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According to a recent study conducted in four EU member states, Greeks have strong feelings in favor of refugees, but at the same time have strongly negative views toward migration as a whole. More specifically, according to the survey, a...

Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan threatened the European Union on Thursday afternoon that he could allow more than 3.6 million refugees and migrants to leave the country and land on European shores. Speaking at a rally for his party on Thursday,...

Greece, Cyprus, and Bulgaria, the three EU member states closest to Turkey, are expected demand a response regarding the ongoing migration crisis at the EU summit of ministers of justice and home affairs on Tuesday. Athens, Nicosia, and Sofia decided...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed his "great respect" for Greece on Monday, for the heavy burden placed for years upon her during the refugee crisis. Maas' remarks were made during a joint press conference he held along with his...

German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert confirmed on Wednesday the German government's "complete confidence" in the actions taken by the Greek government on the issue of migration. "We have complete confidence that Greece will take the right steps," Seibert said, noting...

The Greek government on Saturday announced a new "robust" migration policy that, it says, will address the increase of migration flows to the Aegean islands over the last months. At a meeting of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and...

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...

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...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday condemned Greece for their treatment of child migrants and refugees in cases dating to early 2016. It ordered Greece to pay €4,000 to each of the nine migrants and refugees aged...

According to the latest data provided by the Greek Coast Guard, 2,075 new migrants and refugees arrived on Greek islands in the Eastern Aegean Sea during the month of January. The figure is lower than that of December, when 3,183...