Immigration

In an interview with SKAI TV on Sunday morning, Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that closed pre-departure migrant camps will soon begin their operation in Greece, for all those who enter the country but are not granted asylum status. Migrants...

Greek police busted a major group that was illegally smuggling migrants to other EU member states, by offering them fake travel documents. More specifically, the Security Office of the Central Port Authority of Piraeus along with a Greek Police's special...

Greek Minister of Citizen's Protection Michael Chrysochoides made a revelation on Wednesday which demonstrated the shocking levels of indifference many EU member states are evincing in regard to the ongoing refugee and migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Speaking during a...

A tragedy similar to what happened a few days ago in Essex, England, where 39 migrants from Asia were found dead in a truck, was avoided at the last minute in Xanthi, Greece on Monday morning. Following a routine police...

Official data on the numbers of new arrivals of refugees and migrants on the islands of the Northern Aegean in Greece was made public on Friday, November 1. A staggering 6,868 new migrant arrivals were recorded in the region of...

According to official data from the Greek Ministry of Citizen's Protection, a total of 795 new migrants and refugees arrived on Greek shores on Tuesday, October 29 and Wednesday, October 30, until 12 o'clock noon, local time. Nearly all the...

The Greek Coast Guard intervened in three separate incidents involving migrants and refugees in the Aegean Sea in the early hours of Tuesday, rescuing a total of 116 individuals. In the first case, a Coast Guard patrol vessel located a...

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Saturday strongly refuting the claims made by Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that Greece has shot at boats carrying refugees. ''We categorically reject today's statements by the Turkish Minister of...

A vessel of Frontex, the EU's coast guard and border agency, located and rescued this weekend eighty-one migrants and refugees that were on a dinghy in the sea region off the coast of Samos. At the same time, more than...

The new bill laying out the procedures by which refugees and migrants are either granted asylum status or are deported came before the Greek Parliament late Monday night. The aim of the new bill is to significantly reduce the time...