Canapes not required.
EpicStockMedia
Tents and food parcels are one thing, ready-built accommodation is another.
A child plays in the Kara Tepe camp close to Mytilene on Lesbos island.
Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters
Perceptions of hordes of refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos have damaged tourism. But the refugees are dignified people, not beggars. An initiative is needed to bring tourists back to the island.
A very different approach to the migration crisis.
Vicki Squire
A group of activists is seeking to build a special community as an alternative response to the so-called migration crisis.
Some fear that Chinese investment will lead to a painful trade-off between Ukraine’s desperate economic needs and its long-standing democratic dream.
Sasha Maksymenko/flickr
Ukraine desperately needs Chinese investment but, like many other countries in this position, this is giving rise to concerns about the consequences for its fragile democracy.
Refugees protest in central Athens at evictions of squats in Thessaloniki.
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
Greek authorities have clamped down on migrants trying take control of their destiny.
Hulk who?
Drinks Machine
Dig into the details of the ancient Olympics and you find a lot of misinformation, but also a surprising amount in common with the modern games.
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Researchers at a fertility clinic in Athens appear to have reversed the menopause in a small group of women – but will the science stand up to scrutiny?
The fragmented remains of the Antikythera mechanism.
Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
A bronze artefact rescued from a Greek shipwreck could hold the secrets of the universe.
Austrian Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer took the far right to the brink of victory in the recent election.
Reuters
Radical right populists are on the brink of power in Austria and making gains across the region. And the European leaders who once were willing to publicly condemn them are silent now.
In the waiting line.
Knut Bry
The number of refugees crossing the Aegean has dropped in recent months, but thousands are still stuck on a Greek island.
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It’s lunacy to believe you own the moon, so why is cultural heritage any different? The Parthenon sculptures at least belong together.
Enough scaremongering.
nito
There is good reason to fear Brexit, but voting to stay in the EU is also a chance to restore the vision of the founding fathers.
Syrian asylum seekers at a camp in Lesvos, Greece.
EPA
A Syrian asylum seeker has been permitted to stay in Greece on the grounds that Turkey is not safe for return. It could be a major blow for the EU’s controversial refugee strategy.
Greece needs genuine European support.
EPA/Alexandros Vlachos
Economic sense has been largely irrelevant in the unfolding Greek drama. Instead, morality has been at its heart.
Moria detention camp on Lesvos.
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
A report from Lesbos, where thousands of refugees are living in inhumane conditions.
Will Padilla’s pleas to Washington go unanswered?
Alvin Baez/Reuters
The island, which missed a debt payment earlier this month, faces ‘disastrous’ consequences if a solution to its spiraling crisis isn’t found soon.
Riot police on the streets of Athens in early May.
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
A Brexit would be a chance to actually create a European project – but the EU needs to be dismantled first.
Victoria Canning
Researchers explain how tolerance in Turin’s Olympic village is helping refugees to help themselves.
EPA/Armando Babani
Greece is facing two major migration problems. As thousands of migrants arrive, Greece’s young professionals are on the way out.
EU leaders are to send refugees back to Turkey.
EPA/Yannis Kolesidis
If this cruel proposal is all EU leaders can produce in response to mass human suffering, perhaps it’s not a union worth saving.