Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the EU to speed up the return of illegal migrants denied asylum during a Brussels summit on March 20, 2025. Highlighting the need for a new “safe countries” list, he aims to bolster Greece’s deportation efforts, a topic echoing the 2015-2016 crisis when over a million crossed its borders.
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Greece’s road tourism experienced a 17.5% increase in September, with 1.5 million visitors, according to INSETE data. For the first nine months of 2024, road arrivals reached 10.3 million, a 14.5% rise from the previous year. The Promahonas border crossing with Bulgaria was the busiest, accounting for 2.7 million arrivals, reflecting a strong recovery in tourism overall.
According to preliminary figures collected by Frontex, the total number of illegal border-crossings in 2021…
Greece is ready to extend its coastal boundaries in the west of the country from…
Athens has told the EU it does not have the capability to systematically screen the…