Migration Crisis

Mitsotakis is also said to advocate for EU agreements with third countries to facilitate migrant returns.

According to reports, approximately 31 individuals were on board the vessel, with 27 of them finally rescued.

Media reports on Tuesday: 17 European nations, including Greece, call for new laws to achieve 'effective returns' to deal with irregular migrant issue

Unanswered questions and strange coincidences surrounding the death of 37-year-old Muhammad Kamran Ashiq from Pakistan

According to Eurostat data, in the second quarter of 2024, 96 115 third-country nationals were ordered to leave an EU country and 25 285 people returned to third countries after being ordered to do so.

Germany hosts the world's fourth-largest refugee population and leads the EU in asylum seekers. Will the new German border control measures truly ease migratory pressures, or are they merely political optics?

Angeliki Dimitriadi, Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, argues that Germany's border policy is driven by political concerns but also aims to curb secondary migration and reduce refugee benefits.

Greece fears other countries could follow the lead of Germany and start implementing a similar deportation policy for asylum seekers

According to media reports, Berlin ordered the temporary tightening of controls at all borders - including with Schengen members - in a crackdown on illegal migration

Beyond citing 'red lines' dealing with sovereignty, Minister George Gerapetritis added that Athens satisfied with course of rapprochement

Speedboat loaded with migrants detected near Symi while trying to approach the Greek isle; craft's pilot reported as the fatality

It also hopes to bring experienced border guards from Finland and Germany and get more EU and NATO support for protecting its borders

The Greek premier's visit is part of a series of scheduled meetings to ministries where leadership changed in the recent reshuffle

Migration, human trafficking and terrorism are at the heart of the agencies' not-so-secret collaboration

The Council adopted 10 legislative acts that reform the European framework for asylum and migration management.

Countries don’t have to accept to receive refugees, but if they don’t, they will pay 20,000 euros per person to finance operational support

He also cited the illegal migration problem now faced by Cyprus as a result of turmoil in the Middle East

As Greece has launched another major regularisation programme for undocumented immigrants, a comparison with France’s 1981 similar initiative provides us with insights. Drawing a parallel between the two programmes offers a crucial lens to raise questions about the effectiveness and unintended long-term consequences of such policies based on the lessons learned from the French experience. […]

On January 23 2024, during the joint press conference following the EU-Egypt Association Council, the European Union’s neighborhood commissioner Olivér Várhelyi declared that the EU had entered a “golden age” of relations with Egypt. A Comprehensive and Strategic Partnership is in the works. The partnership will be based on six pillars of “mutual interest”: political […]

Smugglers increasingly use so-called “south route” that commences from North Africa coast and aims for Greece or Italy