Koraki

In brief: More than 1,000 people arrived by sea to the Aegean islands this week; Vagiochori closes (officially on 2 November, but some people have been left with no alternative accommodation) 1. New arrivals by sea, 26 October-1 November 2018 2. Transfers from the islands 3. Detention centre populations 4. Combined land and sea arrivals to 25 October 2018 (land arrivals still using 31 August figure) 5. Mainland refugee population (‘confirmed’, as at 30 October & 1 November) 6

Greek national newspaper Kathimerini reports with outrage this morning that Radmila Sekerinska, the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Macedonia has called ‘Greek concerns’ about her state’s name are ‘laughable’. There are a couple of things to note. First, what she actually said was: ‘The next year is crucial. We need to show that there are developments – people do not expect everything to be solved tomorrow, but they expect progress because we have been stuck for