migration policy

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

Greece has frequently been at the epicenter of European attention in different fields. The outbreak of the debt crisis in 2009 and the risk of Greece to leave the Eurozone and cause a systemic domino effect, for instance, heavily influenced European economic governance. In difficult times for the national economy, it was the role of […]

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

The news story broke as part of an exclusive by CBS News in the US, and has not been independently confirmed by Greek authorities

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 […]

The Greek premier made it clear in his statements that guarding its borders is non-negotiable for Greece

The political agreement includes a mechanism to ensure solidarity and measures to support member-states experiencing unprecedented flows of third-country nationals. Special attention is given to countering the instrumentalization of migrants

Specifically, 262 MPs voted in favor, with ND MPs joined by opposition deputies from SYRIZA, PASOK, KKE and New Left parties. Deputies of the right-of-center Elliniki Lysi (Hellenic Solution), Niki and Spartiates parties voted against.

The draft bill would allow illegal migrants residing in Greece to become legal residents after three years instead of current five

A year before the end of the mandate, we met European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas at his second home, the press room, in front of the stage where in 2015 he had to fight diplomatically for his country when Greece was about to be kicked out of the Eurozone. He stresses to “To Vima” […]

The European Commission also presented legislation to reinforce its current legal framework on migrant smuggling

The head of the presidential directorate of communication spoke to "Ta Nea" less than two weeks before Recep Tayyip Erdogan returns to Athens for a working visit

The EU will put forth more proposals next week to combat human trafficking, a global industry estimated at 6bln euro annually

The two parties met in Brussels yesterday as part of the Turkey-EU High Level Dialogue on Migration and Security

PM Mitsotakis will spend two days in Berlin meeting with Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, Charles Michel, amongst others

For months the Greek, Italian and Cypriot authorities had been struggling to catch a high-speed boat that regularly trafficked migrants from Turkey and Lebanon