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Following Greece's strongly worded protest to Austria for imposing drastic migrant crossing restrictions and for calling a meeting of Balkan states on the migrant crisis without including Greece, PM Alexis Tsipras blasted his Dutch counterpart over the phone today...

The police operation underway in Idomeni on Tuesday morning in order to evacuate train tracks that were occupied by Afghan refugees, is completed. The refugees were protesting against FYROM’s decision to ban their passage through the borders. Police forces have...

Greece has filed a formal complaint with Austria over its decision to call a meeting of Balkan states on the migrant crisis. "Political Director of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Petros Mavroeidis, presented yesterday to Austrian Ambassador to Greece, Mrs. Andrea...

The Greek government decided to accommodate 50,000 more refugees on its soil and then negotiate again with the EU on how to tackle the continuous migrant inflow. In an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Monday evening, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided...

According to daily French financial newspaper Les Echos, Greece is fighting for its life to avoid isolation as one country after another are sealing off their borders to refugees and migrants. European officials may have been able to reach an...

A group of about 150 Afghan refugees and migrants occupied the train tracks in Idomeni in recent hours. The group took down the wire fence along the tracks of Idomeni in order to protest the ban to enter the...

A family of refugees have been reunited with their beloved cat, after splitting up from the pet while fleeing from Iraq. The epic journey of Kunkush the "refugee cat" lasted over four months when he was welcomed in Norway...

Greece-Turkey relations are about to be put to the test on March 6, when Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will participate in the European Union summit on the refugee crisis. Athens is considering that the key to stemming the refugee...

Over 11,000 refugees and migrants have rushed to the Greek islands in the last three days while government officials were apparently preoccupied with the EU summit in Brussels, thereby presenting Turkish smugglers with a golden opportunity to conduct their...

No European country could have dealt with the size of the refugee flows that Greece had to deal with, Greek Alternate Foreign Minister for European Affairs Nikos Xydakis said in an interview with Agence Europe news agency. Asked to comment...