FRONTEX

Viewed as a hostile place for immigrants as the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party grew in popularity, Greece is working with outside organizations and NGOs in an attempt to manage an overwhelming crush of refugees. Nearly 1.15 million immigrants are in...

Overcrowded inflatable boats of questionable stability carry every day downtrodden citizens of other countries to countries which are considered to be the “Land of Promise.” Many of them get lost at sea and others arrive to some land. Everyone...

Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the country continues to be so overwhelmed by illegal immigrants that other European Union countries should take some of them. He told BBC’s Hardtalk program that undocumented immigrants in Greece were “a huge...

Syrian refugees fleeing a civil war in their country and hoping for sanctuary in Greece are often faced with hostility and anti-immigrant attitudes, the Wall Street Journal reported in an extensive article. The vast majority of more than one million...

Greece has finished construction of a fence along the 12.5-km (8-mile) stretch of its land border with Turkey to curb illegal migration, the Athens News Agency said citing company-contractor of the project. The construction of the razor-wire-topped 13-foot-tall fence took...

A fence along the Greek-Turkish border designed to prevent illegal immigration through the northern region of river Evros, will be up and fully operational by the end of the month, authorities have told the newspaper Kathimerini. More than half of...

Already drowning in debt and struggling through a crushing economic crisis worsened by austerity measures demanded by international lenders, Greece is being overwhelmed with an inundation of illegal immigrants despite an ongoing crackdown to round up those who don't...

ATHENS – Mayor George Kamminis said he is prepared for the capital city to host a holding center for illegal immigrants, one of a number to be set up in Greece to help stem the influx of people fleeing...

Illegal immigrants are always a key-issue in the social and political life of Greece. The country's borders are too long, the guards few and the authorities cannot deal with the problem and thus, hundreds of illegal immigrants from Pakistan, Iran,...

The Greek Coastal Guard has intercepted a suspicious boat off the coast of Astakos, in southwestern Greece. The boat was carrying 40 male illegal immigrants. Both the captain and the immigrants have been arrested. Although Greek border police and Frontex...