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Greece
Europe Not Keeping Bargain on EU Relocation Program as 2,500 Pakistanis Go Missing
Greece was critical of the European Union on Monday due to its failure to fulfill commitments that would ease pressure on Athens as foreseen by a burden-sharing deal signed a year ago. Speaking to the Greek state broadcaster, Migration...
Greece
EU Relocation Program: 3,493 People Relocated from Greece
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) presented data for the EU resettlement program for this week that showed that 82 asylum seekers, including 11 unaccompanied children, had left Greece for Finland. IOM said that 42 of these people, mostly...
Greece
UNHCR Chief Wants Refugee Relocation Program to be Amped Up
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on Wednesday to discuss the refugee flow and administration of the crisis in Greece. Grandi called for the EU scheme to relocate...
Greece
Dimitris Avramopoulos: Imperative to Speed Up the Refugee Relocation Program
Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday it is imperative to speed up the refugee relocation program from Greece. His statements were made after the end of the meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels.
“There’s no...
Greece
Refugees at Idomeni Showing Greater Interest in Relocation Programs, UNHCR Staff Reports
UNHCR staff at the refugee camp in Idomeni, near the border crossing between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), on Monday reported that the refugees were showing a greater interest in the EU relocation programs than...
Greece
Greek Migration Min: EU Refugee Relocation Program Undermined by Racism
Greece's Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said that the European Union program for refugee relocation is hindered by some countries that show signs of racism.
Mouzalas told Reuters that the EU must not cater to countries that want to pick and...
Diplomacy
Number of Migrants Rises in Greece as EU Fails in Relocation Efforts
More than five thousand refugees and migrants came to Greece during the first sixty-three days of 2019, according to the most recent data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
A total of 3,634 individuals reached the Greek...
Economy
'Comprehensive Solution' for Greek Program in April, Greek PM Tsipras Says
Greece successfully pushed for the insertion of a special reference to action for fighting unemployment in the final conclusions of the European Council, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in a press conference after the EU summit on Friday. He...
Greece
Avramopoulos: EU Member-States Must Speed Up Pace of Relocation
Greece is fulfilling its obligations in managing migration and now it is time for EU member-states to show solidarity and accelerate the rate of relocation, EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday after a meeting with Greek...
Greece
First Refugee Relocation from Greece to Luxembourg on Wednesday
The first relocation of refugees from Greece to another European Union country will take place on Wednesday morning, when 30 refugees will depart from Athens International Airport to take up residence in Luxembourg. They are the first six families...
Greece
Hundreds of Child Refugees Moved from Greece to Germany
More than 1,000 migrants and refugees, including 612 children, have been relocated from Greece to Germany over the last several months following an agreement between the two countries.
According to a joint statement released by the Greek authorities and the...
Greece
European Court of Justice Slams Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic for Refusing Refugees
The European Court of Justice (ECJ), the supreme court of the European Union, ruled that three EU member states have breached their obligations under EU law by refusing to take a number of refugees who are stranded in Greece...
Greece
Greek Cabinet Adopts Emergency Measures for Islands Awash in Migrants
The Greek cabinet decided on Monday to go ahead with two ambitious programs which aim to ease the burden on the Eastern Aegean islands due to the increased influx of refugees and migrants who are coming to Greece through...
Greece
Portugal's Interior Minister Visits Refugee Center in Athens (video)
Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Dimitris Vitsas, accompanied by visiting Portuguese Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita, paid a joint visit to the Eleonas refugee reception center, located in central Athens, on Tuesday.
Cabrita, who is in Greece on an official visit, traveled...
Greece
We Must Reduce Migrant, Refugee Pressures, Says Greek Minister
The numbers of people in migrant reception camps must be decreased, Greek Migration Policy Minister Dimitris Vitsas said on Monday, referring to the northern Aegean islands bearing the brunt of the migrant influx.
Vitsas, speaking to the Athens News Agency radio...