FRONTEX

An Italian Frontex ship rescued 66 refugees and migrants stranded on the islet of Paspargos, near Chios on Friday morning, adding to the 200 people found earlier today during four separate search and rescue operations near Lesvos. The boat with...

Greek authorities on Tuesday sent 17 irregular migrants back to Turkey from the Aegean island of Lesvos, in accordance with the EU-Turkey agreement. The group included two Pakistanis, three Iraqis, seven Algerians, one Afghan, one Ghanian, one Malian, one...

Some 43 refugees were rescued late Monday by a Frontex patrol vessel in the sea region southeast of Samos island amidst strong winds and difficult sea. A total of 273 migrants and refugees arrived on the Greek islands in the last four days...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that the management of the refugee and migration flows should not be considered a problem just for the first reception countries or a problem of the Balkan route countries, but  be considered a...

Greece's coast guard embarked on a search and rescue operation of a distressed migrant boat off the shores of the Greek island of Samos Tuesday morning, the AP reports. The operation commenced following a distress call from a migrant on the boat to...

UNHCR European Director Vincent Cochetel, speaking with British newspaper The Guardian on Wednesday, said that the withdrawal of Turkish liaison officers from Greek islands following the failed coup on July 15 has brought the EU-Turkey refugee pact to a...

Two boats carrying 52 migrants and refugees were collected early Sunday morning off the island of Lesvos by two Frontex vessels. The migrants were then transported to the Mytilene Port to be registered at the Moria hotspot. After Sunday's arrivals, the...

It seems as though Italy is the new frontline in the latest developments of the migrant crisis. Following the EU deal with Turkey in April it appears that Greece has been receiving less arrivals of illegal trafficking across the Aegean...

The full revision of the EU border agency FRONTEX’s mandate and its renaming to European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) to allow for a better and faster safeguarding of the EU's external borders was discussed in the session of...

British newspaper Daily Mail cast the spotlight on the epic route that hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean are taking to enter the European Union through Greece. The newspaper's reportage, titled "Now Hundreds of Migrants From the Caribbean Fly...