Tasia Christodoulopoulou

Coalition partner Independent Greeks said on Friday that it will not support the government?s citizenship bill unless there are changes to four articles.

Alternate Immigration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou told a parliamentary committee that the number of beneficiaries from the new bill foreseeing the granting of Greek citizenship for second-generation immigrants will be less than 100,000.

A new bill which would lead to some 100,000 second-generation immigrants being granted Greek citizenship was approved on Wednesday by a parliamentary committee ahead of a vote at the House?s plenary session expected next week.

The bill was backed by leftist SYRIZA, Potami, PASOK and Independent Greeks, despite objections by many in the ranks of the junior coalition partner.

The doubling of aid to Mediterranean countries to help with the rise in the number of undocumented migrants is one of the main things Greece can take away from Thursday?s European Union leaders? summit on the migration crisis, according to Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou.

Proto Thema's sources point to the historic La Mirage Hotel at Omonoia Square at the center of Athens being reopened for use as a refuge to house the hundreds of migrants sleeping in the great outdoors of the city center. The hotel overlooks the square where the city's homeless have camped out or are "sunning themselves" as Alt.

It was a sight that you don’t usually see on a news beat, yet here was the television reporter, microphone in one hand and a … baby in another, asking a politicians questions.

Greek mayors on Thursday promised to support the government?s emergency plan for dealing with an increased influx of immigrants as long as their contribution is funded by the state.

The government on Tuesday set out the basic axes of an emergency plan to deal with an increased influx of immigrants into the country.

Government spokesman Gavriil Sakellaridis on Tuesday afternoon first announced that the leftist Greek government intended to issue "travel documents" to Syrian refugees that have requested asylum in Greece, in the wake of a massive influx of irregular migrants over the last three months onto several Greek islands.

Greece has reached a critical point with regards to the strong wave of refugees and illegal immigrants. The local government has also demanded that Europe should provide the necessary assistance so that the problem can be solved.