Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said that 20 to 25 thousands refugees will remain in Greece if the EU Turkey deal stands. At the same time, he expressed concern about the increasing influx of refugees and migrants on the Greek islands. Speaking to Skai TV on Tuesday, Mouzalas said if …

Greek police along with authorities representatives, officials from the International Organization for Migration and interpreters, conclude the clearing out of a makeshift migrants camp at the premises of the old Athens airport Hellinikon. Buses arrived at the camp on Friday morning, by noon they had left the area with 168 …

US-based international aid agency Mercy Corps suspended two employees until an investigation conducted by Greek authorities concludes. The investigation follows claims that workers at the NGO had sexually harassed migrants in Greece’s reception centers and had misused funds aiming to the welfare of refugees and migrants. “Mercy Corps is investigating …

Scotland Yard agents investigate in refugee camps and migrants’ meeting points in Greece seeking potential collaborators of Salman Abedi, the 23-year-old terrorist who blew himself up killing twenty two people in Manchester Arena. According to a report of daily newspaper Parapolitica, British agents have put under the ‘microscope’ people who …

The gradual evacuation of the old Athens airport Hellinikon is underway from a few hundreds refugees and migrants has started in the couple of days. It is the last informal refugee camp in Athens, ever since authorities moved refugees and migrants from Piraeus port in autumn 2015. Evacuation priority is …

The German government has significantly cut back on family reunions for refugees arriving from Greece, local media reported. Germany has taken in over a million people and is facing “limited capacity.” German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has reduced the number of asylum-seeker family members allowed into the country from …

The European Union has suspended funding to a non-government organization (NGO) aiding refugees in Greece pending an investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and financial corruption, a spokesman for European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides has said. “Although these remain allegations under investigation, the Commission is …

105 refugees were rescued in two different incidents on Friday. A Romanian vessel of Frontex located and rescued 45 refugees and migrants in the sea region of Keramia off the island of Chios in the eastern Aegean Sea. In a second incident, 60 refugees and migrants were rescued in the …

The prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court ordered an urgent investigation into claims of genital mutilation in juvenile refugee and migrant girls in the country’s’ reception centers. In a press release issued by the Supreme Court, the prosecutor stresses that this practice is “a barbarity that can not be tolerated by …

Miserable present, no future.  The brain drain from Greece takes distributing dimensions as even teenagers want to leave the country. For studies or for professional development. An entire generation of teenagers, regardless of their economic status and possibilities, want to leave Greece and move abroad. These plans have usually the …

Syrian refugees of Kurdish origin continue their hunger strike for sixth consecutive day in the hot spot of Moria on the island of Lesvos. The twelve men protest for long delays in the process of  examining asylum requests by the secondary committees. Eleven of them launched the hunger strike last …

European Union auditors say that migrants centers – the famous Hot Spots – set up in Greece and Italy to fast-track the registration of migrants are overwhelmed and urgently require more experts, particularly to help children. In a report released Tuesday, the auditors say that two more centers known as …

Two people belonging to the far-right political spectrum have been arrested and taken to the prosecutor. They are accused of attacking refugees in the surrounding area of ​​ the hot spot of Souda on the island of Chios. The two were identified by their victims, while one of them was …

Unaccompanied child refugees in Greece desperate to reach Britain and other parts of northern Europe are being forced to sell their bodies for sex in order to pay smugglers to help them with their journeys, a report from Harvard University claims. The report, from Dr Vasileia Digidiki and Prof Jacqueline …

16-year-old Achilleas Souras presents a powerful political-social installation built around the life jackets discarded by refugees on Greece’s shores. Artist Souras used hundreds of discarded life jackets to assemble an igloo for Moroso’s SOS Save Our Souls installation at Design Week in Milan. The work fuses social engagement with the …

Judges ordered the provisional arrest of the high-ranking Golden Dawn member accused to have been involved in the brutal beating of a 24-year-old student last Friday. The victim reportedly recognized the man ‘beyond any doubt’. The accused denies any involvement. The obviously angered 42-year-old owner of a cafeteria, left the …

The International Migration Organization and Greece have reportedly laid a plan with additional financial incentives to rejected asylum seekers. According to German magazine Der Spiegel, the incentives are thought in order to discourage asylum seekers from appealing the decision and stay longer in the country. The cash grant is double …

A Syrian refugee set himself on fire in the hot spot of VIAL on the island of Chios on Thursday noon. A policeman who attempted to save him was also injured though slighter than the man. The refugee is in critical condition as he suffered severe burn injuries 85% of …

A group of strawberry pickers from Bangladesh has won a case against Greece at Europe’s highest human rights court. They were shot at by employer’s foremen for demanding unpaid wages after they had worked for 5 month sin Manolada, Peloponnese. The Council of Europe’s Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday …

The European Union’s commissioner for migration says there are ways to make all EU members states comply with the program of relocation of  refugees among them. Dimitris Avramopoulos made the statement last week in Warsaw, where he is visiting the growing European border guard agency, Frontex. Poland is refusing to …