Greece Macedonia Border

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  Greek Police Move Migrants From Macedonia Border Camp

  Greek police on Monday began moving out migrants from a makeshift camp at Polykastro on the border with Macedonia, a local police official told Agence France-Presse.

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  Migrants Seek New Routes Into Balkans After Formal Borders Sealed

  After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, clambering through forests and over hills under the cover of darkness.

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  How Europe Built Fences To Keep People Out

  In early March, Europe's migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos squelched through a muddy refugee camp on Greece's border with Macedonia and peered through the barbed-wire topped fence that stands between tens of thousands of migrants in Greece and richer countries that lie to the north.

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  Greece To Employ Loudspeakers At Border After Rumour Chaos

  Greece said today it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants' camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel "irresponsible rumours" that the border is about to reopen.

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  Migrants Flood To Greek Camp After Rumours Border Will Be Forced Open

  Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumours that the closed frontier would be forced open.

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  Greece Starts Emptying Border Camp As New Arrivals Slow

  Greece said Saturday it has begun emptying the main migrant camp on its Macedonia border, as the huge tide of refugees flooding into the country slows to a trickle following the EU-Turkey deal.

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  Refugee Protests At Border, Islands: Greece

  Refugees and migrants in Greece staged protest today at the country's border with Macedonia and on islands near the Turkish coast, with officials still unsure when an international agreement to reduce migration will take full effect.

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  Greek Migration Minister Under Fire For Saying 'Macedonia'

  As thousands of migrants languish on Greece's border with Macedonia following the closure of the Balkans route to western Europe, Athens has been gripped by another controversy -- what ministers call its neighbour to the north.

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  Macedonia Sends Over 1,000 Migrants Back To Greece

  Some 1,500 migrants who managed to cross into Macedonia, despite the border being closed to them for a week, have been sent back to Greece by Macedonian troops, officials said Tuesday.

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  Greece Steps Up Efforts To Move Migrants To Sheltered Camps

  Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with one person in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.

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  Greece Steps Up Efforts To Move Migrants To Sheltered Camps

  Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with two people in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.

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  Migrants Stuck In Greek Makeshift Camp Vow To Stay Put

  Refugees and migrants stranded at Greece's border with Macedonia vowed to stay put on Tuesday, hours after the European Union and Turkey hailed a tentative accord to stop a scramble by hundreds of thousands of people to reach Europe from war zones.

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  Migrants Try To Storm Greece-Macedonia Border Fence

  Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounted over barriers to entry imposed on migrants.

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  6,500 Refugees Stuck On Greek-Macedonian Border, 300 Let In

  Thousands of refugees are stuck on Greece's border with Macedonia, overflowing from a packed camp into the surrounding fields, as they wait for Macedonian authorities to let them continue their trek through the Balkans.

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  400 Refugees Leave Greek Camp, Prefer To Walk To Border

  Hundreds of migrants and refugees left an accommodation camp in northern Greece today, preferring to walk to the distant border with Macedonia in a bid to continue their trek to northern Europe, local police said.