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The Dutch Foreign Ministry is going to assist Greece regarding the refugee and migrant issue, by providing the country with medical staple commodities, after the Greek government's request for aid last week. In a short time period, the Dutch government...

Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that refugees will stay 2-3 years in Greece and will help in the country's demographic problem. Speaking on ANT1 television on Thursday, the deputy minister said that, "it is a scientific truth that migrants help...

Greece cannot shoulder the refugee burden on its own and Europe must show solidarity, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday. The Greek prime minister talked to the press after his meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk in Athens. The...

A large number of identified migrants and refugees are on the islands of the northern Aegean waiting to depart for Piraeus. The number of refugees on Lesvos reaches 3,307 while refugees identified at Moria hotspot in the last 24...

One doesn't have to be an opponent of the European project to agree with eurosceptics that today's EU has evolved into something that is in dire need of fundamental reform or dissolution. First, the euro crisis that erupted in 2010...

According to reports, Alternate Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas estimated that given the current situation, if the borders in Idomeni won't reopen soon, which will lead to more than 100,000 refugees and migrants being trapped in Greece. In a meeting on...

The European Commission decided to allocate 700 million euros in financial aid for addressing the humanitarian crisis caused by dozens of thousands of migrants stranded in Greece. The EC proposal will switch 300 million euros this year from its 155-billion-...

"Greece cannot be left alone with the problem," German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said in an interview with Volksstimme newspaper. Merkel stressed the need for common European solutions which do not put pressure on one country and stated that...

Turkey has banned the landing on the Greek island of Lesbos of a helicopter carrying German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen claiming Lesbos is a demilitarized zone. The German official has played a decisive role in the signing of...

Turkey blocked NATO ships from patrolling its territorial waters in order to intercept people-smuggler boats carrying refugees to the Greek islands. It has been previously agreed that NATO warships would be patrolling Aegean waters between Greece and Turkey in an...