migrant crisis

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, on the sidelines of the European Summit held in Brussels. The meeting focused on Frontex and migrant hotspot issues and Tsipras briefed Merkel on the progress of the works at...

Greece does not have a comprehensive strategy for the return of economic migrants to their country of origin and lacks sufficient detention centers in order to prevent their escape, says a European Commission report. The report marks the progress on the response...

Greek Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas announced on Tuesday that migrants and refugees will be housed at the hockey stadium in the area of Ellinko, in the southern suburbs of Attica, for the next three months. Migrants and refugees will...

The European Union is looking to take a decisive step in establishing a more proactive border control in light of rising concern's over the union's security. Frontex, the EU's current border authority, could soon be in the past. The body largely has...

  The leaders of the European Union are set to unveil a number of measures its members states will have to enforce by February, in response to the refugee crisis and growing security concerns. Amid the continuous influx of migrants and refugees,...

The mayors of Elliniko-Argyroupoli, Palaio Faliro, Alimos and Glyfada have reacted strongly to the setting of migrant camps in their municipalities. Respective mayors Yiannis Konstantatos, Dionysis Chadzidakis, Andreas Kondylis and Giorgos Papanikolaou sent a letter to Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis...

The FYROM army has placed wooden and metal stilts in a length of about six kilometers with a two meters high wire fence. The FYROM army confirmed  that a wire fence will be built in the area of Metzitlia, the...

As the refugee crisis keeps developing, recent changes in the status quo in Greece's northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has had a significant effect in the operations of the railway track that connects Thessaloniki and the...

A convoy of 29 buses carrying a total of 1,500 migrants are currently driving back to Athens from the Idomeni railway station on border shared between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, FYROM,  and Greece. This is according to Greek...

The Greek government has chosen seven vacant army camps in Thessaloniki to accommodate migrants in order to ease the overcrowded crossing at the Greece-FYROM border. The camps are under renovation by the army and local authorities in order to temporarily...