Germany is signaling that migrant and asylum transfers to Greece could resume under the European Union's new migration framework, raising fresh questions only months after Athens declared it had cleared outstanding obligations from the previous system.
The issue has emerged...
Greece rescued hundreds of migrants in two separate incidents off its southernmost island of Gavdos in the early hours of Friday, authorities said.
A total of 545 migrants were rescued from a boat that sent a distress signal in an...
Greece said on Tuesday it has secured an agreement with Germany and other EU states under which it will not be required to take back asylum seekers until a reformed European asylum system enters into force.
Under the arrangement, asylum...
Over 400 migrants have landed on the small island of Gavdos near Crete, a new entry point increasingly used by migrant smugglers in the past months, a Hellenic Coast Guard spokesperson said on Friday.
The migrants arrived in separate groups...
Greece is poised to enact a significant tightening of its framework on illegal immigrants, as a new draft law, presented yesterday to the cabinet by Minister of Immigration and Asylum Makis Voridis, is set to criminalize the illegal stay...
Over 2,200 people, including hundreds of children, have perished in 2024 in the waters of the Mediterranean during their attempt to reach Europe, UNICEF said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The death toll and number of missing persons in the...
Greece's Coast Guard rescued more than 150 migrants in three separate incidents in the last 24 hours in the Aegean.
A woman was recovered dead from the sea area of Kos. According to the Hellenic Coast Guard, a woman was...
The number of asylum seekers in the European Union, Switzerland, and Norway went up by a significant 28 percent in the first half of 2023. This is as compared to the same period of the previous year, according to...
Two hotel owners allegedly involved in a human trafficking ring that brought migrants from Turkey to Greece were arrested on Friday by police on Rhodes with the assistance of the Protection of the Sea Borders Security Directorate, the police...
Greece has been coercing migrants into pushing fellow asylum seekers back to Turkey at Evros, a joint investigation by international media outlets alleged this week.
A joint investigation by the Guardian, Lighthouse Reports, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and ARD Report...
