The largest Greek island, Crete, has been added to the UK’s “travel corridor”. This means that any holidaymakers returning to the UK after 4am on Sunday 18th October, won’t need to quarantine.…
Tag: Lesvos
Five Greek islands have been added to the England’s quarantine exemption list, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday. Arrivals from Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos, will no longer have to…
The Polish government sent 156 mobile housing units to Greece for the accommodation of refugees. They were received by Alternate Minister of Migration & Asylum Giorgos Koumoutsakos in the presence of Poland’s…
Photographs published today by Protothema, show that the burnt Moria refugee camp has turned into “garbage dump,” which residents of the area are calling a “sanitary bomb.” Less than a month ago,…
According to information from Iefimerida, Dutch members of an NGO chartered a plane and departed from the Netherlands to Lesvos in order to take with them any refugees and illegal immigrant who…
Greece has extended measures to fight Covid-19 for another week, until October 12. The announcement was made by Deputy Civil Protection and Crises Management Minister Nikos Hardalias. In the Attica Region, where accounts for…
One hundred and thirty-nine vulnerable illegal immigrants who had been living in overcrowded Greek island camps, have been relocated to Germany. According to Greece’s Migration Ministry, the group consisted of children suffering…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel referred to the tension in the East Mediterranean in a speech to the German Parliament but continued to insist on EU-Turkey cooperation. “One can not imagine how thin…
Some 700 migrants, mostly families or members of vulnerable groups, left Lesvos on Monday and boarded a ferry to the mainland. This was the first stage of the planned relocation of 2,500…
Greek police have dismantled an organized human trafficking network in Lesvos, in which a total of four Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are involved. A case has already been filed against 33 NGO members…
Unaccompanied child migrant uses foul language against Greeks while others trash hotel room (VIDEOS)
A video has emerged online of a child migrant staying in a hotel in Central Greece “expressing his gratitude” for being hosted in the country, after entering illegally, by using foul language.…
What some do not seem to realise, or simply turn a blind eye to as it does not suit their theories, is that the European Union, led by Germany, is NOT trying…
Once again, illegal immigrants vandalised a Greek Orthodox church on the island of Lesvos. This is the second time this year the church of Agios Georgios has been attacked. Illegal immigrants destroyed…
Illegal expenditures, financial management problems, issues with the lack of quality in services provided to minors, issues in the legality in using premises, and observance of public hygiene rules regarding COVID-19, were…
Greece confirmed 243 positive covid-19 cases at the new temporary hosting facility for migrants and refugees at Kara Tepe on the island of Lesvos. According to the National Public Health Organisation, a…
Protesters in Germany’s capital on Sunday demanded that the government do more to help migrants stranded on Greek islands following a series of fires that devastated the refugee camp of Moria. The…
The testimony of a witness and a video posted on social media the night the Moria migrant camp was destroyed by fire led to the identification of six young Afghans accused of…
All the illegal immigrants who are in Lesvos today will have left by Easter 2021, Greek Minister of Civil Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis told The Guardian. “They will all leave. Of the roughly…
Turkey is the only country that refers to and demands the demilitarisation of the eastern Aegean islands. With regard to the militarisation of the islands in the Eastern Aegean, various international agreements…
A former Secretary General of the so-called Turkish Ministry of National Defense claimed that Greece does not have sovereignty over several Aegean islands, such as Chios and Lesvos, and must evacuate them.…