Greece

The investigative website Nordic Monitor recently published an extensive report claiming there is evidence that Turkish secret services have for year been conducting operations on Greek territory to locate dissident Turks who fled their country to avoid political persecution. Ankara has...

  As Europe grapples with the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, concern is also growing over the living conditions of migrants and asylum-seekers living in camps on the Greek islands, particularly among members of the European Parliament (MEPs). On Friday, the European Parliament...

A special out-patient infirmary aimed at the early detection of possible coronavirus cases among asylum seekers at the VIAL reception and identification centre (RIC) on Chios has started operations just outside the camp, it was announced on Wednesday. The VIAL...

Nineteen Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have appealed to the EU and Greek authorities demanding the immediate improvement of conditions in Greece’s Refugee Camps and Hot Spots. The NGO that support refugees and migrants throughout the world claim in their joint announcement...

Refugees and migrants in Greek camps suffer widespread sexual violence and harassment while the living conditions are sub-standard, the UN said on Friday. According to a Digital Journal report, in 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) received...

The government must speed up winter preparations at refugee camps on islands in the Aegean Sea where there has been a sharp rise in arrivals, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Nearly 5,000 refugees; mostly Syrian or Iraqi...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by the deteriorating situation of migrant facilities on Greece’s eastern Aegean islands. The number of new arrivals, which accelerated in August, is putting pressure on overcrowded reception facilities and is hampering efforts to...

Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas inaugurated two new refugee camps in Serres and Drama describing them as "decent camps for dignified people." The camps will be operated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) under the supervision and coordination of...

Conditions in refugee facilities on Greek islands are still dire, says a Deutsche Welle report, quoting a Medecins Sans Frontieres doctor. The Human Rights Organization Pro Asyl has accused Germany of delaying the admission of refugees from southern Europe as...

The Greek government is planning to close most refugee camps in 2017 and transfer 10,000 people to apartments, Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said in parliament on Friday, responding to a relevant question tabled by the Centrists’ Union. “Today we...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on the government to deal with the repercussions of the refugee issue on the local communities. Mitsotakis on Friday visited the refugee camp of Moria, Mytilene, and he was briefed...

On Tuesday an Afghan man's body was found in a field near the Greek border town of Didymoteicho in northern Greece. The man was a migrant traveling with a group across the Evros River when he succumbed to the elements...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that more policing is needed in Greece's refugee camps and that the relocation process for those who qualify should be expedited. After his meetings with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and...

According to officials from Europol, fake passports destined for the terror group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) have been discovered at refugee camps in Greece, Italian newspaper La Stampa reports. The paper says that Europol...

Refugee children as young as seven years old have been sexually assaulted in official European refugee camps in Greece, an Observer report says. Human rights groups and charities cite testimonies from certain camps according to which youngsters are too terrified...