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The current tense climate must not be allowed to affect the EU-Turkey Statement on migration, which must remain in force, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Thursday. The Commissioner made the statement while visiting...

Nineteen Syrians who were refused the continuation of asylum status were relocated in accordance with the EU-Turkey agreement. More specifically, six men, three women and 10 children were transferred from the airport of Mytilene to the airport of Adana on...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed serious concerns about the recent agreement between the European Union and Turkey, pointing to what he termed “a contradiction at the heart of the agreement,”...

Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm, has provided its own analysis of the EU-Turkey immigration agreement and the overall one of the analysis is one of doubt and skepticism over the ability and commitment of the signatories to enforce the...

Greece has asked the European Union to examine the possibility of fully suspending its customs union with Turkey, as Athens launched a new diplomatic offensive against Turkey’s repeated and ongoing provocations in the Mediterranean. In a letter to the European...

Turkey plans to leverage its millions of Syrian refugees for money and other concessions at a summit in Europe next week as Greece faces criticism for its implementation of the migrant deal signed with Ankara in March 2016. A report...

The recent increase in the flow of migrants and refugees doesn't mean that the EU-Turkey deal on migration has collapsed, according to the Migration Policy minister. "We are making huge diplomatic efforts to preserve the EU-Turkey agreement," minister Yiannis Mouzalas...

The European Commission claims that the bloc's migrant agreement with Turkey is working well, but that more effort is needed to speed asylum applications. EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Wednesday that "the EU-Turkey statement continues to work and deliver...

In agreement with the EU-Turkey migrant deal, 60 rejected asylum seekers in Greece have been returned to Turkey. According to dailysabah.com, the 60 migrants had snuck into Greece from Turkey in efforts to try to get to other European countries. There...

Hundreds of refugees, migrants and supporters gathered on Saturday on Lesvos to protest against the European Union-Turkey deal that calls for the return of asylum seekers in Greece back to Turkey. The rally was in celebration of the international day...

It is imperative to have a technical-level agreement before the Eurogroup meeting on December 5 and discuss measures for debt relief by the end of the year, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and French President Francois Hollande both stated in agreement...

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...

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Friday warned that EU-Turkey deal must be kept, otherwise the neighboring country would unleash waves of migrants to Greece. Avramopoulos spoke with President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos stressing that the European Union-Ankara...

The mayor of Lesvos is speaking out about the dire needs of the island in coping with the flood of migrants that are living in overcrowded reception camps. Mayor Spyros Galinos recently spoke to RT about his concern with the...

Greece will be faced with an unprecedented wave of refugees and migrants if the European Union-Turkey agreement collapses, said Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas. Mouzalas gave a press conference on Tuesday morning in the presence of the head of the...