Dimitris Keridis

Two children were among the 18 people burned in a forest fire in the northeast of the country, an official has confirmed.

Pavlos Pavlidis, coroner in the city of Alexandroupoli, conducted an initial inspection at the site where the charred remains were found, south of the village of Avantas.

Migration Minister Dimitris Keridis said he learned "with great sadness of the deaths of at least 18 migrants in the fire in the Dadia forest."

Eighteen burned bodies were found on Tuesday in a rural area in the northeast of the country where wildfires have been burning out of control for a fourth day.

Greek Migration Minister Dimitris Keridis was on his first visit to the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos since being appointed on Tuesday, touring migrant and refugee camps and meeting with local officials.

Greece's new minister for migration said Monday he would consider it "unthinkable" for the European Union to pull out its border protection force from the country, and promised to address a growing list of international grievances over dealing with migrants.

The new migration minister promised Tuesday to continue a "strict but fair" policy toward migration and attempts at illegal entry into the country, following conservative New Democracy's sweeping re-election victory.

"We are humanitarians but not naïve," the new minister, Dimitris Keridis, told reporters hours after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' new government was sworn in.

New Democracy deputy Dimitris Keridis is organizing a live online debate titled "The Economic Crisis of the Pandemic: More or less Europe?" to take place at 9 p.m. on Monday, with the participation of New Democracy MEP Marietta Giannakou, Athens University of Economics and Business professor Giorgos Pagoulatos, and London Business School professor Elias Papaioannou.

Panteion University professor and New Democracy MP Dimitris Keridis will present an online public debate at 9 p.m. on Monday titled "After the Crisis: Public Health, Economy, Politics - Speaking to the Experts," featuring professors Stathis Kalyvas, Elias Mossialos and Panagiotis Tsakloglou.

Israel's Foreign Ministry director-general Yuval Rotem will visit Athens Wednesday for talks with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and other officials, the Israeli embassy announced.