Greece

Nearly twice the number of migrants and refugees entered Greece in May 2022 in comparison to the previous year, led in large part by the 8,700 Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion. Since the onset of the invasion in late February,...

In order to attempt to restrict transmission of the coronavirus over the holiday season, Greece announced a mandatory 10-day quarantine on Monday for all those arriving in the country from abroad starting December 18 and lasting until January 7. Additionally,...

According to data from Frontex the European Union's border protection agency, the number of illegal border crossings into Europe were down 30% in the month of August. In the first eight months of 2020, the number of illegal entries into...

About 9.6 million tourists arrived to Greece by car in 2019, amounting to 30.6 percent of total arrivals, says a study of the Institute of the Hellenic Tourism Enterprises  Association (INSETE) published on Thursday. The study entitled "Road tourism in...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) published on Thursday its revised forecast for the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus in various destinations around the world. The IATA said that airline companies are expected to lose a staggering $89 billion in...

A tragic incident took place in the early hours of Monday, as a young child drowned off the Greek island of Lesvos. The boat that the child had been on board of capsized. The Greek authorities managed to rescue all...

A UNHCR report released on Monday, entitled "Desperate Journeys," revealed the extent of the increase in refugee and migrant arrivals to Greece since the beginning of 2019. The largest number of refugees and migrants reaching Europe this year came by...

The Greek government decided at an urgent meeting on Saturday to strengthen the Coast Guard due to an increasing number of illegal immigrant arrivals, a spokesman for the government told reporters. "During the meeting, a decision was made to continue...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendas summoned the Turkish Ambassador to Greece, Burak Özügergin, on Friday to protest the huge numbers of migrants who arrived from Turkish shores to Greece's Lesvos Island on Thursday. According to Greek media reports, Dendias expressed Greece's...

A sharp increase in the number of immigrants arriving on the Greek islands was recorded last week. A total of 1,365 immigrants arrived on the shores of the eastern Aegean islands during the week of July 8-14, when their number...

International arrivals in Greek airports grew 13 percent in the first four months of the year, totaling approximately 2.5 million flights, according to the latest figures published by the Institute of Greek Tourism Confederation, INSETE. INSETE's data shows that particularly...

Greece received the biggest number of migrants from January 1 to May 8, the United Nations (UN) confirmed on Friday. According to the UN Migration agency, a total of more than 17,000 irregular migrants reached the European shores during the...

According to the latest figures which were made available by Greek authorities on Thursday, the number of migrants who tried to enter Greece from Turkey last week was significantly higher compared to one week prior. A total of 662 people...

The Greek Minister of Migration, Dimitris Vitsas, revealed on Friday that the influx of migrants over the land border with Turkey increased by almost 300 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year. There was an increase of 10 percent...

Migrant arrivals in Greece for September have spiked, according to the latest data released by the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR). On this month, 5,400 migrants and refugees passed through the Aegean Sea and from the land border with...