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A boat with refugees has sunk off the coast of the Greek island of Samos. Among the 14 bodies already found, there are at least four children. The boat hit the waves.

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.

About 250 migrants and refugees are Thursday from a rescue center on the Greek island of Samos broken. This was reported by a local radio station Friday.

Again there are refugees in the Aegean Sea drowned trying to sail to Greece. At least eleven people were killed Thursday when their boat capsized while attempting to reach the island of Samos. It has informed the Greek coast guard.

There are hundreds of people saved who crossed from Turkey with Aegean boats to reach Greece. Friday and Saturday, rescuers of the European border security Frontex organization rescued 363 migrants and refugees, the Greek coast guard reported Sunday.

A two-year-old boy drowned off the coast of the Greek island Agathonisi. The toddler is the first refugee victims of the new year.

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.

Certainly eleven refugees, including six children, were killed early Sunday when their boat capsized off the coast of the Greek island of Samos. Fifteen passengers were saved.

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 .