Greece

Seventeen out of the 38 migrants and refugees who arrived on the shores of the Plomari area on the Greek island of Lesvos on August 4 were found to be infected by the coronavirus  and have been put in...

The love story between Roukia and Mohammed, both Kurdish refugees from Syria, provides hope in the bitterness that looms over the refugee crisis. The life of Roukia and Mohammed resembles a fairytale. From escaping death in Afrin, Syria till Thursday...

Heavy rain that fell in Lesvos overnight has caused further landslides in the municipality of Plomari, local authorities reported on Sunday. In addition to sections of the road network that have sustained damage, there are also reports that an old,...

Between December 1-17, a total of 1,650 refugees and migrants; all members of vulnerable groups, departed from the island of Lesvos and have gone to refugee/asylum seeker facilities in Athens, and other areas of mainland Greece. According to Migration Ministry...

Greek authorities transferred more than 250 refugees and migrants of vulnerable groups from Lesvos to Piraeus, on Wednesday. Among the group that boarded a ferry were families with children, women who are alone, the elderly, and people with disabilities. The move...

Professional and trade organisations on the Aegean islands of Lesvos and Limnos have declared a general strike by island businesses next Wednesday to demand the continuation of lower VAT rates for the islands, which are set to be aligned...

  Greek Police were called in the early hours of Monday morning, to quell a riot that broke out at the Moria refugee processing center on Lesvos. Reports suggested the riot was mostly restricted to the area of the massively overcrowded...

Authorities on the island of Lesvos have called a strike and are urging residents to take part in anti-government protests, to press for a change in European Union policy of containment of refugees and migrants on Greece’s islands. In a...

The Lesvos municipal council demands that Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas fulfills his commitments; while the Chios municipality prepares to proceed with legal actions against him over the migrant issue. More than 8,000 refugees and migrants are stranded in the...

In a desperate appeal to the Greek government, the mayor of Lesvos calls for immediate measures to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the Aegean island. In a letter addressed to the Minister of Migration Policy, Yiannis Mouzalas, Mayor...

Having received an official recognition by a Greek county court of a right to receive a civil marriage license, two Syrian refugees were married in Lesvos island among friends and supporters of their cause. Khaled, a Syrian refugee, and Noor,...

It has been announced that the ferry company of Turkey’s İzmir Metropolitan Municipality has initiated a new route to the Greek island of Lesvos that their catamarans will traverse starting in May of 2017. According to Thrasos Kalogridis, the head...

Hundreds of citizens of Moria camp as well as those of other regions north of Lesvos (Mytilene) have been protesting around the island, at the municipality, the North Aegean Periphery and the General Secretariat of the Aegean and Island...

There was a spike in the numbers of new asylum seekers arriving in Greece with 51 new arrivals in the last 24 hours bringing the number of refugees and immigrants trapped on the island of Mytilene, Lesvos, to 4,964...

Greek authorities started examining asylum applications at Moria’s hotspot on the island of Lesvos, adding that almost all refugees and migrants who arrived on the island after March 20 have submitted applications, police said. Speaking to public broadcaster ERT, Brigadier...