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On Wednesday the Czech Republic announced in a report that they will be resettling 10 asylum seekers from Greece, as part of the agreement that all EU countries have undertaken. The agreement deals with the redistribution and resettlement of migrants...

Hellenic Coast Guard officers rescued 61 migrants off the island of Kos on Tuesday and arrested two suspected traffickers. A boat carrying migrants was seen sinking close to the island shore early Tuesday morning, and authorities were notified. A coast...

Two boats carrying 52 migrants and refugees were collected early Sunday morning off the island of Lesvos by two Frontex vessels. The migrants were then transported to the Mytilene Port to be registered at the Moria hotspot. After Sunday's arrivals, the...

The International Organization for Migration reports nearly 3,000 refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe have died so far this year. Most of these deaths have occurred along the dangerous route from North Africa to Italy. This is...

Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said that the Greek government did not have control of European Union funding allocated to handling the refugee crisis. Speaking in parliament on Monday, Mouzalas admitted that large sums of money were given to non-government...

According to government plans, around three-quarters of Greece's migrant reception centers will be closed by September. The plan is to allow the 56,000 refugees who have reached Greece's shores and found themselves unable to travel on to other destinations due...

Greece does not exclude that a mass inflow of refugees from Turkey will come after the attempted military coup, a government source told RIA Novosti. "A meeting just ended. The islands are ready to accept flows of refugees....

An Afghan asylum seeker was killed in a brawl that broke out among several dozens of migrants at Greece's Elliniko refugee camp on Thursday, police say. The makeshift camp is located at the abandoned old Athens airport and houses more than 3,000...

It seems as though Italy is the new frontline in the latest developments of the migrant crisis. Following the EU deal with Turkey in April it appears that Greece has been receiving less arrivals of illegal trafficking across the Aegean...

The numbers of refugees are growing with 56,853 migrants identified on Greek territory on Monday, while 70 new arrivals were reported in the last 24 hours. According to the Refugee Crisis Management Coordination Body's figures, 23,530 of the refugees are in northern...