The temporary stay camp for refugees in Idomeni has been inundated, following the decision of FYROM to allow passage through the neutral zone only to Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans.

The authorities of Costa Rica seized a Syrian woman who arrived in this country using a Greek passport, said the country's Foreign Ministry.

"The things I saw in Skala Sykamnias are not a Greek problem. They are my personal problem as a European citizen, as a human being, as a politician of our common homeland of Europe," European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis said in statements on Thursday, while visiting the island of Lesvos in the northeast Aegean

President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos underlined the necessity of being united and giving the battle together on major issues and on national targets that do not depend on the changes of the government, at his meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday at the presidential mansion