A humanitarian volunteer from Ireland who was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking in Greece last year remains in legal limbo and still faces a possible prison sentence of 25 years.

An open letter to European leaders, written by Christos Christou, MSF International President.

A humanitarian volunteer from Ireland who was earlier this year arrested on suspicion of human trafficking in Greece has been reunited with his mother for Christmas.

A CORK man who was incarcerated in Greece on suspicion of human trafficking and espionage has been released on bail after an agonising 106 days in jail.

Supporters of a Cork aid volunteer, held in a Greek jail over allegations of helping illegal migrants enter Greece, are to hold demonstrations in five cities next Saturday to call for his release.

The aunt of a Cork aid worker held on people-trafficking charges in Greece has said the family thought at first his arrest was a joke.

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Stuck in unsanitary camps and a bureaucratic nightmare, asylum-seekers live in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, say Yanis Varoufakis and George Tyrikos-Ergas.

WHEN Michel Barnier next engages with David Davis, his British counterpart for Brexit negotiations, he might have the humility to acknowledge that not everything is right with the EU and that a lot of work needs to be done if it is to become a union of independent states that we can all be proud of – with or without the UK.

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Nobody will come to you even if you’re sick, nobody will come to your room to ask are you ok, writes Victoria White

Earlier this year The Reelists, an Irish documentary and commercial video company, travelled to Greece to film at the refugee camps of Lesvos and Athens.

In a refugee camp outside Athens, Victoria White meets people fleeing the horrors of war in Syria, but who still try to live a normal life, including a young woman who has just married    

Victoria White reports from Skaramagas refugee camp, west of Athens, home to 2,800 refugees who fled fighting in Syria but now fear that their hopes of starting life afresh in the West will never be realised

Some 668 migrants were saved from boats in distress in the Mediterranean off Libya today, officials say.

For Nour Essa, one of the Syrian refugees who flew out of Lesbos on Pope Francis’ plane last week, it was a choice tinged with shock, joy and sadness — and it had to be made immediately.

Up to 500 migrants may have drowned last week in the Mediterranean when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink, the UN refugee agency said.

President Michael D Higgins has challenged Europe’s response to the refugee crisis, asking if it will be defined by barbed wire, tear gas, and rubber bullets.

The EU’s refugee deal with Turkey is already causing confusion and fear among asylum-seekers and authorities alike, write Tania Karas and Lauren Bohn from the Greek island of Lesbos

The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey in a drive to shut down the main route by which a million people fleeing war and poverty crossed the Aegean Sea in the last year.

Greek authorities say the 202 migrants and refugees who had not applied for asylum in Greece and were returned to Turkey included people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Congo.

Police on the Greek island of Lesbos have begun placing migrants and refugees on boats heading to Turkey, the first to be deported under an EU plan to limit the amount of migration to Europe.

Hours before Greece was due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, little sign of preparation was evident on Lesbos, the island through which hundreds of thousands of people have poured into Europe since last year.

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Greece is pressing ahead with plans to start deporting migrants and refugees back to Turkey next week, despite mounting concern from the UN and human rights organisations that Syrians could be denied proper protection.

Monitors from Turkey have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to help supervise an agreement aimed at limiting the number of refugees and migrants travelling to the European Union.

The EU plan to deal with migrants is a masterpiece that seeks to bridge the largely domestic fears of intransigent politicians in the EU and Turkey, writes Ann Cahill Europe Correspondent

European Union leaders have pressed Turkey to take back thousands of migrants and prevent others from setting off for Europe. But will that really offer a solution, asks Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent

Doctor Thorne, from Julian Fellowes, begins on UTV Ireland tomorrow at 9pm, starring Rebecca Front, Tom Hollander, Ian McShane and Stefanie Martini.

Authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 36 migrants who drowned off Turkey after their boats overturned in rough waters as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, said authorities.

The present Government’s attempt to define the coming together of two adults of the same sex with the intention of living together for the purposes of sexual activity as “marriage” is flawed an injurious to the Constitutional meaning of the family for at least the following reasons:

AS if to remind delegates at the two-day summit of African and European leaders in Malta that it was called because 800 refugees drowned when a rogue ship sank, at least 14 more people, including seven children, desperately trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, drowned yesterday when a boat sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast. Hopefully, the symbolism will bring a greater sense of realism to these deliberations.