A dangerous incident took place at the Evros border netween Turkey and Greece, when Turkish soldiers fired warning shot and then aimed at German officers patrolling with border with Greece. According to an exclusive story by German magazine Der Spiegel the incident took place on April 28. Frontex has deployed …

Finland has agreed to take one hundred unaccompanied refugee children from camps in Greece and another 30 adult refugees and migrants in the framework of family reunification. This was agreed during a telephone conversation between Deputy Minister of Migration Giorgos Koumoutsakos and Finnish Interior Minister Olly-Poika Parviainen on Wednesday. According …

No COVID-19 confirmed cases in the hotspots on the islands and not a single life has so far been lost to the novel coronavirus in accommodation facilities for refugees and migrants in Greece, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis said on Wednesday. Replying to a relevant question by former Migration …

Three successive fires broke out in the migrants camp on the island of Samos on Sunday evening destroying accommodation for over 100 people. Fire brigades rushed to the area, an operation to evacuate the structure was launched. Tension between police forces and refugees occurred when the first initially prevented the …

Head of Greek Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias rushed to Kranidi in eastern Peloponnese on Tuesday morning, after over 100 asylum-seekers were tested positive to coronavirus. 148 people out of 475 in the accommodation structure were tested positive, and so did one hotel worker and an employee at the Migration organization. …

50 unaccompanied refugee children left Athens international airport for a new life in Germany on Saturday morning. The minors aged 5-16 had arrived in Athens a few days ago from the overcrowded hotspots on the Greek islands, the Reception and Identification Centers of Lesvos, Chios and Samos. An special flight …

More than 2,000 asylum applicants on Greek islands belong to coronavirus-vulnerable groups and will be temporarily moved from hotspots, International Organization of Migration (IOM) Mission Chief for Greece Gianluca Rocco said on Monday. Rocco said that the IOM plans to temporarily house these people in hotels and apartments on the …

Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu resigned on Sunday night, citing his failure in successfully steering the country’s 31-province wide weekend curfew. Soylu’s resignation came an hour before the 48-hour curfew ended. “In a process carried out diligently and meticulously, the responsibility for all implementation of the weekend curfew to stem …

Author, journalist, former member of the Greek Parliament and activist Periklis Korovesis passed away at the age of 79. He was a symbol of resistance against the military junta. He became famous worldwide with his first book The Method: A Personal Account of the Tortures in Greece (Anthropofylakes in Greek …

Something is finally moving in Europe regarding the migration problem is Greece and this despite the coronavirus pandemic. Germany and Luxembourg will take a few dozens of unaccompanied migrant children staying at overcrowded refugee camps, and Austria has pledged to send 181 special containers for the accommodation and health care …

Greece’s health authorities imposed a 14-day quarantine into a migrants camp in Malakasa, near Athens, after a 53-year-old Afghan man was tested positive on coronavirus. The lockdown started on Sunday morning. The man has developed symptoms of COVID-19 and has been transferred to a hospital on Saturday afternoon and is …

Health authorities have placed the Ritsona refugee and asylum-seekers camp in full lockdown for 14 days after 20 people have been tested positive to coronavirus. The full lockdown starts on Thursday, April 2, 2020, entrance or exit are strictly forbidden, except for health authorities and aid workers. The camp is …

A refugee woman living in an accommodation camp in Attica has been tested positive on COVID-19. The asymptomatic woman was pregnant and went to a hospital in Athens for a scheduled birth with a Caesarian section last Thursday. Her baby has been also tested, the results are pending. According to …

The First Aid infirmary opened on Saturday outside the migrants and refugees reception center in Moria, Lesvos. The medical center facility is for first assessment of possible coronavirus incidents among the population of the asylum seekers hosted in the hotspot. According to north Aegean regional governor Kostas Moutzouris the medical …

The President of the Hellenic Republic, the Prime Minister and the leaders of opposition parties gathered at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier to honor the Greek Independence Day. A different, an unprecedented and much quieter ceremony held in times of the coronavirus pandemic Politicians kept a 2-meter safety distance …

Those arriving to Greece from abroad will be placed in 14-day quarantine, deputy government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni announced on Monday. The measure goes into effect immediately, that is starting on March 16. Those not complying with the preventive measure will have to pay an administrative fine, Peloni said, without elaborating …

Frontex has deployed an additional 100 border guards at the Greek land border as part of a rapid border intervention following a request by Greece. Border guards from 22 member-state arrived on Thursday in the region of Evros. Member States will also provide technical equipment, including vessels, maritime surveillance aircraft …

Another foreign far-right agitator who sought to “live his (racist) myth” in Greece has been attacked by suspected antifascists on the Aegean island of Lesvos. Irishman Rowan Croft – who styles himself Grand Torino – was attacked by antifascists on the street during a live YouTube broadcast on Thursday evening. …

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece of “Nazi practices against refugees” at the border and “violations of their human rights.” It is the second time, Erdogan refers to the practices of the Nazi Germany. A few days ago, he had claimed that what Greece does at the border was …

The meeting of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the presidents of the European Commission and the European Council apparently did not go off according to his expectations. When the meeting concluded late on Monday, Erdogan left without any press conference or any statements to his own reporters. Officials from …