Yiannis Mouzalas

Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas referred to the condition of thousands of refugees that are stranded in Greece, in his address on Sunday to SYRIZA Central Committee. Mouzalas said that a huge effort has been made in the last period...

The government is going to apply a plan-b in order to manage the refugee and migrant issue, which entails decisions for the temporary accommodation of 100,000 refugees, even in camping, stadiums and abandoned factories. Meanwhile, the European Commission is...

Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas estimated that "about 50,000 to 70,000 refugees and migrants will be trapped in Greece in the next month," while in an interview with Greek TV's Mega channel. Mouzalas said that the government has submitted an...

How much Europe is united, is the issue for Greece, stated on Thursday Greek Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas upon his arrival to the EU Interior Ministers meeting in Brussels. Mouzalas underlined the 'special' importance of Thursday's meeting saying that...

Following Greece's strongly worded protest to Austria for imposing drastic migrant crossing restrictions and for calling a meeting of Balkan states on the migrant crisis without including Greece, PM Alexis Tsipras blasted his Dutch counterpart over the phone today...

Greece’s Alternate Migration Minister, Yiannis Mouzalas, said that there are countries which do not respect EU’s decisions and there is nothing the EU can do about it, the result being that Greece, as a southern country located at the...

Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas criticized on Tuesday the countries of the Visegrad Group – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for insisting that borders should close, saying they are affected by xenophobia and are targeting...

Brussels is to put more pressure on Greece to improve conditions for asylum seekers in an effort to make it easier for other EU member states to send migrants back to Greece, says a Financial Times report. According to the...

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday said he is committed to do everything possible to make the problem of irregular migration manageable and avoid any possibility of Greece being expelled from the Schengen zone. In a statement issued after...

Greece's proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize include an elderly woman, a 40-year-old fisherman of Lesbos and actress Susan Sarandon who volunteered to save lives of refugees. According to Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas, there will be "at least two...