"When three-year-old children wash up dead, what is washed up is European culture. We must collectively assume the responsibility as a European family and not think that because [the problem] is in our neighbourhood, it should be solved by those that have it inside their back yard," former Greek premier and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with Euronews on Tuesday.

The caretaker government achieved a small miracle in its handling of migration flows, caretaker Interior Minister Antonis Manitakis commented on Tuesday. He noted that in just 15 days, the caretaker government had managed to register and safely channel an uncontrolled flow of some 29,000 arriving refugees in an atmosphere of humanity and solidarity, without elements of racism and xenophobia.

A member of the Mouzenidis Travel Group, Ellinair recorded successful results for the summer season with the overall occupancy of domestic routes exceeding 72 percent in just three months of operation, the company’s Commercial Manager Stavros Daliakas said during a special presentation last week in Thessaloniki, of the group’s new travel deals.