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...

Migrants and refugees on Greece's island of Lesvos have been trying in the last several days to help the country's fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic by sewing their own face masks. At the same time, however, fears of a...

A vessel carrying 29 migrants and refugees ran aground in bad weather on Megas Lakkas beach near Lyxouri, Kefallonia after one of its engines broke down. The boat, which was washed ashore on Friday night, had set sail for...

A total of 254 migrants and refugees arrived on the northern Aegean island of Lesvos, in the last 24 hours, Greek authorities announced on Thursday. The migrants and refugees were in four dinghies that were located by the Coast Guard...

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...

Lesvos island decongestion plan is in full progress. 408 persons have left the island in the last 24 hours. 152 refugees and migrants left on Friday evening from the port of Piraeus while another 256 left with the ferry "Nissos...

Over 1,200 migrants and refugees have arrived on the northern Aegean islands in the first 10 days of October. There were 1,005 new arrivals recorded at the hotspots on Lesvos, Chios and Samos, while 44 new arrivals on Lesvos and...

Sixty-eight new migrant and refugees arrivals were recorded on the island of Lesvos in the last 48 hours while no arrivals were reported on the islands of Chios and Samos. According to police, 3,717 persons seeking asylum that have not...

One Hundred and thirteen migrants and refugees arrived on the northern Aegean islands in the last 48 hours. Fifty of them were recorded on Chios and 63 on Samos while no arrivals were reported on Lesvos. According to police as...

The number of migrants and refugees stranded on the island of Lesvos dropped for the first time to under 3,000 according police figures. On Friday, 2,999 migrants and refugees were recorded on the island of Lesvos from 5,591 that...

Migrants and refugees' flow to the northern Aegean island posted a significant increase in the last two days. 100 persons arrived on Lesvos and 230 on Chios while no arrivals were recorded on Samos. According to the official figures...

The number of refugees and migrants stranded on the northern Aegean islands dropped, for the first time, below 10,000 on Wednesday. The decline is attributed to the low flow to the islands and the acceleration of the asylum requests procedure. No...

Greek Coast Guard located 16 undocumented migrants early Tuesday on a beach on Samos island. The migrants and refugees had disembarked from a dinghy and told the authorities that a man that was among them fell into the water and...

Greece is struggling to make use of EU money for migrants and refugees after having absorbed just a fraction of the 509 million euros in funding for up to 2020. In comparison, Athens has used about 2 percent of 294.6...

Over 1,200 children migrants and refugees completed their first trimester in school, according to the International Migration Organisation (IMO). IMO said that 35 school buses transfer every day children from 13 hosting centers throughout the country to the closest...