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“Chaos” is the word to describe the situation on the island of Kos with images of violence between undocumented migrants and the outnumbered Greek police doing the rounds on the international media.

Greece’s Deputy Immigration Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou said that Greek authorities were planning to create 2,500 positions to host immigrants by the end of 2015.

Greece’s relevant migration minister on Monday promised to establish camps for refugees and undocumented migrants that have continued to slip into Greece by the thousands since the beginning of the year, while also dismissing concerns the phenomenon has for the crisis-plagued country’s image as a tourism destination.

Coast guard officials intercepted more than 400 undocumented immigrants on several islands in the eastern Aegean within 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday as authorities on Lesvos appealed to the central government for support as the relentless flow of arrival fuels tensions and overwhelms local services and infrastructure.

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

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.