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Xenios Zeus Fills Detention Centers

A year after beginning the ironically-named Xenios Zeus (Hospitality) program to round up illegal immigrants and then deport them, Greece's detention centers are full of them and there's no room for more, police and immigration officials said. Police are now...

Papariga Says Xenios Zeus Immigrant Sweep "Inhuman"

ATHENS - Greek Communist Party Aleka Papariga has denounced the roundup of 6,000 immigrants, under the code name Xenios Zeus, as inhuman and violating their human rights. Papariga stated that, “The Greek police forces are hiding an alternative reality...

Greece Will Open to Tourists on July 1; No Prior Covid-19 Test Required

Greece will allow international flights to return to its tourist destinations beginning on July 1, the country's prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in a televised address on Wednesday. Mitsotakis announced that the tourism season will officially begin on June 15. Health...

Greek PM Outlines 24 Billion Euro Plan to Kick-Start Tourism, Economy

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined a plan on Wednesday to kick-start the Greek economy with a 24 billion euro program ($26.3 billion) to help businesses and employees recover after the coronavirus lockdown. In a televised address, Mitsotakis spelled out...

Greek Deputy Migration Minister: Citizenship Granting Bill for Second Generation Migrants to be Tabled First

Greece’s Deputy Migration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou, in an interview with Athens-Macedonian News Agency, declared that her first bill to be tabled in the Greek Parliament will be the one regarding granting citizenship to second generation migrants. As she said, the bill is...

Greek Migration Minister: Citizenship to All Children Born in Greece

Greece's newly appointed Alternate Minister of Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou introduced the Ministry's initiative policies regarding migration. Among others, the program includes granting Greek citizenship to second generation migrants who were born and raised in Greece, as well as...

Evacuation of Three Squats in Patras

On August 5, at 7.30 in the morning, a police operation evacuated three squats in Patras; the Maragopoulio squat, the Parartima squat and the squat at a building of the Technical University. During the operation, the police arrested five people...

Greece Wants EU To Take Immigrants

Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the country continues to be so overwhelmed by illegal immigrants that other European Union countries should take some of them. He told BBC’s Hardtalk program that undocumented immigrants in Greece were “a huge...

Thessaloniki Hosts Anti-Racist Meet

This weekend Thessaloniki is going to show its anti-racist face with a  festival that will take place this year in the former Pavlos Melas camp in Stavroupoli. It will include musical, cultural, political, and sports activities as well as...

HRW Rips Police Over Immigrants

The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch accused Greek police of violating the international human rights law and European Union regulations, regarding the policy applied for immigration control. More specifically the Greek Police is accused of racial profiling, arbitrary detention...

Greek Police Fear Boston Episode

In the wake of the bombing of the Boston Marathon by terrorists, Greek police said they are worried that a similar attack could happen and have stepped up their scrutiny of Islamist extremists, authorities said. The Boston bombing, the revelation...

Fewer Illegal Immigrants Cross The Evros

An ongoing government sweep to round up illegal immigrants, Operation Xenios Zeus, has also deterred them from trying to enter Greece across the Evros River on the Turkish border, Greek police said. The influx in the region has been reduced...

Korean Tourist Says Greek Police Beat Him

South Korean back packer Hyun Young Jung, who had been traveling through Europe for more than a year before reaching Greece, has claimed he was assaulted by police, then handcuffed and taken to a police station where he was again...

The 12 Events That Bent Greece In 2012

The world was supposed to end in 2012 – on Dec. 21 for you Mayan calendar believers and doomsday cultists – and for many Greeks it seemed like it did. Like the Flogging Molly song, it was the worst...

Two Greeks Arrested in Immigrant Attacks

With racist attacks in Greece rapidly rising, police said they arrested two men and charged them with assaulting three Bangladeshi migrants in separate incidents. Police said the two 22-year-olds were riding in a car in Athens' southern suburbs and accosted...