More than 630 migrants arrive on Greek islands since Friday
eKathimerini — A total of 633 migrants and refugees have landed on Greece’s Aegean islands in the past three days, authorities said Monday. Officials reported […]
Refugee Crisis
28 foreign nationals arrested in Crete with fake travel documents
TornosNews — Twenty eight foreign nationals were arrested by police at the international airports of Chania and Heraklion on Monday for attempting to travel abroad […]
Germany to resume returning migrants to Greece
IBTimes — Germany is set to restart the process of sending migrants back to Greece despite a backlog at Greek migrant registration centres, the so […]
Far-right anti-migrant ship told it’s not welcome in Crete
eKathimerini — Dozens of protesters gathered in the town of Ieraptera on the southern Aegean island of Crete on Monday night to rally against the […]
Refugee aid dries up in Greece as media interest wanes
Al Jazeera — Only last year, journalists were winning awards for watching refugees drown. Last week, seven people died just off the Turkish coast and […]
EU to scale back Greek asylum aid
euobserver — Stranded refugees on the Greek islands will soon have to rely solely on the Greek government for all basic services. Athens is set […]
Greece paying asylum seekers to forgo appeals
EU Observer — The Greek government is giving cash incentives for asylum seekers on the islands to forgo their legal rights to appeal their cases. […]
‘Cemetery of the nameless’ established in Turkey’s west for Syrians who died en route to Greece
Hurryet Daily News — A “cemetery of the nameless” has been established near the coast in the western Turkish province of İzmir for Syrians who […]
Police arrests traffickers for holding migrants hostage
AP– Police in Greece have arrested three Pakistani nationals for holding hostage 16 migrants without authorization to be in the country and demanding money for […]
EU restarts returns of new asylum seekers to Greece
DW — Freshly-arrived asylum seekers in Europe can once again be sent back to Greece if that was their first entry point, under a new […]
Merkel, Rutte agreed refugee quota in deal with Turkey, did not tell other EU leaders
DW — When the EU-Turkey deal was struck last March, it was hailed by some in western Europe as a breakthrough for resolving the refugee […]
EU threatens members with legal action over refugees
eKathimerini — The European Commission is piling the pressure on European Union member-states that are refusing to take in asylum seekers from Greece and Italy, […]
The new external border of Europe? Berlin to send 30 more officers to police northern Greek border
The European Union will send urgently 30 border police officers to Greece’s northern border, reported the online edition of Spiegel. The report says that Berlin […]
German government announcement to lift block on deportations to Greece just a public relations exercise
DW — The German government in an attempt to regain some of its declining popularity over its immigration policy announced that it is planning to lift […]
Migrant dies of hypothermia as gov’t tries to improve camps
eKathimerini — As authorities seek to improve living conditions for migrants at reception centers around the country amid forecasts of another cold snap later this […]