European asylum rules allow refugees in Greece who have been separated from their families in Germany to apply to be reunited. Yet the German government has revealed that the majority of requests for family reunification continue to be rejected.
Greece has started sending back around 30 rejected asylum seekers a day to Turkey, said the Greek government on Monday.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accused Greece of deliberately depriving at least 140 children in the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos of adequate medical care for chronic, complex and life-threatening diseases.
More than 50,000 refugees are stuck on the Greek islands, living in appalling conditions. The situation is also impacting on the local population, who want change. Max Zander reports from Lesbos.
The EU and Turkey reached a so-called refugee deal in 2016 to prevent illegal migration. But new figures show that a tiny fraction of migrants are being returned to Turkey, while the EU is resettling significantly more.
Proposals to revive the "Sophia" naval mission with a focus on enforcing the UN weapons embargo on Libya have broken down, according to a German media report. Italy had expressed skepticism over the plan.
Since the start of this year, two people have died after being stabbed in the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the main reason for the surge in violence is the severe overcrowding of the camp, with just 2,800 places available for the more than 19,000 people living there.
Residents, business owners and officials on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios are holding a day of protests over migrant camps. Local authorities are demanding that Athens speed up transfers of migrants to the mainland.
Selma and her husband fled Iran with their two children more than a year ago. After becoming separated at the Greek border, they finally ended up in Germany -- but in two different cities. Now they are desperate to be reunited. This is Selma's story.
Greece and Serbia have discussed a plan to relocate about 100 unaccompanied migrant children currently in Greece to Serbia. The plan was agreed last month and will be carried out with the help of the UN.
The new Greek government has been accused of "incompetence" after it reinstated a separate ministry for migration. Still, the government says it will move ahead with its plans to replace current "open" camps like Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos -- despite protests on the Aegean islands.
On Friday, riots between African and Afghan migrants at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos broke out following the stabbing of a 20-year-old man from Yemen and the subsequent arrest of a 27-year-old Afghan. The incident was already the second death at Moria this year.