Villages evacuated, thousands made homeless and livelihoods destroyed as blazes continue to unsettle the nation.
![A resident of Ippokratios Politia, near Athens, tries to extinguish a fire [Nick Paleologos/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/%CE%91J_NP_11_Greece_Fires.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Nick Paleologos is an Athens-based photographer and journalist.
Villages evacuated, thousands made homeless and livelihoods destroyed as blazes continue to unsettle the nation.
![A resident of Ippokratios Politia, near Athens, tries to extinguish a fire [Nick Paleologos/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/%CE%91J_NP_11_Greece_Fires.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Tensions mount amid anti-refugee vigilantism, migrant-led protests and desperate government proposals to lower arrivals.

Faced with poverty and discrimination, residents of Belgium’s Molenbeek neighbourhood build their own alternatives.

At least 79 people were killed after forest fires erupted in villages outside of Athens.
![In Mati, many fled their cars and ran for the sea to try to escape the flames. By Tuesday morning, burned-out vehicles lined the coastal village. [Nick Paleologos/SOOC/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/8a96b0d8c09b4ff98a757e33462cea03_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Evidence presented at trial of 69 Golden Dawn members detail the close ties between police and the neo-fascist party.

With more than 62,000 refugees unable to move on, civil society and solidarity groups fill gap where the state fails.
![Khora refugee centre - [Nick Paleologos/SOOC/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ae5555d0e95b48c0887dff0f90f2ffe6_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Nearly 150 children are able to escape from the harsh conditions of refugee camps at the volunteer-run school in Chios.

A rapidly increasing number of refugees gather in Idomeni camp waiting for the Greece-Macedonia border to open.
