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EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos inaugurated on Wednesday the new building of the EU Regional Task Force in Catania, Sicily. Avramopoulos met with Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano and Frontex's executive director Fabrice Leggeri to discuss...

The European Union borders are vulnerable to terrorists using illegal migrant flows to enter as border guards are often unable to determine the identity or nationality of migrants, Frontex says. In a report just released, Europe's border guard says that,...

Thousands of asylum requests have been submitted to the Greek authorities from the side of the refugees, so that they would not be led back to Turkey. Mega Channel reported, that out of 3,000 refugees who have reached Mytilene, 2,850...

Government spokesperson on migration Giorgos Kyritsis said Greece is preparing for violent riots when the mass deportation of refugees and migrants goes in effect on Monday. The agreement between the European Union and Turkey to be implemented as of April...

Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas had a series of meetings with officials representing countries affected by the refugee crisis during the UNHCR Conference on Refugees in Geneva. Mouzalas met with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi,...

A European Council report on protection from Islamic terrorism says that there are security gaps making Europe vulnerable to Islamic State attacks. The report was completed on March 1, weeks before the ISIS terrorist hits in Brussels that left 31...

The European Union border agency Frontex on Monday asked EU member-states and other countries linked to Schengen to send 1,500 police officers and 50 experts in readmissions and returns to reinforce in Greece. The aim is to support Greece...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appointed on Friday Dutch economist Maarten Verwey to act as the EU Coordinator of the refugee crisis in Greece, according to a Commission press release. The EU will provide Greece at short notice with the...

The responsibilities of Europe as well as Greece for the so far failed attempt to manage the refugee crisis were stressed by Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas during a speech at the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg presented the three parts of the organization’s operation in the Aegean on Thursday, during a press conference in Brussels ahead of his meeting with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker. The first part is the enlargement of...