Greece is making plans to accommodate refugees for longer periods, estimating the refugee crisis will last up to three years and with thousands of people stranded in the country, Greek migration minister Yannis Mouzalas said on Wednesday.
Greece was taking "all the measures as if borders have closed for good by activating a Plan B to deal with the refugee emergency," Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said on Sunday.
Protesters marched to the Evros river fence at the border between Greece and Turkey on Sunday demanding that it will be demolished to open a safe, legal passage to Europe for the desperate refugees and migrants who risk their lives to enter the EU.
A year ago on the Jan. 25 national elections in Greece, the Radical Left SYRIZA party achieved a historic victory assuming office for first time in the country's modern history with the promise to end austerity and bailouts.
Eight people were killed and 42 others injured Friday when a bus carrying illegal refugees overturned in western Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.
For the first time in decades, Greek Cypriots celebrated Epiphany on the northern side of ethnically-split Cyprus on Wednesday, as momentum builds for a possible breakthrough this year in peace talks.
In the final stretch of a turbulent year trapped in acute double crises, the five-year debt issue and the escalating refugee crisis as of early 2015, more hard work seems to be awaiting Greece in 2016.
French President Francois Hollande started a two-day official visit to Greece on Thursday, voicing a clear message of support to efforts to pull the country out of the six-year debt crisis and back on the path to economic growth.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras presented his left-led government's four-year policy program on Monday, pledging the full and swift implementation of reforms and commitments undertaken under the third bailout agreed with international lenders this summer.
After five years in the international spotlight due to the debt crisis, Greece found itself in a protagonist role in another drama of cross-border dimensions this summer.
Greece's top judge, Supreme Court President Vassiliki Thanou became the first female Prime Minister in the history of the country on Thursday ahead of Greece heading to snap elections in September.
The President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos handed on Monday the third and last exploratory mandate to form a government by the current parliament to Panagiotis Lafazanis, the leader of the newly formed Leftist Popular Union party which rejects the third bailout and supports the return to drachma.
Greece's government announced on Tuesday the finalization of the sale of operation rights for 14 regional airports to the German Fraport-Slentel consortium over the next four decades. The deal was the first privatization to be concluded under the new third bailout that was ratified by the Greek parliament last Friday.
Greece's third bailout agreement since 2010 was submitted to parliament on Wednesday for ratification in coming days in a new race against time to unlock the first tranche of international aid to meet a repayment deadline on Aug. 20.
Greek government sealed on Tuesday the country's third bailout deal within five years with international lenders, it was announced in Athens.
Following the worst day in Greece's stock market history in 28 years with a drop of 16.23 percent on Monday, the Athens Stock Exchange closed down 1.22 percent on Tuesday with banking index down around 30 percent.
Greece's cabinet reshuffle aimed at finalizing in coming weeks the debt deal on a third bailout with international creditors received mixed reactions in Athens on Saturday.
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