Greece

For several months after the autumn of 2015, the sleepy village of Idomeni and the refugee camp that grew up along Greece's northern border after this was closed and had dominated global headlines. The tent city is now gone but,...

  As the sun rose last Tuesday morning, the Greek Authorities started evacuating the Idomeni refugee camp at the border of Greece and FYROM where approximately 10,000 refugees had been living in dire conditions for months on end. As the refugees packed up their...

Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has denounced the forced movement of thousands of refugees from Idomeni, the lack of information provided about their destinations and the restrictions imposed on humanitarian assistance. The NGO has called on the Greek authorities to...

Greek public broadcaster ERT reported that the eviction of refugees and migrants from the town of Idomeni is complete. The site, near the Greek border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), was a gathering spot for people...

The second day of the evacuation of the makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni was deemed a success by the Greek government with only 1,500 migrants left in the area on Wednesday night. A total 1,003 refugees and migrants were removed...

The evacuation of the makeshift migrant camp at Idomeni is not going according to the plan of Greek authorities as many migrants refuse to board the buses that would carry them to official hospitality facilities. According to a Skai television...

The evacuation process in Idomeni camp began on Tuesday morning, and according to the police more than 1,500 refugees and migrants have departed with buses and are heading towards structures in the wider region of Thessaloniki. The police forces however,...

Hellenic Police on Tuesday morning started an operation to clear the makeshift migrant camp in Idomeni, on the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border. More than 8,000 migrants and refugees had been left stranded at the tent town during the...

Violence erupted again on Wednesday at Idomeni, the sprawling tent city that has been created on Greece's northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Incidents began at 8:30 p.m. when about a hundred migrants ran towards...

Six residents from the village of Idomeni on the Greek border, including the community's president Xanthoula Soupli, on Wednesday filed a legal suit against Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas for failing to protect the village from problems created...

Tension broke out in Idomeni when groups of Pakistani and Afghan refugees and migrants clashed by throwing rocks and other objects. The Police interfered by using tear gas. One refugee who was hit by rocks was transferred by the MSF...

  On the evening of May 3, Syrian refugees Sacher, 27, and Roychagia, 20, exchanged vows in a marriage ceremony at the sprawling refugee camp in Idomeni. Although the young couple could never have imagined the journey to Germany to escape the...

The railway in Idomeni has been reopened, after the refugees and migrants in the camp have removed their tents. In addition, the police have started handing out flyers by the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, so that the...

According to  the Athenian News Agency, Idomeni‘s railway — a neutral zone at the borders  between Greece and FYROM — re opens today after 30 days. Refugees and migrants who had camped out on the railway line connecting Greece and...

An independent group of volunteers at Idomeni set up a school for children refugees and migrants. The sign outside the big tent set up by volunteers from different countries reads "Idomeni cultural centre" and the lessons are held every day....