Approximately 15,000 people on Greek islands are waiting for a government decision on their migration request. The governor of the islands in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea blames the endless official procedure and the shortage of civil servants.
The Greek government gets thousands of migrants from the camps on some islands in the Aegean Sea. By order of the Ministry of the Interior, 250 people have been picked up by boat on the island of Lesbos and taken to the port of Piraeus.
The European Union does its utmost to prevent migrants stuck on Greek islands from being exposed to winter conditions again. 'We can not repeat last year,' said EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (Migration) in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
Greece, along with the organization that has been monitoring the EU's external borders (Frontex), has returned 71 migrants to Turkey since Wednesday. The returned refugees came from the islands of Chios, Lesbos and Kos.
The Greek Coast Guard met on Friday night a refugee who wanted to land in a striking way. The refugee from Algeria had hid in a suitcase of a refugee from Iraq.
It's what search kneuterig less than decorate Easter eggs and branches. In Greece keep two rival churches traditionally a battle where fireworks by shooting each other home-made firework rockets.
Despite the icy winter weather and the sometimes strong winds since early this year, 337 refugees and migrants by boat daring to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands. Just on Tuesday, 41 people arrived on the island of Kos.
The number of refugees trying to reach from Turkey over the Aegean Sea Greece, last month increased slightly. But of a large influx has been up to now no question.
Vacationers are inconvenienced by the fires that ravage the Greek holiday island of Chios.
On the Greek island of Chios raging since Monday morning a fire fueled by strong winds, extreme heat and drought. The places Lithi, Elata and Mesta have been evacuated as a precaution in the southwest of the island, local media reported.
Greece on Thursday thirteen people from the island of Chios returned to Turkey. The group had applied for asylum. They are a device that had chartered the European border guards to Frontex, flew to Adana in southeastern Turkey.
In a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios erupted Monday riots. Dozens of migrants stakes bins and tents on fire. A firefighter suffered minor injuries. The police eventually managed to calm the migrants, said an officer of the Coast Guard on Tuesday.
The Greek Coast Guard has since early this week already plucked from the sea six migrants from the Greek island of Chios wanted to swim to Turkey. It was about five Moroccans and an Algerian in Greece did not win a residence permit.
Thirteen applicants were sent back Monday by mistake from Greece to Turkey. The migrants did not apply for asylum had the opportunity, The Guardian writes on the UNHCR's authority.
Today there will be no boats leave from the Greek islands to bring back refugees to Turkey. According to the governor of the islands of Chios and Lesvos, Christiana Kalogirou, all refugees who now claimed the islands hastily asylum in Greece.
Definitely five hundred refugees and migrants are Friday escaped from a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios and towed to the port. They want from there by boat to the port of Piraeus, which is close to Athens.
When fighting in a migrant camp in the Greek port of Piraeus are Friday least eight people injured. Syrians and Afghans went together according to eyewitnesses, three hours to attack, the BBC reports.
The arrival of refugees by sea also remains early in 2016 continue. The Greek coast guard discovered the bodies of four refugees in the Aegean within 24 hours. The finds were made near the island Fournoi, as reported by the Greek coastguard with Monday.
About 3,600 refugees are transferred Thursday to mainland Greece. These are people who crossed in recent days from Turkey to islands such as Samos, Chios and Lesvos. Most come from Syria and want to western Europe.
Six children of Afghan refugees have Tuesday off the Turkish coast drowned when the dinghy they were in sank. The boat was coming from the Turkish coastal town of Çesme en route to Greece. Which reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
Five Greek ferries have Tuesday morning put a total of more than 6,000 migrants in the ports of Piraeus and Kavala ashore. A majority of these people wants to travel to Western Europe, reported the Greek radio.
The Greek Coast Guard has rescued the last 24 hours more than 1,100 refugees from the Aegean Sea. In the islands of Lesbos , Leros, Chios , Samos, Kos Farmakonisi and rescuers had to come into action to get people out of the water .
The Greek port of Piraeus within twelve hours received 12 000 refugees on the quays. Ferries brought Tuesday 7000 migrants who came from the islands of Lesbos and Chios . Wednesday morning there were another 5000 people who were picked up at the North Aegean islands.
