Greece

Greek leader calls for greater EU involvement on migration

11:19 pm September 13, 2020

Athens: Greece’s prime minister demanded Sunday that the European Union take a greater responsibility for managing migration into the bloc, as Greek authorities promised that 12,000 migrants and asylum-seekers left homeless after fire gutted an overcrowded camp would be moved shortly to a new tent city. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis blamed some residents at the Moria camp on the […]

Greece: Fire sweeps through refugee camp on virus lockdown

3:03 pm September 9, 2020

Athens: Fire swept through Greece’s largest refugee camp that had been placed under COVID-19 lockdown, leaving more than 12,000 migrants in emergency need of shelter on the island of Lesbos on Wednesday. In dramatic scenes overnight, the migrants at Moria refugee camp fled fires that broke out at multiple points and gutted much of the camp and […]

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Greece: Construction begins on major development project

1:59 pm July 3, 2020

Athens: Greece’s prime minister on Friday inaugurated the start of construction work on a long-delayed major development project at the prime seaside site of the old Athens airport. Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the start of work as a major step in the implementation of what he described as “possibly the largest project in the Mediterranean.” After his brief speech on-site, […]

PM Johnson’s father flies to Greece despite ban

7:29 pm July 2, 2020

London: The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing criticism for travelling to Greece despite UK government advice against international travel and a Greek ban on flights from Britain. Stanley Johnson posted videos on Instagram taken from a plane with the words “Arriving in Athens this evening!” as well as a photo of himself in a mask in what appeared to be an […]

Italy enters strict 3-day lockdown over Easter

28 newly rescued migrants test positive for virus off Italy

8:41 pm June 24, 2020

Rome: Twenty-eight migrants who were rescued at sea have tested positive for the coronavirus, Sicily’s governor said Wednesday, suggesting a new complication in Italy’s efforts to manage waves of migrants smuggled across the Mediterranean from Libya. The positive tests represent the largest cluster yet among newly arrived migrants, after a handful of positive cases were recorded among […]