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…
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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…
European Council President Charles Michel said he refuses to “paper over this migration challenge,” after visiting Lesvos on Tuesday. He was accompanied by Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister, Notis Mitarachi. Michel said that the…
Almost a week after the catastrophic fire that turned the Moria migrant camp to ashes and left thousands of illegal immigrants on the street without shelter, the Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis…
Three people died and fifty-three were rescued when a migrant boat sank off the southern Greek island of Crete on Monday. According to the port authority, one of the passengers called the…
Greek Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, called on illegal immigrants to go to the new structures that were erected following the burning of their accommodation on the island of Lesvos, to…
The revelations of the German artist, photographer and activist, Rebecca Somer, about the sad events that unfolded at the Moria migrant camp in Lesvos last week are shocking, Thestival reported. Somer is one…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece expressed his “deepest sorrow” over the destruction of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. “It is time for the European Union…
Residents of Moria have placed their vehicles and other items in the middle of the road to prevent the passage of machinery to the recently burnt down migrant camp that had brought…
Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi said that refugee camps have been decongested by 38% compared with January 2020, during an interview on ERT1 on Tuesday. He clarified that some of the…
Greek authorities are preparing for the possible second wave of illegal immigrants at the Greek-Turkish border. In March this year, Turkey attempted to asymmetrically invade Greece with the use of tens of…
Cypriot authorities have raised alarm bells after four boats carrying Syrian and Lebanese migrants arrived in waters of Cyprus within a 48-hour span. According to police, a total of 123 migrants are…
Greek Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis said that authorities have prevented more than 10,000 migrants from entering Greece clandestinely by sea so far this year, despite a recent lack of cooperation from the…
Renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis made a statement about the current tension in Greek-Turkish relations. In the statement published on Friday, Theodorakis said he accepts that in the distant past he was…
The construction of a fence running along a section of the Greek-Turkish land border in Evros will be completed in eight months, Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis announced in Parliament on Monday.…
From February 28 to August 3 this year, over 60,000 illegal immigrants were prevented from entering Greece from the Evros area on the Greek-Turkish border region. A total of 61,508 people, as…
The President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, accompanied by Migration and Asylum Minister, Notis Mitarachi and the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Greece, Stella Ronner-Grubačić, visited the new health unit at the Reception…
Seventeen of the thirty-eight illegal immigrants who landed at a beach in the area of Plomari in Lesvos last week, have tested positive for coronavirus. The announcement was made by the municipality…
The number of migrants hosted on the Greek islands fell by 29.6% in July in comparison with January 1, 2020, the migration and asylum ministry announced on Friday. Migration and Asylum Minister…
On Thursday, 140 Iraqi nationals will voluntarily return home on a charter flight, the Migration & Asylum Ministry announced. One requirement is that they must be tested for the novel coronavirus before the…