Greece

Idomeni and Victoria square are the two main areas that the European Union is focusing on and drawing its conclusions regarding Greece's bad management of the refugee and migrant issue, according to the German Press. The photo depicting refugees trying to tear...

Two refugees attempted to hang themselves from trees in Victoria Square, in Athens. Fortunately, both men are well in their health, as police officers and an ambulance rushed to the spot in order to provide them with medical assistance. The...

The Greek government launched an operation on Thursday to move migrants away from the Victoria Square in the center of Athens to a closed facility, in order to protect them from the increasingly inclement weather conditions and to relieve...

For thousands of migrants coming to Greece from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Victoria Square in central Athens, will be their home until they find money and papers to start their journey to Northern Europe. The refugees that have flooded the...

In a bid to revive life into the city, Athens is going to allow chairs, tables and umbrellas in squares to help restaurants and businesses get customers and improve the aesthetics of the areas. That includes Omonia, a haven for...

An explosion at a coffee shop in central Athens on Thursday morning left one dead and seven injured. The incident took place at 9:20 am at a Victoria Square coffee shop at Victoria Square, next to the subway station. A...

Now that borders with Greece are closing one after another, and as more refugees and migrants are being trapped in the country despite the fact that the EU-Turkey agreement has become effective for several days now, one "business sector"...

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said he is ready to provide a second accommodation center for refugees under the condition that there is an end to the awful state of affairs around Victoria Square, a public park in a grubby...

People smugglers offer stranded Afghan migrants to help them cross to Europe through Albania, asking for 3,000-4,000 euros. In the past two days, about 250 Afghan migrants have camped out at Victoria Square in central Athens, after they returned from...

Thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded across Greece after the closing of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border. On Wednesday morning, 1,700 refugees from the islands close to Turkey arrived at the Piraeus Port. However, authorities were not...

Three ferries with 3,600 refugees on board arrived at Piraeus port on Thursday. "Blue Star 1" ferry carried 1,163 refugees from Chios and Mytilene, "Nisos Rhodos" carried 1,083 refugees from Mytilene, Chios and Samos and "Blue Star Patmos" carried another...

Victoria Square in Athens has turned into a makeshift camping area for refugees, while the weather conditions in the country have taken a turn for the worse. In total, more than 500 refugees have found shelter in the square,...

Three mosques are operating legally in Athens at the moment after getting licenses in the past two years, and many more illegally according to a Kathimerini report. The Hamza mosque at the Victoria Square area started operating in the summer...

The Greek government decided to transfer thousands of refugees to the port of Kavala, only one day after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras openly admitted that the country would not be able to deal with the refugee crisis on...

Since January 1, 2015 some 710,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe, according to Frontex. The vast majority come from the war-torn regions of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.  While Frontex estimates that 350,000 of them have entered through Greece, the...