refugees

The Greek government is to change immigration policy under constant pressure by the European Union in regards to stemming the migrant inflow to Europe. Earlier in the year, Athens had shut down migrant detention centers due to congestion and inhumane...

Over one million migrants and asylum seekers reached Europe by sea in 2015, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Wednesday. Greece was by far the top landing spot with 844,176 arrivals, and over 150,000 reached...

Frontex, the European Union's border patrol agency, announced that it has deployed additional staff and equipment to Greek islands for improved external border management in the Aegean Sea. The agency reported that under the new Rapid Poseidon Intervention program, 293 Frontex...

The Greek government has passed a series of welfare measures claiming to help the most vulnerable groups in 2016 and tackle the migrant inflow. According to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the legislative act that was signed, December 24 aims to...

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been on the Greek island of Lesvos since this past weekend, witnessing the unfolding refugee crisis first hand. With almost a million migrants and refugees having arrived in Europe in 2015, 491,646 of which entered the European Union through...

Female refugees face sexual exploitation while children are vulnerable to kidnapping, on the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece and then to northern Europe, says an Al Jazeera report. The report follows the story of Samira, a 32-year-old Moroccan woman...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann accused Greece of failing to handle the continuous refugee inflow. Schaeuble talked to Bild am Sonntag newspaper saying that Athens has repeatedly ignored the Dublin agreement that oblige migrants to...

Despite the loss of tourism revenues on Greek islands where thousands of refugees arrive daily, some businesses seem to profit from the inflow. The number of tourists visiting certain islands has dropped significantly since the refugee crisis escalated in the...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has decided to participate at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, in January. The annual meeting of the world's economic elite at the Swiss resort town is to take place January 20-23 and Alexis...

Europe needs better control of its borders, said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Saturday, referring to cases of forged Syrian passports in the hands of Islamic State jihadists who have crossed to Europe posing as refugees. The statement follows...