Eerie Photos Show the Aftermath of a Rapidly Evacuated Refugee Camp Max Bearak, The Washington Post 26 May, 2016 Over the course of the past two days the population of the makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni, on Greece's northern border with Macedonia, went from about 8,000 to zero. Aid workers and photographers have been publishing photos of the forced eviction -- Greek authorities have been trying to close the camp for months and transfer its inhabitants

E.U. Migrant Proposals Aim to Overhaul Asylum Rules James Kanter, The New York Times 06 April 2016   Image: Migrants on the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday. CreditPetros Giannakouris/Associated Press     BRUSSELS — Days after a wave of deportations of migrants arriving in Europe from Turkey, the European Union’s executive arm proposed a new quota system for members accepting asylum seekers to ease the burden on the nations confronted

Violence Erupts in Greece as Migrants Try to Cross Into Macedonia Liz Alderman and Dimitris Bounias, The New York Times 29 February 2016   Image: Riots erupted on the Greek border with Macedonia on Monday after the Macedonian authorities sealed the frontier to prevent refugees from entering. Credit Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images           ATHENS — It was a scene of a type that could become

Mapped: The Refugee Crisis in the Aegean Sea Siobhan O'grady, Foreign Policy  25 January 2016   Over the past two years, rickety boats and inflatable rafts filled to the brim with migrants and asylum-seekers braving the Mediterranean Sea have become synonymous with the refugee crisis that now threatens to tear the European Union apart. Since 2014, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, a charity that launches search and rescue missions off European

Greece’s new prime minister wants Germany to pay for Nazi war crimes Washington Post 26 January 2015   After the seismic victory of Greece’s leftist Syriza party in national polling Sunday, the country’s new prime minister, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, is leading all of Europe down an uncertain path. Syriza has vowed to renegotiate the crippling debts saddled on the Greek economy by European lenders — a move that some fear could threaten

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="226"] BBC[/caption]   A country profile for Greece is being updated and will appear on the Country Profile page of Greece as soon as possible.

 Greece ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Farm foremen arrested over shooting of migrant workers in Greece Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou, editing by Harry Papachristou and Angus MacSwan, Reuters UK 19 April 2013 Police on Friday arrested three foremen at a Greek strawberry farm on suspicion that they shot and wounded more than 20 migrant farmers who were protesting

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