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Exclusive: Police clash with refugee camp residents on Samos, Greece

Police fired warning shots and used tear gas, they "beat up" some of those demonstrating, an NGO told Euronews.

World

Greece's economy on the up but not everyone is feeling the benefits

Months after Greece left behind the bailout programmes, many of its citizens still don't feel a change in their daily lives.

Greece

Greek undertaker gets creative with coffins in election campaign

Undertaker Konstantinos Baboulas hands out coffin-shaped car air fresheners and has campaign posters resembling public funeral announcements. He says his job has taught him valuable lessons which he can adapt to politics.

Greece

Watch: Diving club volunteers saving migrants off Greece

"When we go to help refugees and find dead children, in their eyes we see the souls and eyes of our own children,” said diver Stelios Hatziandreou.

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Greece

Inside the migrants' jungle in Samos

A former political science lecturer and civil rights activist, Sarah fled Uganda where her security was at risk. She has been surviving in the so-called migrants "jungle" on the greek island of Samos for 8 months. She takes us on a tour of what she calls hell on earth.

World

Stateless in Europe: 'I was never given the chance to feel European'

Second-generation migrants who are living as stateless citizens in Greece have claimed they have no say in their own future, ahead of the European elections.

Greece

Environmental restoration of Lake Karla revives Greek wildlife and locals

The environmental restoration of Lake Karla in Greece's Thessaly plain is recreating an ancient ecosystem, and reviving wildlife and local communities

Europe News

EU election’s cross-border candidates

European politicians have also chosen to run in other countries

World News

'Masked men beat us': Greece accused of violent asylum pushbacks

Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews.

My Europe Series

Migrants and Greeks in Samos share anger and despair

Samos is less than two kilometres away from the Turkish coast and it's one of several so-called "hotspots" for asylum seekers on the Greek islands of the north Aegean Sea.

World

Migrants increasingly risk lives arriving in Greece by river or sea

Migrants put their lives on the line trying to get from Turkey to Greece, crossing by boat to the Greek city of Alexandropouli, Greece, or crossing the Evros river on the border to make it to Europe. Euronews correspondents Fay Doulgkeri and Bryan Carter report.

Greece

Watch: Abandoned bear cubs Bradley and Cooper prepare for life in wild

The duo will be bottle fed by sanctuary workers until they've learned to forage in the forest, after being abandoned by their mother.

Republic of North Macedonia

What’s next for North Macedonia? | Euronews Answers

What’s next for North Macedonia? Euronews Answers what lies ahead for the Republic of North Macedonia which elected a pro-European president on Sunday.

Poland

Thousands take part in March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew led thousands in annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau to honour Holocaust victims

Greece

Watch: Greeks 'burn Judas' in ancient Orthodox Easter tradition

Boats circle a straw figure of the Biblical traitor before setting it alight. The tradition dates back several centuries but in some places has only been brought back in the last few decades.

World

Road Trip Europe Day 30: Greek voters focused on local issues

The team concluded that the Greek voters they spoke to feel the European Union is too remote, especially in the wake of the financial crisis that they have endured.

World

Road Trip Europe Day 29 Thessaloniki: 'We can’t dream here'

On the next stop of our road trip, Euronews Correspondents Bryan Carter and Fay Doulgkeri visit a university to speak to students about the upcoming European elections.

World

Road Trip Europe Day 28 Larissa: 'Without funding, no crops can grow'

Correspondents Bryan Carter and Fay Doulgkeri have set off on the next leg of Euronews' road trip, speaking to Greek farmers to find out what impact EU subsidies have on local agriculture.

World

Road Trip Europe Day 27: The effects of Greece's financial crisis

Our correspondents Bryan Carter and Fay Doulgeri have set off on the next leg of Euronews' Road Trip ahead of the EU election in May. They have arrived to Metsovo in Greece where they have been asking people if they feel any improvement in their lives since the crisis that hit nearly 10 years ago.

World

Road Trip Europe Day 26 Taranto: 'You don't sleep anymore'

The final story on the Italian leg of our Road Trip comes from Taranto, where Europe’s biggest steel plant covers the city in a fine toxic dust.