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European Union interior ministers discussed the implementation of the EU-Turkey action plan during their meeting in Brussels on Thursday, Greek Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas after the meeting. The minister said his EU counterparts also finally discussed after...

"We welcome that Frontex and NATO reached a common understanding today on the modalities of their cooperation in the Aegean Sea," High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy Federica Mogherini and EU Commissioner for Migration,...

The Balkan route through which refugees can cross to northern Europe will close and migrants coming from Turkey will end up trapped in Greece, an Austrian newspaper says. Der Standard claims it has seen a rough draft of Monday's official statement...

Five German police officers with two German ships, acting under FRONTEX, are trying to track down traffickers and save the live of refugees in the area of Samos island. The patrol ships of the German Coast Guard that normally supervise...

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg clarified on Tuesday that third country nationals who have set sail from Turkey in a bid to illegally reach Greek territory will be returned to the Turkish coast once rescued, according to an agreement...

"The main mission of NATO in the Aegean will be surveillance," Alternate Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Toskas on Sunday said in an interview with newspaper "Avghi." "NATO will be responsible for the surveillance and observation of migratory flows and...

No European country could have dealt with the size of the refugee flows that Greece had to deal with, Greek Alternate Foreign Minister for European Affairs Nikos Xydakis said in an interview with Agence Europe news agency. Asked to comment...

The Greek government has asked to have an explicit commitment from Europe’s leaders that the borders will not be sealed off prior to the emergency EU summit meeting on March 6. The focus of this summit will be the...

Greece's Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that if the plan of the Visegrad states -- the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia -- goes through and Balkan countries seal off their borders, his country would end up facing “a...

The hotspot of Chios has officially commenced its operation as 70 refugees arrived and registered today. Executives of UNHCR led the refugees inside the building in order to register and identify them by handing them numbered bracelets and bottled water....