On Thursday, 140 Iraqi nationals will voluntarily return home on a charter flight, the Migration & Asylum Ministry announced. One requirement is that they must be tested for the novel coronavirus before the…
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Women in Lesvos protested against the NGO’s and illegal immigrants that have significantly changed life on the island since 2015. “We are here for our children and for our homes,” said women…
The Greek government has begun giving €2,000 to asylum seekers located on various Aegean islands, to incentivise them to go back to their home countries. The Voluntary Return & Reintegration Programme (AVRR),…
Europe cannot ‘fail twice on migration’ and must avoid a repeat of the 2015 crisis, Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas stated. He added that the bloc cannot have similar scenes…
Illegal migratory flows to the Greek islands is down 83% compared to 2019. Turkey’s escalating aggression against Greece culminates at this stage in the decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the opening ceremony of the first of ten high-speed boats donated to the Coast Guard by the social supply company “SYN-ENOSIS” of the Hellenic Shipowners’ Association.…
Authorities on the Aegean island of Lesvos have put 27 undocumented migrants who reached the island on Sunday in a dinghy from Turkey, into quarantine. The boat reached the village of Thermis…
36 illegal immigrants – 15 men, 10 women and 11 children of Iranian and Afghan descent – were rescued on Saturday night by the Greek Coast Guard on the northern coast of…
Some 1,843 refugees from the island of Lesvos who were provided with documents of free movement, departed from the island from June 5 to June 25, officials announced on Thursday. Of those,…
Greece’s maritime borders will be monitored 24 hours a day with the installation of a new surveillance system, Ethnos reported. Specifically, 35 surveillance sensor stations will be installed in locations around the…
Greece is “always open to dialogue but will not enter into talks under duress nor assist the legalisation of continuous violations of legality on Turkey’s part,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said during…
At the mercy of thieving illegal immigrants who have looted estates, slaughtered animals and destroyed properties, are the inhabitants of Afalonas on the island of Lesvos. In April, a resident of the…
A man was seriously injured after a fierce clash took place in the Malakasa migrant camp last night. According to information from Security News, the incident was between men of Afghan origin.…
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou underlined the need for greater support from the European Union for unaccompanied minors. Sakellaropoulou called on EU member-states…
Referring to a Frontex report, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi stated that Greece is not currently the main gateway for migration into the European Union, ANT news reported. Based on the…
The process of relocating unaccompanied children and adolescents from the Greek islands to European countries will accelerate. Eight unaccompanied migrant children were transferred from the Greek islands to Ireland on Wednesday. The…
“The number one goal of vandals in Moria is its new colours. Ten times they will break it, a hundred times we will fix it.” This was the message by Makis Pavlellis,…
A total of 27 immigrants, nine men, nine women and nine children, mostly Africans, were on a boat that arrived on Wednesday morning south of the town of Mytilene on Lesvos island,…
A boat with a total of 36 illegal migrants, including nine men, seven women and twenty children, all reportedly from Syria, crossed into Lesvos, landing on a coast in the Thermi area…
The Greek Coast Guard has responded to reports that there was a delayed operation to rescue illegal immigrants who were on a boat on Saturday trying to arrive on the island of…