated...

Greek Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas announced on Tuesday that migrants and refugees will be housed at the hockey stadium in the area of Ellinko, in the southern suburbs of Attica, for the next three months. Migrants and refugees will...

The mayors of Elliniko-Argyroupoli, Palaio Faliro, Alimos and Glyfada have reacted strongly to the setting of migrant camps in their municipalities. Respective mayors Yiannis Konstantatos, Dionysis Chadzidakis, Andreas Kondylis and Giorgos Papanikolaou sent a letter to Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis...

Greek authorities finished transferring about 2,300 migrants from the Greece-FYROM border to a former Olympic sports arena early Thursday morning. Greek police used 45 buses to transfer a total of 2,300 migrants, mostly from Morocco, Iran and Soudan, from the...

Greek police have started the operation to remove protesting migrants who block the railway line across the Greece-FYROM border. About 1,200 are left stranded at the crossing point near Idomeni village. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is denying entry...

The European Commission is to send 1,000 Frontex staff in order to control Greek borders more efficiently, according to a Proto Thema report. The aim of the specialized Frontex staff is to block persons suspected of being linked with jihadist...

The European Commission put a temporary stop to scenarios about Greece being suspended from the Schengen Agreement, after a meeting of European justice ministers in Brussels on Friday. The threat to Greece, and to the future of the border-free zone,...

The situation in Idomeni-Greece is going from bad to worse. The Greek economy is beset by the blocking of the railway line and the closure of borders by FYROM. The situation has reached an impasse, and the matter was...

Greek Alternate Minister for Migration Affairs Yiannis Mouzalas revealed that the government is planning to move refugees and migrants stranded at the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to Athens. In recent weeks, FYROM has adopted a...