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Harvard University, one of the world's most prestigious academic institutions, has reportedly been mulling how to create a course devoted to the refugee crisis which has hit Europe in the last decade. The proposed course would be offered in close partnership...

The northeastern Aegean island of Lesvos was a major focal point in the recent migrations which brought more than one million asylum seekers to Europe in 2015 alone. Around 60% of all the asylum seekers and immigrants who transited...

Acclaimed British actress Vanessa Redgrave, presented her documentary film "Sea Sorrow", which is about child refugees in the European migrant crisis, at a special screening in Athens, on Friday evening. The film is part of the 23rd Athens International Film...

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...

In an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood by her policies on the refugee crisis in 2015 and said that it was unfair that Greece and Italy were left on their...

The European Commission on Tuesday extended for a year a pilot program allowing Turkish visitors to get a short-term visa upon arrival at the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean, in an attempt to help boost local tourism which has...

Emerging from a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the mayors of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros said they received no firm commitments about decongesting islands with hotspots of refugees and migrants. The prime minister had confirmed...

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos called on the EU state members to continue and accelerate the refugee relocations from Greece and Italy and to send more experts to assist in the elaboration of the asylum requests. In statements to...

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency documents that there were 169,993 arrivals in Greece by sea in 2016, compared to 85,723 arrivals in 2015. From these 87 percent were from the world’s top 10 refugee-producing countries (Syria and the Arab...

The United States is fully committed to Greece’s success and this commitment will be confirmed by U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Athens in November, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said on Thursday, during a...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked for effective help from European partners on the refugee problem instead of flexible or optional aid, during his speech at the European Council in Brussels on Thursday. According to government sources, Tsipras said that "Greece...

Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas urged European Parliament President Martin Schulz to boost the body's role in the refugee issue during a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. According to a ministry press release, Mouzalas described the situation in...

"The walls and fences take us back to the deeply divided postwar Europe of the past," EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Sunday in an interview with Realnews newspaper. Avramopoulos expressed his optimism over the refugee relocation program...

While speaking to Parliament on Friday, Greece's Immigration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas conceded that the government is overwhelmed in its efforts to tackle the refugee crisis. “It is true that we overburdened certain municipalities,” Mouzalas said in reference to northern...

Libra Group CEO George Logothetis called on anyone who wants to assist in the refugee crisis in Greece to contact the group and become a "partner" in saving lives. In a heartwarming speech during the Concordia Summit in New York...