Moscovici: 'An exceptionally tough period for the Greek people' Greece has successfully completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth €61.9bn (£55bn; $70.8bn) to tackle its debt crisis. It was part of the biggest bailout in global financial history, totalling some €289bn, which will take the country decades to repay.

Survivors of the wildfires that have killed at least 74 people in Greece have described how they were forced into the sea by a blaze that "struck like a flamethrower".

A strong earthquake has struck off the Aegean coast of western Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos, with tremors felt in Istanbul and Athens. The epicentre of the 6.3 magnitude quake was 5km (3 miles) south of Plomari, a town on the coast of Lesbos, the US Geological Survey said.

For three years, thousands of Greeks stayed in refugee camps across the Middle East The influx of more than a million refugees and migrants to the Greek islands in the past year has stirred up difficult memories for a dwindling group who followed the same route during World War Two, but in reverse. As German and Italian troops occupied Greece, tens of thousands of people fled by sea to refugee cam

Thousands of stranded migrants are being evacuated from the makeshift Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border with Macedonia. Most are being taken to specially designed processing facilities some 80km (50 miles) south, near Greece's second city, Thessaloniki. Hundreds of riot police moved into the camp at dawn, but the authorities have stressed force will not be used. The Greek-Macedonia border w

The name Idomeni has become known around the world for being the unwanted home to more than 10,000 people, most from Syria and Iraq. The border village is now a sea of tents where conditions are squalid. Before the Macedonian authorities controversially shut the border, having built a 40km fence to keep them out, more than 1 million migrants had passed through Idomeni - a farming community normall

IDOMENI, Greece — Taha al-Ahmad’s family is sleeping in mud. His youngest daughter, age 1, lies beneath wet blankets, coughing inside their soggy tent. It has rained for days. Portable toilets are overflowing. Men burn firewood to stay warm. A drone circles overhead. Television trucks beam images of misery to the world. It is primeval, and surreal, this squalid, improvised border camp of 12,000 re

Macedonian police have fired tear gas at a crowd of migrants who destroyed a barbed-wire fence on the Greek border using a makeshift battering ram. TV footage showed migrants pushing against the fence at Idomeni in Greece, ripping away barbed wire. A section of fence was smashed open with a metal signpost. It is unclear if any migrants crossed the border. About 7,000 people are stuck on the Greek

Danny Savage explains the tense stand-off at the Idomeni gates. At the migrant camp at Idomeni, on the border between Greece and Macedonia, there is desperation in the air. "I am begging Macedonia to let us in," said a young Syrian man as he queued at the border gate. He had been standing in the rain for hours. The wire-mesh gate that every migrant and refugee has to pass through has been closed o

Macedonian border guards are on the look-out for fake travel documents Running in looping coils, razor-wire now stretches along part of Macedonia's border with Greece. At every border along the refugee trail, through Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, the welcome is cooling, the checks are getting tougher, and people are being turned back. Here at Idomeni t

Macedonia’s PM, Nikola Gruevski, said: ‘We are ready to discuss, to open dialogue with them, and to find some solution.’ Photograph: Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters

Alexis Tsipras: "The people gave a clear mandate for us to continue to battle in and out of the country" Greece's Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a "clear mandate" after winning a second general election in less than nine months. But he said Greeks faced a difficult road and recovery from financial crisis would only come through hard work. Syriza won just over 35%, slightly

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election. Mr Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls now a third bailout had been secured with European creditors. The election date is yet to be set but earlier reports suggested 20 September. Mr Tsipras will lead his leftist Syriza party into the polls, but h

Wolfgang Schaeuble demands trust based on respect for eurozone rules Wolfgang Schaeuble is well known for growling that eurozone rules must be obeyed - it is his signature tune in countless soundbites at EU crisis meetings. Germany's finance minister, 72, is a pillar of the ruling conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), one of the country's most experienced politicians. Above all, he has been a ro

A pro-EU demonstrator at Thessaloniki’s White Tower. The price of the deal is tax rises, spending cuts and siphoning off billions of euros of assets into a fund to reassure Greece’s creditors their bills will be paid. Photograph: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images A pro-EU demonstrator at Thessaloniki’s White Tower. The price of the deal is tax rises, spending cuts and siphoning off billions of eur

Donald Tusk: "After 17 hours of negotiations we have reached agreement" Eurozone leaders have agreed to offer Greece a third bailout, after marathon talks in Brussels. Amid one of the worst crises in the EU's history, the head of the European Commission said the risk of Greece leaving the eurozone had been averted. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that after a "tough battle", Greece had se