refugees

Speaking at a panel with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble hinted that Greece is not implementing the reforms it has agreed on as required by the bailout agreement. In a panel discussing "The Future of...

The crossing point for refugees at Idomeni, Greece, opened a few minutes ago. Fyrom's authorities are allowing the crossing of refugees with documents stating clearly that the country of their final destination is Austria or Germany. The authorities said that...

The fiscal cost of refugees to Greece was 300 million euros, or 0.17% of GDP, according to an International Monetary Fund report. The two European countries that suffered the highest fiscal costs due to the refugee influx in 2015 were...

About 350 refugees waiting to cross to central Europe are stranded in northern Greece as Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has temporarily shut its borders. There are already seven buses with 350 people on board waiting for permission from...

Humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has denounced Europe’s migration policy of deterrence in 2015 as a "catastrophic failure" that has endangered asylum seekers and created more business for smugglers. In its report “Obstacle Course to Europe” issued...

Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said that refugees see Greece as a transit country and that Turkey is not doing its part in stemming the migrant inflow. Speaking to Deutsche Welle, the Greek deputy reiterated that the refugee problem is...

Greece must have set up refugee and migrant registration centers within the next four weeks if they are to honor their commitments, European Union Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said. Avramopoulos spoke to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, saying that the same...

The adverse weather conditions that prevail across the country have, at least temporarily intercepted the migrants and refugees inflow to Lesvos in the last 24 hours. Only 17 persons have been identified at Moria hotspot while according to authorities 2,854...

Five members of the international charities Team Humanity and PromAid who were arrested on the island of Lesbos in Greece have been released on bail. A prosecutor had brought criminal charges against the volunteers on Thursday for allegedly setting off in...

Another tragedy involving refugees occurred off the coast of Samos, Greece. Greek Coast Guard officials were patrolling the area close to the Greek island when they spotted the bodies of six refugees. The officials managed to retrieve the bodies of...