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The construction of new hosting areas aiming at decongesting Idomeni and Piraeus port was discussed at Friday's meeting of the Refugees and Migration Policy Government's Council chaired by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Maximos mansion. According to sources, top...

Two refugees were stabbed and three more suffered serious injuries after a violent fight broke out on Thursday night at the Chios refugee registration center, forcing the Doctors of the World to leave the island. This was the third serious...

  Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported on Wednesday March 30, that Turkey is preparing to receive 72,000 refugees and migrants from Greece, in relation to the EU-Turkey agreement for the refugee and migrant management. According to Milliyet's report, the Immigration Department will...

51,393 refugees and migrants were on Greek territory on Thursday while 377 new arrivals were recorded by 8 am. According to the Refugee Crisis Management Coordination Body figures, 28,451 of the refugees are in northern Greece among them 11,324 at...

Actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave was in Athens on Wednesday where she blasted at European governments over the policy of closed borders to refugees. Redgrave visited the makeshift refugee camp at Piraeus Port where close to 6,000 refugees and migrants...

Five days before Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal asylum seekers from Greece as it has agreed with the European Union, neither side is fully ready, says a EurActiv report. The returns of migrants who crossed to Greece...

At least eight people were injured as a violent fight between Syrian and Afghan refugees broke out at Piraeus Port on Wednesday night, the Hellenic Coast Guard says. More than 5,000 migrants and refugees are stranded at Greece's biggest port...

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), is expecting about 25 million tourists in Greece for 2016, and the earnings will augment to 15 billion euro instead of last year's 14.2 million, according to an interview to Bloomberg, by the president...

Now that borders with Greece are closing one after another, and as more refugees and migrants are being trapped in the country despite the fact that the EU-Turkey agreement has become effective for several days now, one "business sector"...

Greece will be able to process asylum claims within two weeks, including appeals, once a migration deal between the European Union and Turkey is implemented said Alternate Minister of National Defense Dimitris Vitsas on Tuesday. The Greek official is coordinator of...