asylum seeker

The European Parliament has marginally passed the wide-reaching reform of the European Union's migration and asylum policy, which was preceded by uncertainty due to the growing voices of rejection from both the left and right. "We have listened, we have...

A woman and her three children went missing after a boat carrying several Turkish asylum seekers capsized in the Evros River along the Turkey-Greece border on Wednesday. Speaking to Turkish media, the children's father, Murat Akcabay, said that there had...

Asylum applications in Greece increased by 15 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, according to the AIDA Report on Greece for 2017, presented by the Hellenic Council for Refugees on Friday. According to the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) of the...

Although no official announcement has been made yet, NGOs working with migrants and refugees in the Greek islands say they have been assured that 5,000 asylum seekers will be moved to the Greek mainland. The government intends to transfer 5,000...

The Greek government, with the support of EU leaders, should act now before the onset of winter to end Greece’s “containment policy,” twelve human rights and humanitarian organizations -Amnesty International among them-, said in a campaign that began today. The...

The EU Court of Justice will decide on the dispute started by Hungary and Slovakia, which oppose the legitimacy of the quotas plan for the reception of tens of thousands of asylum seekers in the EU. The plan was launched...

The extradition request from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) of Dejan Vucovic will be discussed in Greece's supreme court on Wednesday. Vucovic is seeking asylum in Greece saying he fears for his life if he returns to his...

According to the AP, Greece's Coast Guard has rescued 59 migrants attempting to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to enter Greece in an inflatable plastic dinghy in rough seas. The migrants were apparently trying to reach the Greek island...

Reuters revealed that the European Commission is planning to propose a plan for the relocation of 40,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in Greece and Italy over the last years to various countries across Europe. The reason behind the proposal is...

Greece's Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has earlier today decorated an army sergeant of the Hellenic Army, whose photos rescuing a young migrant from Eritrea following a deadly shipwreck on the island of Rhodes last week made headlines across the globe. Sergeant Antonis Deligiorgis was...