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Greek Immigration Minister Says Left Waging War Against FRONTEX
Greek Immigration Minister Mitarakis recalled that one year ago Greece protected the EU from a breach of the border using FRONTEX troops.
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EU Border Force FRONTEX Finds No Evidence Yet of Refugee Pushbacks in Greece
Frontex, the border and coast guard agency of the European Union issued a response to media allegations on Thursday that illegal pushbacks of refugees had been taking place on the land and sea border between Greece and Turkey.
This came...
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Frontex in Evros: United European Shield Deployed at Greek-Turkish Border
Frontex, the Border and Coast Guard Agency of the European Union, has been deployed in full since Friday morning in the Greek region of Evros, next to the Greek-Turkish border, which is also the Union's external border.
Hundreds of police...
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Frontex Accepts Greek Request, Pledges Immediate Border Support for Greece
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex, announced on Monday that it has accepted Greece's request for extraordinary assistance to guard its Eastern land and sea border.
“Given the quickly developing situation at the Greek external...
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Greece Officially Requests Further FRONTEX Assistance to Tackle Migrant Crisis
The Greek Coast Guard sent a request to the European Border and Coast Guard agency FRONTEX on Monday to send further assistance to Greece, amid the increasing migrant influx from across the Aegean Sea.
More specifically, Greece requested additional thermal cameras, radars...
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Frontex Saves Sixty Migrants in the Sea off Samos, Greece
Sixty migrants who were trying to make their way to Greece as passengers aboard a dinghy were saved near the village of Agios Constantinos on the island of Samos on Wednesday morning.
According to local authorities, a Frontex vessel was...
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87 Migrants in Inflatable Dinghies Intercepted by Frontex
On Friday, the Frontex EU border agency reported that they intercepted 87 migrants off the shores of the Greek island of Lesvos.
Reports say that there were two separate rescue operations.
The first operation occurred earlier this morning when a Frontex...
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Eastern Med Sees 30% Rise in Migrant Arrivals: FRONTEX
New data from the EU's border protection agency claim 7,900 migrants entered Europe through the Eastern Mediterranean route in the first quarter of 2018 -- 30 percent more than in the same period of 2017.
FRONTEX, in a new report,...
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FRONTEX: Migratory Flows to Greece Down in January
The number of irregular migrants to enter Greece in January dropped 43 percent compared to the previous month, as there were 1,850 recorded arrivals, FRONTEX - the EU's border security agency - said.
According to the agency, Syrians and Iraqis were...
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Frontex Vessel Rescues Refugees in the Sea Region of Kastellorizo
A Frontex vessel located and rescued 35 migrants and refugees on Tuesday, in a dinghy off the coasts of Ro islet near the island of Kastellorizo.
The migrants and refugees had left for the opposite Turkish coasts.
(Source: ANA-MPA)
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Frontex Chief Meets With Top Greek Officials on Migrant Smuggling
Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri is meeting today (Thursday) with top Greek officials to discuss the issue of migrant smuggling in the Aegean.
Leggeri is meeting with Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas, Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis, Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas and...
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Mouzalas: Greek Government has Asked Frontex to Guard Northern Border
The Greek government has asked Frontex, the European Union's border agency, to guard Greece’s northern borders in a request filed in September, Greek Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday, confirming a report...
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Frontex to Guard FYROM, Albania Borders With Greece, German Mag says
Frontex is sending guards to patrol Greece's borders with FYROM and Albania in case Turkey starts sending boat loads of migrants to Greece, a Spiegel report says.
According to the German magazine, the threat of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Frontex Rescues 66 Refugees and Migrants on Islet off Chios
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...
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Italy Replaces Greece as New Frontline for Migrants Entering EU, Frontex Says
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...