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Greece snubs Austrian minister's request to visit Athens

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Lesbos: Humanity in the midst of a tragedy

It’s seven in the morning and a boat full of Afghan refugees is approaching the shores of Lesbos’ Katia Beach. Teams of volunteers are ready to

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Greece fumes over Austria's 'hostile' migration policy

Austria’s tough stance on migration is undermining the EU’s response to the refugee crisis, Greece’s interior minister told euronews on Thursday

Austria

Greece recalls Vienna ambassador in migrant row

Greece recalled its ambassador in Vienna, the country’s foreign ministry said, after Austria excluded it from a meeting of Balkan states on Europe’s

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NATO agrees Aegean Sea mission

NATO will send ships to the Aegean Sea to combat people smuggling. The alliance overcame ongoing tensions between Greece and Turkey to agree a deal

Belgium

Migrant crisis: Warnings over EU survival as ministers meet

Amid fresh fears that the EU’s survival could be threatened by Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War Two, the bloc’s interior ministers

Greece

Migrant crisis: Greece will not be turned into a 'warehouse of souls,' says Tsipras

With migrant numbers stacking up in Greece, there’s tough talk from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He says Athens will block future European Union

Greece

How one Greek island has discovered the secret to longer life

On a 255 square kilometre sliver of land in the southeastern Aegean Sea, about 10 hours by boat from Athens, residents appear to defy death. For a

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Yanis Varoufakis and his plan to take on Europe - again

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis locked horns with the European establishment, and ultimately had to stand down. But now the bad boy of

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Migrants bussed back to Athens from border

Backlog impacts on the Greek capital as Athens stirs up a diplomatic row with Austria

Greece

Migrants resist as Greek police move to clear border 'bottleneck'

Greek police remove migrants from the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to try to clear a 'bottleneck' that's creating increasing tension.

Greece

The domino effect - new border controls leave migrants stuck in Greece

As more and more border controls are introduced amid Europe’s migrant crisis, dominoes are falling all the way to Greece. Around 800 Afghan migrants

Republic of North Macedonia

Fears of a bottleneck as Macedonian-Greek border restrictions tightened

Clashes broke out on Greece’s northern border as dozens of migrants attempted to tear down and climb over a fence into the Former Yugoslav Republic

Greece

FYROM blocks Afghan migrants at border

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has reportedly closed its southern frontier with Greece to Afghan migrants. Only Iraqis and Syrians are

Greece

Greece says it can now register all migrants.

Just hours before EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss migration, Athens announced the opening on Wednesday of four migrant reception centres on

Business Series

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary talks taxes on Greek visit

Budget airline Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary says the Greek government is taxing tourists too highly and has threatened to pull out of some Greek destinations if airport costs there rise too much.

World News

EC President Juncker dismisses plan to exclude Greece from Schengen

President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has dismissed proposals to exclude Greece from the open-border Schengen zone. This, he said, would

Hungary

Balancing act: Hungary treads a delicate line between Russia and the EU

Keeping a foot in both camps can be tricky. No-one knows that better than Viktor Orban, prime minister of EU-member Hungary, who visits Moscow on

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Migration crisis: Plan for reinforced border north of Greece

Visegrad group calls for new border fence north of Greece Plan B is response to chaotic EU migration policy Proposal could split Schengen zone

Greece

Lesbos opens new cemetery for refugee victims

A cemetery has been opened in Lesbos for refugees and migrants who have died trying to cross from Turkey. The overcrowded rubber and wooden boats