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 …

“Fiscal targets that have been set at other times probably will not be me in 2020,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said addressing the German-Greek  Economic Forum in Berlin on Monday. Speaking about the economic impact from the coronavirus and the emerging migration crisis at Greece’s eastern borders, he said …

A C-130 of the Greek Air Force left Cyprus for northern Greece early Sunday evening. On board of the aircraft 22 members of the Cypriot security forces deployed to the Evros region to assist the Greek security forces at the border with Turkey. #HellenicAirForce C-130H from Republic of #Cyprus towards …

An unprecedented incident has allegedly taken place in the Evros river: National guards and armed vigilantes on patrol have shot and injured one policeman “mistakenly thinking he was a migrant,” media  have been reporting since early Sunday afternoon. According to media reports, a group of national guards and local were …

A fire broke out at a refugee center facility on the island of Lesvos late on Saturday evening, totally destroying the facility that was offering education and workshops lesson to some 25,000 refugees. Communicty center OPne Happy Family is jsut a few meters away from the accommodation center Kara Tepe …

Turkey ‘s Interior Minister Minister has threatened that “one million refugees” would travel to  Europe and said about the situation on Evros “this is only the beginning.” Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed on Saturday that 143,000 people have reached Greece since the opening of the borders to the EU. The number …

“Right now, let’s be honest, the agreement is dead,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with CNN released late on Friday. “And it’s dead because Turkey has decided to completely violate the agreement because of what happened in Syria,” he added. “Europe is not going to be blackmailed …

The EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs met today for an extraordinary Council meeting in Zagreb, following a request by Greece. In a joint statement issued after the meeting the foreign ministers expressed not only full support to Greece but also their serious concern over the situation at the Greek-Turkish border …

Greece will extend the fence to its Evros borders with Turkey to 40 km, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Friday morning. The additional fence will be installed in “sensitive” areas preferred for illegal entries by migrants and refugees. The fence currently covers 12.5 km. Speaking to ANT1 TV, Petsas …

Locals in Serres, northern Greece have been staging protests against the government plans to move migrants and refugees who arrived on the islands after March 1 in camps in their areas. In the town of Sintiki, dozens gathered outside the closed military camp Kalergis before down on Friday and set …

Τhe ceasefire agreement between Turkey and Russia not to change refugee policy, presidential sources in Ankara said on Friday morning. The agreement on a ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib province does not require Ankara to change its refugee policy, the sources stressed. “The Russia-Turkey agreement does not require the rollback of …